Lettuce

We ever-so-slightly updated a hippie classic.

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

Cooking bacon in the oven on a sheet tray is so hands-off, so splatter-free, and so easy, it just might convince you to eat a lot more bacon in the future.

You’re going to get what seems like a lot of dressing from this wedge salad recipe, but all those crevices in the iceberg lettuce will use it up.

Eat standing up, ideally over the sink.

In case you were wondering, yes, it must be Hellmann’s.

Or any greens, because we know you haaaate kale.

Ground turkey is hardly the stuff of flavor fireworks, but turkey sausage, preseasoned and ready to cook, tends to have great flavor right out of the package.

Maybe you’ve never thought to cook romaine before, but just think of it like any other leafy green and give it a try.

From arugula to watercress, we've got you covered.

Forget chicken salad, we want to use our rotisserie chicken for lettuce wraps.

Tender and crisp greens never looked so good as in these fresh and healthy recipes.

We call this a hand salad because lettuce and dip just doesn’t sound like nearly as much fun.

Using pecans as a nut butter in the dressing and salt-roasted on top lends an earthy note to this bright spring salad.

Yes, we compiled 75 recipes in honor of our favorite color of food.

Toasty pita chips, crisp romaine, and cool cucumbers make for a Middle Eastern–style salad that comes together on the fly.

This rice dish is based on one of the most famous Persian polos (pilaf), known as sabzi polo.

Nutritional yeast, silken tofu, and capers mimic the anchovies and egg yolks in a classic Caesar. Genius!

Like a wedge salad, except easy and you can eat. it. with. your. hands.

Think of this recipe as your favorite bacony wedge salad reimagined as an additive party snack.

Sprouting and frying the sunflower seeds completely transforms their flavor. But just using salted, roasted sunflower seeds would also work fine. This recipe is from Staplehouse, America's Best New Restaurant 2016.

Thinly sliced raw cauliflower takes center stage in this salad, tossed in a bright, limey dressing and dusted with nutritional yeast.

We like sandwiches that send juices running down to our elbows, which is why we insist on dressing the lettuce. 

The ultimate make-your-own-BLT-sandwich spread is coming soon to a beach house near you, and it's stocked with the summer's best produce.