This shockingly stunning chilled soup–not to be confused with gazpacho, mind you–has ample oomph to compensate for lackluster tomatoes. But when made with in-season heirlooms? Wowsa.

Warm Chicken with Green Beans and Chard
Veggies from the garden or greenmarket are cooked ever so gently, then tossed with a mild vinaigrette and gilded with chicken. Summer at its simplest.
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Grilled Greek Chicken
Fresh herbs, a squeeze of lemon, and a foolproof (and fun to say!) technique lend this grilled chicken its effusive Greek accent.
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Cedar Plank–Grilled Salmon
Imagine, if you can, a technique that imbues salmon with a touch of smoke yet ensures your pricey catch doesn’t slip through the grate. You’re welcome.
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Seven Greens Salad
Fresh from the farmers market, spring greens boast a flavor the likes of which you just can’t find shrink-wrapped in plastic.
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- 5 M
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Whole Roasted Onions
Plonk unpeeled onions on a baking sheet. Shove in oven. Come back later for achingly sweet, tender, oniony goodness. Accept accolades. See how easy that was?
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Pickled Spring Vegetables With Mustard-Seed Vinaigrette
This quick refrigerator pickle melds old-fashioned crunch via new-fangled ease.
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Roasted Strawberries
Whether you have unripe berries, overripe berries, or an abundance of the season’s sweetest, most fragrant berries, say hello to your sweetly sticky solution.
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Minted Fresh Peas
Clap of hands. Is there anything that screams spring more than these lightly buttered peas with a wee bit of cooling mint on top? We think not.
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Arugula, Fennel, and Orange Salad
This salad, bright with arugula, fennel, and orange, is everything you need for a light lunch or side. It’s peppery, sweet, licorice-y and oh-so-tempting.
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- 20 M
- 20 M
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Roasted Asparagus with Bay Leaves and Crispy Capers
For this radically simple recipe, stalks of spring-green asparagus, bay leaves, and capers are tossed in olive oil and blasted in the oven. Gotta love it.
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Carrot Soup with Chicken and Thyme
The color of happiness, yes? But what’s even more stunning about this soup than its vibrant hue and sweet taste is just how easily and inexpensively it comes together.
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Steamed Veggies in Parchment Parcels
A savvy, sophisticated, eat-your-veggies strategy that works its stealthy charms on kids and adults alike. You’re welcome.
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Salt-Baked Red Snapper | Lubina a la Sel
Bury a whole snapper in a heap of wet salt, shove it in the oven, and forget about it. Your reward for so little effort? Moistest fish ever.
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- 1 H
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Moroccan Spiced Salmon
Try to resist these stunning salmon fillets, which exude a come hitherness thanks to the lilt of citrus and a beguiling blend of chili, cumin, and cinnamon.
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- 15 M
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Tangerine and Beet Salad
Offer up this tangerine and beet salad recipe–all bright and sunny yellow–in the middle of a dismal winter day, and you’ll be hailed as a kitchen hero, nay, savior.
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- 1 H
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Herb-Marinated Olives
Those requisite olives that you plonk on the coffee table before company comes just got more respectable–but no more troublesome. Of course, no one else needs to know that last part…
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Oven-Roasted Rainbow Swiss Chard
Roasting rainbow swiss chard is a treat during cooler weather when the leaves are no longer at their peak. A bit of olive oil is all you need.
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Grilled Broccoli or Broccolini
Go on, toss your broccoli on the grill, why don’t you? It’ll take on a rather beguilingly earthy, smoky quality that’s swell on its own or as a sidekick for grilled meat.
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Mango-Banana Salsa
A mango banana salsa recipe? It may sound odd, but with its mix of fruit, chiles, and onions, it’s sublime with fish tacos, chicken, even tortilla chips.
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