Chicory

Use vegetable stock or broth to make this soup vegetarian.

Active time: 25 min Start to finish: 25 min

Buy cooked fresh lobster meat and you can whip this salad together in about 30 minutes. Cooking your own lobster, however, not only ensures the freshest flavor and the tenderest meat, but you get more bang for the buck—you can use the lobster shells to make stock and lobster oil.

The contrasting colors of these two beets are especially attractive in this dish but you may substitute any others.

In place of the pasta commonly found in Italian bean soups we've used wheat berries — minimally processed whole grains — for the following recipe.

In Italian cooking, meat (usually breast of veal) that is flattened and then rolled around a filling is known as braciola. The recipe below applies this preparation to turkey breast - an American touch - using a distinctly Italian stuffing.

This gets its distinctive pink color from the addition of red wine and radicchio.

Toasted walnuts and oven-roasted onion add great flavor to this lovely winter salad.

Toasted pecans and shaved Parmesan accent this lovely starter.

Can be prepared in 45 minutes or less.

This recipe can be prepared in 45 minutes or less.

A great accompaniment to baked fish or sausage calzones.

In this colorful salsa, fennel, olives and rosemary combine with roasted bell peppers.