Weeknight Meals

Smoky bacon, crunchy shredded lettuce, and an addictively zesty dressing—what’s not to like?

If rib eye is a little fancy for your weeknight, try hanger or skirt steaks.

This all-purpose sauce will go with any protein and doubles as a great dressing for summer salads.

Starting the chicken in cold, well-seasoned liquid ensures that the meat will stay very tender as it cooks while absorbing lots of flavor. It’s the opposite of every dry, bland, sad poached chicken recipe you’ve ever tried.

Easy, flavorful, and healthy. A poached chicken miracle!

Pro move: Save the spicy broth and sprinkle with some chopped cilantro or scallions to sip on later.

Great with any mushroom you can find (crimini, white button, etc.), but excellent with some morels, porcinis, or chanterelles into the mix.

This cold noodle salad can be customized however you want, but it's all about that sesame dressing.

This colorful cold noodle salad is infinitely riffable.

This colorful cold noodle salad is infinitely riffable and superbly delicious, thanks to a big-flavor dressing you’re gonna want to have on hand all the time.

Even sausage can dry out when overcooked; we like browning them over direct heat, then moving them to a cooler spot to finish cooking.

Board dressing: take all of those flavorful juices that accumulate when the meat rests off your cutting board and pour them back over the meat, where they belong.

This colorful cold noodle salad can be changed up however you want, it's all about that tangy, umami-wonderful miso dressing.

Don’t trust anyone who doesn’t love a chicken cutlet.

Pro tip: Make a pot of rice to soak up the extra dressing in this snapper recipe. It's too good to go to waste.

Roasting the eggplants at a high heat will make the flesh very tender while making the skin a little crispy.

Crushing and smashing green beans and cucumbers sounds crazy, but it creates nooks and crannies to soak up as much umami-rich miso sauce as possible. And this is a dressing you'll want a lot of.

The dry rub on these scallops can go on pretty much everything. (And you'll want it on pretty much everything).

A kicky chile-lime dressing wakes up your weeknight salmon.

This toss-it-all-in-a-baking-dish chicken dinner is the hands-off summer recipe we all need.

The origins of this recipe are incredibly simple—leftover rice with hot water, broth, or tea poured over. We started there, then kept going. All of the finishing touches (ginger, furikake, and nori) make this feel less like a snack and more like a balanced dish.

Sabich, a popular Israeli street food, is a pita-busting combination of a bunch of great appetizers.

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

No tough strips of dry meat here.