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This winter salad with peak season bitter greens, salami, and crispy chickpeas is hearty enough on its own, but not so over-the-top that you can’t also pair it with pasta for dinner.

This creamy kabocha squash with a punchy ginger-soy dressing makes a case for steaming over roasting any day of the week. 

This is a spicy slaw, but charred scallions give it deep, toasty flavor. 

Crispy, creamy, chewy, bright, and about a dozen other wonderful (see?) adjectives apply to this easy dinner.

Gluten-free meatballs are as easy as adding cooled cooked rice instead of bread to ground meat.

Choose your mushrooms carefully: Crimini and white button will never get as crispy as oyster or maitakes.

We took inspiration from picadillo, a saucy spiced ground meat dish packed with flavor, and thought, Why not give tofu a similar treatment?

It’s astonishing how much scallion flavor you get in these noodles. A garnish of crunchy fried scallion slices takes it wonderfully over the top.

A velvety, light and fluffy white bean dip with sizzled garlic oil on top.

This dish is all about the sweet and salty soy paste, which balances out the bitterness of the broccoli.

A soul-warming, cozy but complex toddy to get you through the cold winter nights.

An herbaceous, zippy pesto to serve with crudités or whatever else inspires you. 

Swapping tahini for the mayonnaise that you typically see in classic Caesar salads keeps things creamy but adds nutty earthiness to the tangy mustard and funk from Parmesan cheese.

Colorful, crunchy, and incredibly easy, you can pull this bright Indian dish together in 20 minutes or less.

This is exactly what we want to drink when fall rolls around—an apple brandy cocktail with citrus, maple, and baking spice notes.

The flavors in this sandwich get more delicious and concentrated as it sits, so assemble it in the morning and take it with you for the perfect lunch in the afternoon.

This creamy, spicy-sweet dip pairs with leftover rotisserie chicken, jammy eggs, cucumber spears, and roasted sweet potatoes for the perfect desk-friendly lunch.

This recipe is high-favor and low-maintenance, perfect for all your end-of-summer entertaining.

This Kung Pao recipe stays very close to the original but includes seasonal peppers.

Starting your grilled cheese (slathered in mayo, obviously) in a cold nonstick skillet, then slowly and gently heating it up is the trick to achieving evenly golden brown, supremely crisp exteriors, with molten cheesy interiors.

Chaas, an Indian buttermilk drink, is reimagined here as a creamy salad dressing seasoned with mustard seeds, cumin seeds, curry leaves, and dried red chiles.

Simple braised greens with sake and white wine—the perfect side to, let’s say, a rack of sticky miso ribs.

Not just scrambled eggs, but buttery, soft-scrambled eggs with tzatziki and a spice sprinkle that you never knew you needed.

This make-anytime meal is your satisfying new culinary staple.