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Weeknight Dinners

A piece of bread topped with baked (shirred) eggs.

Herb and Gruyère-Topped Baked (Shirred) Egg

Ginger Fried Rice with Poached Egg

This freekeh salad is my favorite kind of recipe, one whose assembly is fluid — as the vegetables roast in the oven, the freekeh cooks stovetop, and you make the dressing — and whose payoff is big: minimal mess and a meal that's at once light and comforting. // alexandracooks.com

Freekeh Salad with Roasted Kale & Cabbage

These curried lentils with coconut milk are incredible even completely cold and in solid form. I could live on these lentils. // alexandracooks.com

Curried Lentils with Coconut Milk

I love the addition of grapes, apples, nuts, and dried fruit in this curried apple and egg salad — bits of crunch punctuating the creaminess, sweet counterpoints to the tangy dressings. The lemony dressing is made with Greek yogurt and grainy mustard, and although there is no mayonnaise, the salad does not suffer. It's light, fresh, and completely satisfying. // alexandracooks.com

Curried Apple & Egg Salad

Crispy Tofu and Broccoli with Sesame-Peanut Pesto

A skillet filled with crispy chicken thighs and preserved lemon.

Crispy Chicken Thighs with Preserved Lemon

Canal House chicken and rice is miraculous foremost for its reception — we ALL gobble it up — but also for its simplicity: it's a one-pot wonder calling for nothing more than butter, one onion, a few stalks of celery, one chicken, rice and water. // alexandracooks.com

Canal House Chicken and Rice

Cacio e pepe, a classic Italian dish, relies on starchy pasta cooking water to form a creamy emulsion with butter and cheese, often Parmigiano Reggiano and Pecorino Romano, and it couldn't be more delicious or simple. I like simple. // alexandracooks.com

Cacio e Pepe

In this cabbage pad thai, sugar and lime juice in the stir-fry sauce stand in for tamarind, whose fruity, tart flavor lends that sweet-and-sourness characteristic of traditional pad Thai. This dish comes together quickly, and while the vegetables and seasonings may be unorthodox, the combination is tasty and satisfying. // alexandracooks.com

Cabbage Pad Thai-ish

You will relish this endive and fava tartine—ricotta, pea shoots, radishes, and herbs—each spring-filled bite assuring you that you can endure a few more weeks of winter. This is the tartine to make when you’ve had your fill of comfort foods—of soups and stews and roasts and braises—and you long for something fresh and bright. // alexandracooks.com

Bread Toast Crumbs { The Trailer Part II: Toast } + Endive & Fava Salad Tartine with Herbed Ricotta

This recipe for almond-sesame soba noodles with quick-pickled vegetables is really fun and super easy. It's also a good one to rely on in the summer — it's so refreshing — and, if you subscribe to a CSA or tend a prolific garden, it makes great use of all of those carrots, cucumbers, and radishes you may find yourself up to your eyeballs in. // alexandracooks.com

Almond-Sesame Soba Noodles with Quick-Pickled Vegetables

balsamic-roasted eggplant and arugula sandwiches

Balsamic-Roasted Eggplant & Arugula Sandwiches

A sizzle platter holding broiled arctic char dressed in a citrus sauce.

Broiled Lemon-Honey Arctic Char with Citrus Sauce

A bowl of rice noodles with herbs and nuoc cham.

Rice Noodles with Nuoc Cham, Herbs, & Crispy Tofu

A crispy quinoa cake on a plate.

Crispy Quinoa Cakes with Mustard Greens

A pot of curried chickpeas with cauliflower and coconut milk.

Curried Chickpeas with Cauliflower and Coconut Milk

A skillet filled with pasta carbonara.

Favorite Weeknight Meal: No-Bacon Pasta Carbonara Loaded with Greens

No Boil Mac and Cheese, Alexandra's Kitchen

Super Easy No-Boil Mac n Cheese

A bowl of baked penne with butternut-sage sauce.

Baked Penne with Butternut Squash-Sage Sauce

Sheet pan mac n cheese on a plate.

Sheet Pan Mac n’ Cheese

A portion of sheet pan pasta gratin with kale on a plate.

Sheet Pan Pasta Gratin with Kale

A platter filled with one-pan roasted chicken thighs and potatoes.

One-Pan Chicken with Potatoes & Tarragon

I love this peanut sauce, one I have made a number of times over the years, for its versatility: for chicken satay, lettuce wraps, and fresh spring rolls. It, along with copious amounts of Thai basil, even transforms tofu. // alexandracooks.com

All-Purpose Thai Peanut Sauce

A jar of Greek salad dressing on a countertop.

An overhead shot of a stack of homemade flour tortillas.

A large bowl of mango salsa.

A bowl of Moroccan Carrot Salad.

A bowl over overnight chia oats and berries.

Beet salad on a plate.

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