Meatless Mondays

Marcel Proust had his madeleine. David Leite has his Portuguese salt cod, potato, and egg casserole.

Four ingredients and one simple technique that will leave everyone asking—maybe even demanding—you for more. A keeper of a side dish.

The perfect excuse to justify the return of iceberg lettuce to your life.

Looking to elevate canned salmon beyond recognition? Maybe banish all recollections (nightmares?!) of Lenten Fridays from childhood? Here’s your answer.

Blissfully simple. Outrightly old-fashioned. Sigh-inducingly cooling. Even righteously healthy. Say hello to your latest summer obsession.

This simple yet luxurious pasta supper comes together with exceptional ease thanks to skinny strands of quick-cooking angel hair pasta that are tossed with ingredients you probably already have on hand.

Roast beets until sweet enough to be considered dirt candy. Plonk on a place with tangy goat cheese, peppery greens, and a generous drizzle of honey. Lunch is done.

This is less a recipe and more a reminder as to the fact that some nights, simple cheese and bread and olive oil makes a perfectly respectable—enviable, even—supper.

Intrigued? You should be. A couple of the niftiest cooking tricks we know are at play in these ridiculously easy grilled vegetable skewers with chile-doused oozy melty cheese.

"Oh my God." "This may be the best potato gratin I have ever made." "Easy to make and oh so creamy." That's what we're hearing about this simple yet splurge-worthy side dish.

Got leftover spaghetti in the fridge? If you've also got eggs, then you've got supper. A simple, frugal specialty of a chef from Chez Panisse, this comes together with spectacular ease.

If you're the sort who likes things spicy, whether first thing in the morning or at the end of a crazy day, then we've got a quick and easy scrambled eggs recipe for you.

Yes, you can make your own pasta. And no, you don't need a pasta maker, thanks to this recipe. All you need is flour, olive oil, and salt.

This homemade farmer cheese is rich, creamy, lovely, and crazy easy to make. Sorta like a poor man's (or shall we say, lazy man's) homemade ricotta. Here's how to make it.

Good and cheap. That pretty much sums up this pantry supper made with stuff we suspect you already have on hand.

There's a lot to be said for a diner-style dish like this one, though we prefer it made at home, minus the wobbly seats, the sticky laminated menu, and sometimes surly service.

Spaetzle is like homemade pasta but without all that fussy rolling out, which makes it as easy as it is satisfying. Not to mention cheap as can be.

This 4-ingredient Italian onion soup is just as humble, frugal, and soothing as its more commonly known French kin.

Easy, inexpensive, not too spicy, comforting as heck, and made with ingredients you probably already have. It also just so happens to be vegan and gluten-free.

An easy weeknight meal that's an unassuming melding of red lentils, harissa, sautéed onions, and garlicky tahini sauce that can only be described as magical. (Yes, lentils can be magic.)