Seven scoops of vegan banana ice cream with some small spoons tucked underneath.

Vegan Banana “Ice Cream”

This easy, cheap, weird, and truly magical one-ingredient vegan ice cream calls for nothing but bananas and your food processor. Oh, and a spoon.

Raw kale salad on a rectangular white plate

Raw Kale Salad

Simple and sexy (well, some may say sexy), this raw kale salad melds healthful, colorful, and yum-iful to crunchy effect.

Vegetable Broth

Vegetable Broth

Clobbered by a guilty conscience each time you let vegetables languish in the fridge? Yeah, us, too. Until this recipe.

A parchment-line rimmed baking sheet with fifteen whole duck fat roasted carrots.

Duck Fat Roasted Carrots

Surely you’ve heard of potatoes roasted in duck fat? Same basic principle—and unspeakable loveliness—applies here.

Four baked eggs sprinkled with chopped bacon.

Baked Eggs

And you thought you didn’t have time for breakfast. We’re changing that with this handy dandy technique.

A pint-sized canning jar filled with garlic confit, sprigs of thyme and rosemary, and a partially separated head of garlic lying beside the jar.

Garlic Confit

Cloves of garlic are slowly simmered in oil until unthinkably tender, intensely aromatic, subtly sweet, and insanely irresistible.

Breakfast Sausage Patties

Breakfast Sausage Patties

David divulges why he bothers to make his own ingredients, from breakfast sausage to, well, you’ll just have to read about it.

Five bottles of infused olive oils on a white counter.

Infused Oils

We just can’t stop dribbling these easy yet elegant oils—infused with basil, chile, curry, and more—over everything.

Rosemary Carrot Puree

Rosemary Carrot Puree

This one’s for the gluten-free, dairy-free, low-carb, and Paleo peeps. It’s unlike anything you’ve ever had, we guarantee it.

A soup spoon filled with chile oil (hong you)

Chile Oil ~ Hong You

Sure, you could just buy chile oil. But it won’t come close to having the rich hue and roasted flavor of this simple Szechuan recipe.

Roasted chiles piled on a wooden cutting board

Roasted Chiles

This roasted chiles recipe lends a smokey, indefinably authentic flavor to all manner of Mexican and Tex-Mex dishes. Here’s how to do it flawlessly.

A bowl of pico de gallo with a spoon resting inside set on a piece of parchment in a rimmed baking tray.

Pico de Gallo

A Mexican staple, this sauce of sorts is essentially fresh salsa that’s named, curiously, for a rooster’s beak.

Layers of zucchini, summer squash, and eggplant cooked together and garnished with basil for this summer vegetable gratin.

Summer Vegetable Gratin

What to do with late summer abundance? Chef Alain Ducasse’s fancy-pants interpretation of a Provençal classic.

Fresh carrots and beets piled up in bunches.

Salt-Baked Carrots and Beets

Ever swoon while eating your vegetables? That’s what we thought. Next time you desire a side that’s simple yet stunning, try this.

A rimmed baking sheet filled with assorted oven-roasted tomatoes.

Oven-Roasted Tomatoes

This shamelessly simple trick transforms disappointingly ho-hum tomatoes into insatiably sticky, squidgy little lovelies.