Yeah, watermelon juice dripping off your elbow is a swell thing. So is this incomparably elegant yet easy salad that melds sweet and heat.
Steamed Vegetables in Parchment
A savvy, sophisticated, eat-your-veggies strategy that works its stealthy charms on kids and adults alike. You’re welcome.
Pickled Spring Vegetables with Mustard-Seed Vinaigrette
This quick refrigerator pickle melds old-fashioned crunch with new-fangled ease.
Soft-Boiled Eggs and Toast
Ideal for lazy weekends as well as harried weekdays, these soft-boiled eggs are cooked to perfection in less than five minutes. You’re welcome.
Limeade
More tart than sweet is what you’ll find this perfectly puckery little limeade to be. And that’s exactly the way it was always intended to be.
Endive Salad with Gorgonzola, Pine Nuts, and Honey
Mother Nature is a savvy, savvy hostess. We know this because endive makes the perfect platter-to-piehole vehicle for cheese.
Harvest Kale Salad
And you thought eating healthfully and seasonally was a chore and a bore. This little vegan number proves you wrong. So very wrong.
Tacos with Sea Scallops and Jicama-Peanut Slaw
This crazily creative departure from convention jumbles together scallops, jicama, peanuts, and pork rinds to stunning effect.
The Derby Cocktail
Bourbon. Curaçao. Sweet vermouth. Lime. We’re sad we didn’t concoct this comforting little ditty. But we’re glad somebody did.
The Foolproof Daiquiri
That froufrou blender drink dolloped with whipped cream? Imposter. This is what you really want. Rum, lime juice, and just a touch of something sweet.