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Summer’s best produce cooked into one vibrant, silky, flavor-packed dish.

Easy to make, impossible to stop eating.

With flash-seared squid, tomatoes, olives, parsley, and a tangy lemon vinaigrette.

Who says latkes have to be potato? Brussels bring a delicious cruciferousness.

Real cheddar cheese meets charred green chiles in our best recipe for queso. For extra points serve the molten dip with warmed tortilla chips.

Love a tuna melt? Meet your new favorite nachos—fast and filling all thanks to tinned fish.

Among the easiest appetizers ever.

Do you need heavy cream to make fettuccine Alfredo? Debatable. Will it be delicious? Undeniable.

Studded with sweet dates and crispy bacon, this easy salad makes an impressive dinner party side or satisfying lunch.

Crunchy and crowd-pleasing, this salad can be prepared in advance and customized to your heart’s content.

All you really need is melted butter and a hot oven to make perfectly pillowy popovers.

This nourishing soup comes together faster than you can say “sweater weather.”

Make the most of melon season with this simple and savory fruit salad.

This refreshing melon and cucumber salad works as a snack, starter, or side dish.

Bright and briny, this eight-ingredient seafood pasta is an Italian classic for good reason.

A simple trick gets silky-smooth results from canned chickpeas—no rinsing or overnight soaking required.

Blend a crisper drawer’s worth of salad greens (romaine, arugula, spinach, watercress, etc.) into this vibrant, surprising soup.

A buttery lattice dough enrobes mushrooms, herbs, and speck.

Using tater tots in chaat not only saves time, but gives you an extra crispy texture.

It only takes a handful of ingredients to turn a can of young green jackfruit into smoky, savory meatless “carnitas” to pile onto hearty vegetarian nachos.