Healthyish

These pickles are extra salty and crunchy. They’re best paired with fatty cuts of meat but also good to munch on by themselves.

Serve this light snack warm, room temp, or cold; just make sure you give it a generous dose of acid and salt.

The smoky and sweet pineapple flesh can be scooped out and added to salsas, spooned over shortcakes or ice cream, or served alongside grilled pork, chicken, or fish.

This isn’t the thick harissa that resembles a paste. Treat it like your favorite barbecue sauce and smother grilled steak and chicken with it.

This is not your average side dish recipe: The broccoli is slathered in a spiced yogurt sauce, then grilled for even more flavor.

No, you don’t have to tear the zucchini with your hands, but it makes for a cool presentation—and we all know it’s way more fun than using a knife.

Pro tip: Make a pot of rice to soak up the extra dressing in this snapper recipe. It's too good to go to waste.

Use this hot sauce as a condiment or mix in additional aromatics like grated garlic and ginger to make a marinade for meat.

Prepare your pita chips.

Roasting the eggplants at a high heat will make the flesh very tender while making the skin a little crispy.

Central New York State is known for sandwiches stuffed with juicy skewered meat marinated in Italian dressing; these are tasty enough to serve straight up, but we wouldn’t stop you from putting them on soft Italian bread, either.

Crushing and smashing green beans and cucumbers sounds crazy, but it creates nooks and crannies to soak up as much umami-rich miso sauce as possible. And this is a dressing you'll want a lot of.

Serve this tart and earthy chutney with grilled meats, samosas, or your favorite Indian curry.

A simple summer side dish that goes with everything you’re grilling.

A delicious alternative to chimichurri to go alongside your grilled steak (or whatever!).

The dry rub on these scallops can go on pretty much everything. (And you'll want it on pretty much everything).

A kicky chile-lime dressing wakes up your weeknight salmon.

While this cooling yogurt sauce recipe is welcome alongside spicy foods, it is also amazing slathered on flatbreads or spooned over basmati rice.

This toss-it-all-in-a-baking-dish chicken dinner is the hands-off summer recipe we all need.

Cooking with tea adds subtle flavor to recipes both savory and sweet.

This fresh, simple summer dessert recipe gets a slight twist with addition of tea. If you’re not a fan of Earl Grey, try it with chamomile, matcha, or jasmine.

Lapsang, a black tea from China, may taste too strong and smoky when you sip it on its own, but it will mellow out as it marinates with the fish.

Just ask the man who's owned a cactarium for 36 years.

The origins of this recipe are incredibly simple—leftover rice with hot water, broth, or tea poured over. We started there, then kept going. All of the finishing touches (ginger, furikake, and nori) make this feel less like a snack and more like a balanced dish.