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This simple tomato sauce from fresh tomatoes is great on pasta, but can be used as an element in many different dishes.

This simple but perfect recipe, using peppery arugula, crisp apple slices, and crunchy almonds, comes from the cookbook Eat a Little Better: Great Flavor, Good Health, Better World by Sam Kass.

Here is a great dish, which is especially perfect when kohlrabies are in season. It uses six different vegetables and some ground meat, but, in my opinion, the meat could also be left out.

This simple, super easy, refreshing fruit dessert will satisfy your cravings for something delicious, and the recipe is very flexible.

My trusted cookbooks, which I’ve been collecting for more than four decades, and which I consult very often, are written by the Hungarian cook Mari Lajos.

In many different cuisines, the trinity of onions, carrots, and celery serves as the flavor base for a variety of different dishes. It can be the base for soups, stews, and ragues.

Some people believe that for pasta salad fusilli is the right type. But pasta can take on many different shapes, and you cannot go wrong if you use bowtie (also known as farfalle), rotini, penne, or even angel hair pasta.

Ever since a friend of mine told me about a local grocery store where one can often buy duck legs, we started purchasing them quite regularly, because we love to eat duck.

This is a simple, healthy, and delicious snack. You can use canned chickpeas (garbanzo beans) or cook the dried ones yourself. It’s great on its own or as a way to enhance your salads.

It’s so easy to make this Middle Eastern classic, regardless of whether you start with dried chickpeas and cook them yourself, or if you are using drained canned chickpeas.

This recipe is one of the 120 vibrant vegetable recipes from the wonderful cookbook Plenty by Yotam Ottolenghi. The book was a present a few years ago from my dear friend, Kathy, and since then it inspires me to eat more vegetables.

I like to keep this delicious salad very simple using leftover rotisserie or cooked chicken (or turkey), celery, scallions (green onions), but sometimes I might add some grapes, chopped apples or pears, walnuts or almonds, fresh herbs, or chopped hard-boiled eggs.