Leafy Greens

Our favorite salad doesn't require a complicated dressing or a bunch of prepped veggies—just cold, crisp lettuce, salt and pepper, and lemon and oil.

Roasting beets over high heat yields charred skin—a nice balance with the sweet flesh.

Greens you can take on-the-go.

On New Year's Day, Julia Sullivan makes these collard greens with a side of black-eyed peas for good luck.

Savoy. Red. Green. Napa. Do you know all the different types of cabbage? And what they're good for? You best brush up.

This method guarantees perfectly-cooked, crispy-skinned salmon every time. We promise.

This warm, comforting soup is just the thing for a random Tuesday night, and it’s cold outside, and you don’t want to put too much effort into cooking.

Yes, fried rice for breakfast counts if there's an egg (or 3) in it!

This sweet-sharp vinaigrette pairs well with the bitter chicories, but feel free to use another sturdy green if you like.

Even steaming can overcook chicken. Keep the heat and steam gentle and remove it when it’s just firm and has a bit of spring when pressed.

Your most essential larb recipe: a spicy minced meat meant to be eaten with your hands along with herbs, sticky rice, and various vegetables.

Look for dandelion greens that aren't much longer than a pencil, with waif-like stems. If you can't find them, swap in chopped chard, or spinach, or whatever greens happen to look best at your market.

If this brings back memories of the “house salad” from that Italian-American restaurant you grew up eating at, then we consider our jobs done.

Be sure to get heavy color on the bread and sausage. Thank us later.

This tahini dressing recipe goes especially well with bitter greens but can also be paired with sweeter lettuces such as Little Gem or romaine.

Our favorite and best method of making pasta—the same one the pros use in restaurants—is one in which the pasta finishes cooking in a glossy sauce made by emulsifying cheese into the pasta cooking liquid. It’s so easy and good it might change your life (or if not your entire life, then definitely your weeknight pasta game).

The most substantial lunch bowl of your life.

Think of this as a salad sandwiched between two slices of bread.

We ever-so-slightly updated a hippie classic.

Oh, the joys of late-season fruit

Chicken breasts, you've been redeemed.

Lose the mesclun and kick the kale. Your salad days are about to change thanks to the bittersweet and beautiful chicory family.

Our old friend kale salad pairs up with avocado for a sturdy, not sad, desk lunch.

Watch your back, baby spinach! Everybody's favorite crispy-crunchy lettuce is secretly a nutritional powerhouse.