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A pan of just-baked eggplant involtini.

Pressure Cooker Tomato-Basil Sauce

vegetable tacos

Grilled Vegetable Tacos with Tomatillo Salsa

A bowl of Texas Caviar.

Texas Caviar

Melon & Cucumber Salad

A large bowl of chopped Thai salad satay ready to be served.

Chopped Thai Satay Salad with Peanut-Ginger Dressing

A platter of chips and guacamole.

Simple, Homemade Guacamole

a bowl of tabbouleh

Tabbouleh

A bowl of Vietnamese cucumber salad.

Samin Nosrat’s Vietnamese Cucumber Salad

This pesto pasta can be made with anything. All you really need is a bunch of herbs, a handful of nuts and some sort of hard salty cheese. While nothing perhaps marries quite as well as basil, pine nuts and parmesan, variations made with with other cilantro and parsley, walnuts and almonds, and Pecorino and Grana do the job quite nicely. // alexandracooks.com

Simple, Fresh Homemade Pesto Sauce with Pasta

Made with shallots, bread crumbs, olive oil, capers, anchovies, parsley and thyme, this bread crumb salsa could be served with anything from pan-seared lamb chops to grilled steak. Yum. // alexandracooks.com

Pan-Seared Lamb Chops with Toasted Bread Crumb Salsa

A cast iron skillet filled with baked ricotta.

Baked Ricotta

Assembled chickpea taco bowls with lettuce, lime, sour cream, and cheese.

Chickpea Taco Bowls

Eggplant salad.

Roasted Eggplant Salad with Cucumber-Yogurt Sauce and Tomatoes

Sweet potato quesadillas on a board.

Sweet Potato Quesadillas with Radish Salsa

Recently, I've been living on this recipe for Fisher's creamy potato soup. Simple and delicious, the ingredients come together quickly: sauté two onions, add four peeled potatoes and water, simmer till tender, add milk (thickened with a roux), and purée. A deeply satisfying soup perfect for the colder months of the year! // alexandracooks.com

MFK Fisher’s Potato Soup

This summer vegetable salad comes together in no time—as the shallots macerate in the vinegar for the dressing, you can prep everything else: slice the radishes, turnips, scallions, etc. With a hunk of bread on the side, the meal is complete. // alexandracooks.com

10-Minute Meal: Greens + Tuna + Shallot Vinaigrette

Folded into olive oil-fried bread, this magic peppers salad made a lovely panzanella salad but could have easily become a bruschetta or simple grain or pasta salad. Much to my delight, making this panzanella felt nothing like hard work. It was almost as though the salad assembled itself. Perhaps "hard work" is a state of mind. Hmm...deep thoughts. // alexandracooks.com

“Magic” Peppers Salad with Pine Nuts & Capers

A glass bowl filled with watermelon gazpacho.

Watermelon Gazpacho

cucumber and green grape gazpacho

Green Gazpacho Soup

Overhead shot of corn soup with herb salsa.

Five-Ingredient Corn Soup with Herb Salsa

A bowl of no-fuss, easy, chicken enchilada casserole.

Easiest Chicken Enchilada Casserole

Just-baked black bean and cheese enchiladas.

Vegetarian Bean and Cheese Enchiladas

A falafel burger on a plate.

Falafel Burgers (Vegetarian, Broiled)

A platter topped with a raw corn salad made with tomatoes, feta, and lots of herbs.

Raw Corn Salad with Tomatoes, Feta, and Herbs