Nate Appleman

While pork rib chops would be fine for this recipe, thin shoulder steaks or blade chops have more fat, meaning they’ll stay ultrajuicy even after a hard sear.

What’s a honeynut squash, you ask? It looks like a miniature butternut squash and has sweet, firm flesh that stands up to any cooking method.

For this roasted salmon recipe, finely chopping the walnuts, preserved lemon, and golden raisins gets them into every mouthful.

Olive oil–packed tuna can get pricey; we also recommend using deboned canned sardines for this pasta recipe.

Poaching eggs right in the stew is so obviously genius, we are still trying to figure out why we didn’t think of this recipe sooner.

Remember that thing about not putting acid on raw meat? This charred chicken recipe doesn’t abide by that rule, and now that we've tried it, we don’t, either.