Lunch

Although the recipe calls for chicken, you can serve this nutrient-dense cabbage slaw with any protein you like.

The only thing better than pimiento cheese dip? Melted pimiento cheese dip, laced with chopped pickles for a little zip.

Serve the shrimp on toast to soak up the delicious pickling liquid.

For a hash with plenty of crisp texture, cook it over moderately high heat scraping and folding in the browned bits from the bottom of the pan as it cooks.

This recipe gives you yet another excuse to keep a package of puff pastry in the freezer.

This is the time of year to try all different kinds of garlic--spring garlic, young garlic with unformed cloves, garlic scapes. Use any of them in this vegetable-packed egg drop soup recipe.

There are all kinds of radishes available at the markets in spring--use any shape or color that looks good to you.

Marinated white anchovies bear little resemblance to the pungent salted brown ones packed in oil. They're plump, vinegary, tender, and addictive when paired with the crisp frisee and chewy bread in this sandwich.

Here's a skillet hash browns recipe that justifies the existence of that food processor grating disk (you didn't throw it out, we hope). If you don't have one, a box grater will do.

Bloomfield loves making this salad with black mint, which you'll find in spring and summer at farmers' markets.

This frittata is lightened by using only half the egg yolks of traditional recipes.

Use your favorite low-fat turkey or chicken sausage in this slimmed-down version of the Italian sandwich classic.

Be sure to balance bold notes. In this pulled-back panino, Kuziemko uses a sharp provolone to cut the fat and the slightly sweet flavor of the copper, and honey to temper the spicy-bitter broccoli rabe pesto.

You can slather pretty much anything on these flexible Scandinavian open-face sandwiches.

Slaw doesn't go with this fried chicken sandwich, it goes on the sandwich, along with a healthy dose of spicy mayo.

Topping these fresh blini-like pancakes with smoked salmon would make an ideal appetizer for a party.

Meatless doesn't mean dainty. When making a veggie-centric sandwich like this roasted eggplant recipe, load up on aggressive flavors and contrasting textures, and be sure to add something substantial to sink your teeth into.

It's not traditional, but we love the heat that fresh ginger adds to the salsa that accompanies this brown rice and beans recipe.