Make Ahead

Chicken soup with a head-clearing kick and a generous dose of seasonal veggies will sooth all that ails you.

Try these tossed into stir-fries, as a burrito filling, or folded into sautéed greens.

Try this smeared on pork, folded into scrambled eggs, or tossed with rice.

With sweet potato as a binder, quinoa for protein, and meaty mushrooms for depth, this veggie burger beats anything in the frozen foods aisle.

Try these anywhere you'd use pickled onion, such as in grain bowls, on roasted carrots, or on a cheese sandwich.

This light-bodied broth is a mélange of scraps that you can collect and save as you cook during the week—use whatever you have. For a shrimp and chorizo paella to make with this, follow this link.

All the rejuvenating powers of your grandmother's chicken stock, plus a head-clearing kick of chile. Reserve chicken for Spicy Feel-Good Chicken Soup or another use.

Vadouvan is sweeter and more aromatic than the typical curry, but Madras curry powder will work in a pinch.

Salting the radishes keeps them crunchy, and keeps the yogurt dip from turning pink.

When your beans are tender, take them off the heat and focus on the cooking liquid, doctoring it with good olive oil, salt, and pepper, tasting and seasoning it until the liquid itself is straight-up delicious.

Add this harissa to your next tomato sauce or try it with our Roast Chicken with Harissa and Schmaltz.

Try this schmeared on toast, tossed with pasta, or dolloped on a baked potato.

Try this in a frittata, folded into a grain salad, or in a hash with bacon.

Try this as a dip, on crackers with smoked fish, or over hard-boiled eggs.

Try this drizzled over roasted potatoes or as a sub for mayo in chicken salad.

Try these tossed in slaw, stirred into soup, or fried with roasted veg to make fritters.

Try these sprinkled on peanut butter toast or stirred into plain yogurt that's been seasoned with fresh lemon juice and salt.

Try this with white beans on toast, in salads, or puréed and spread on pita.

Spend some time making this, and you'll have an easy, fast way to add nuanced flavor.

Try this alongside a chicken cutlet, on a turkey sandwich, or thrown into a stir-fry.