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Carrots

This bright root vegetable is best harvested in the summer but can be stored in a cool, dry place all fall and winter long. This collection of both sweet and savory carrot recipes covers classics such as carrot cake and carrot soup, but also includes modern twists such as Moroccan carrot salad with harissa and these, twice-baked honey-glazed carrots.

A pot of vegetables ready to be simmered into broth.

Homemade Vegetable Stock

A cup of Vermont Cheddar Cheese soup.

Vermont Cheddar Cheese & Beer Soup, Vegetarian

Leftover Grain Bowl with Teriyaki Sauce, Quick-Pickled Carrots & Daikon and Soft-Boiled Eggs

quick and easy Sichuan noodles with cabbage

Lightning Fast Sichuan Noodles with Chilies and Scallions

Carrot-ginger soup with curry and coconut milk.

Carrot-Ginger Soup with Curry and Coconut Milk

A frosted carrot cake.

Ultimate Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

A bowl of split pea and ham soup topped with olive oil croutons.

Split Pea and Ham (or not!) Soup

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

Chopped Thai Satay Salad with Peanut-Ginger Dressing

A spring salad in a bowl: greens, radishes, carrots, feta, and walnuts.

All-Purpose Lemon Vinaigrette

Vermont Cheddar Cheese Soup & Beer Bread

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

A falafel burger on a plate.

Falafel Burgers (Vegetarian, Broiled)

A jar of simple refrigerator pickles.

Simple Refrigerator Pickles: Memorize This Formula, Pickle Anything

These Asian lettuce wraps are simple to prepare, stunning to serve, and exceptionally satisfying to eat. Both the slaw and the meat are incredibly flavorful and the combination of the crunchy cool slaw with the tender hot meat is so yummy. Make it. You'll be happy. I promise. // alexandracooks.com

Asian Lettuce Wraps for Almost Meatless Potluck

A bowl of Moroccan Carrot Salad.

Harissa Carrot Salad with Avocado

16 favorite vegetable side dishes

16 Favorite Vegetable Side Dishes for Fall

Loaded with vegetables — carrots, potatoes, onions and cabbage — a little bacon and a touch of cream, this cabbage soup is definitely hearty, best served on a cold winter day with crusty bread and nothing more. For me, it's the dill and caraway seeds that make it unlike any other I have tasted, the caraway seeds in particular imparting a lovely yet subtle flavor. // alexandracooks.com

Paul Steindler’s Cabbage Soup and A Peasant Bread Follow-Up

It's the bite of the sherry vinegar makes this lentil soup, but the virtues of it are truly countless: It is completely vegetarian, vegan in fact. It cooks in one hour and takes only as long to prepare as it does to chop up some carrots, celery and onions. No vegetables are sautéed; no stock is simmered. It also couldn't be more healthy — lentils are high in fiber, protein, vitamins and minerals. This soup is complete goodness. // alexandracooks.com

Lentil Soup + Mini Loaves = Complete Goodness

Simple Homemade Chicken Stock + Tinga

Overhead shot of pickled carrots and cauliflower in glass jars.

Simple Pickled Crudité

A bowl of roasted carrots with honey and almonds.

Twice-Roasted Carrots with Honey and Almonds

Slow Cooker Flageolets, Gratinéed | Also, Bread Bowls

Saffron and Carrot Soup with Olive Oil Toasted Bread and Toasted Almond Dukkah —Yum.

Saffron-Carrot Soup with Toasted Almond Dukkah

carrot-quinoa salad with lemon-tahini dressing

Addictive Carrot-Quinoa Salad with Lemon-Tahini Dressing