Vegetable

Eggs become a silky, creamy sauce when they're tossed with hot pasta. Here, leeks add a nice spring touch to the traditional Roman carbonara dish.

This hue beef noodle soup recipe gets a huge boost of flavor from shrimp paste and fish sauce.

The gazpacho was perfect—garlicky and spicy with an ideal texture. The recipe isn't exactly, "Throw it in the blender and hit liquefy." Although, that is exactly what I did, just after I grilled and chopped everything.

The classic orange gourd reigns supreme in this collection of 15 heavenly treats.

This recipe has several immediate advantages. It's simple; it requires minimal preparation apart from stemming and halving the little tomatoes; most of the time is devoted to roasting rather than prep (allowing more time to test-drive the dinner wine); and it calls for ingredients that I am likely to already have on hand.