Healthyish

If you don’t want to make the chicken stock from scratch for this congee recipe, simmering some store-bought broth with a few slices of bacon and ginger for 20 minutes or so will give you a huge head-start on flavor.

Sabich, a popular Israeli street food, is a pita-busting combination of a bunch of great appetizers.

Using bruised berries, that last little bit of buttermilk in the container, and a scoop of tahini will make you feel both resourceful and well fed.

We love homemade vinegar, but, yes, you can use supermarket stuff for this, and it will still be awesome.

Making good vinegar, unfortunately, isn’t as simple as just leaving a bottle of wine open for a few months.

What makes this salad special is the miso ranch dressing and the pulverized nori.

The shrimp is even better when it’s grilled.

This bright pink and super creamy hummus is a party showstopper.

A little bit of coconut oil make this curried hummus a complete dream.

Creamy avocado hummus, where have you been all our lives?

Harissa + hummus = heaven.

Roasting the vegetables, along with a trio of umami-rich ingredients (miso, mushrooms, and kombu), give this meat-free broth a deep, satisfying flavor.

Including our favorite approach for cooking quinoa.

This is a cake version of the chocolate-dipped coconut macaroons that are a Passover staple.

Rye berries are sold with their hull intact, which means they’ll take a bit longer to cook than other grains but will reward your patience with al-dente chewy nuttiness.

Three ingredients but infinite possibilities.

If you can’t find new potatoes at the farmers’ market, look for Peewee potatoes or very small Yukon Golds at the grocery store.

Ramps, a wild leek, are one of those fleeting vegetables that whip chefs and cooks into a springtime fever.

Fregola, a small, toasted Sardinian pasta, is classic with clams, and cockles make a great sub for Italy’s tiny vongole veraci.

You don’t have to peel asparagus (unless you really want to!); just leave any thicker spears in the pan for an extra minute.