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whole roasted chicken, carved

How to Roast a Chicken (And Make the Most of It)

Endive boats with pear, blue cheese, candied pepitas, chives and citrus vinaigrette.

Endive Boats with Pear, Blue Cheese, & Shallot Vinaigrette

A jar of homemade harissa paste.

Simple, Delicious Harissa Paste Made at Home

These are the ideal no-bake granola bar for me: tasty and incredibly chewy, containing healthful ingredients, no processed cereals, and no candy-like additions. The dry mixture contains oats, sliced almonds, unsweetened coconut, and wheat germ, but this mixture can be tailored to your liking with dried fruit, nuts, seeds, wheat bran, oat bran, chocolate chips, etc. // alexandracooks.com

Even Chewier Granola Bars

This goat cheese walnut tart is really fun. And different. And delicious. I can't promise a quick-and-easy dinner with this recipe — beets must be roasted; a tart shell must be baked — but with a little planning, assembly of this tart is quite simple. And it is so worth the effort. // alexandracooks.com

Gordon Hamersley’s Beet, Goat Cheese and Walnut Tart

A stack of slab sandwiches with whipped honey goat cheese, roasted red peppers, olive tapenade and greens.

Slab Sandwich with Olive Tapenade, Whipped Honey Goat Cheese, and Roasted Red Peppers

An overhead shot of a quart of cooked slow cooker black beans.

Simplest Slow Cooker Black Beans

A bowl of Cal Peternell's black bean soup with garnishes.

Simple Black Bean Soup

A bowl of curried Thai chickpeas with rice.

One-Pot Curried Chickpeas

Two fresh loaves of peasant bread on a cooling rack, and the pyrex bowls they were baked in.

My Mother’s Peasant Bread: The Best Easiest Bread You Will Ever Make

sourdough focaccia, crumb shot

Simple Sourdough Focaccia: A Beginner’s Guide

A bowl of homemade vegan chocolate mousse made with whipped aquafaba.

Vegan Chocolate Mousse (Aquafaba + Almond milk)

In the past six years, subscriptions to CSAs in eastern Pennsylvania, southern California and northern Virginia have forever transformed how I eat and cook. I have learned to plan meals based on the vegetables I have at hand not the protein. I have learned to appreciate vegetables in their freshest state seasoned with little more than olive oil, salt and pepper. I have eaten more dark leafy greens than I ever imagined. // alexandracooks.com

Getting the Most From Your CSA + Two Favorite Potato Recipes

Crumb shot of sourdough sandwich (or toasting) bread.

Easy Sourdough Sandwich Bread

Just-baked Buttermilk Pull-Apart rolls.

No-Knead Buttermilk Pull-Apart Rolls

Just-baked hasselback potato gratin.

Hasselback Potato Gratin (No-Peel, Make Ahead)

The BEST Overnight Brioche Cinnamon Buns

A bowl of warm tofu topped with sesame scallion sauce.

Warm Tofu with Spicy Garlic Sauce

Overnight French Toast.

Baked Overnight French Toast

freshly baked currant scones

Lemony Buttermilk Currant Scones

My cookbook, Bread Toast Crumbs, was published last April. In June, illustrator Steph Becker designed toast bookplates and toaster notecards. If you're still in need of a gift this holiday season, it's not too late to order a copy of Bread Toast Crumbs and include with it a toaster notecard with an inscribed toast bookplate! // alexandracooks.com

The 54-Cent Gift to Give All Season

Sister Pie's Salted Maple Pie

Sister Pie’s Salted Maple Pie

Favorite all-purpose pie dough plus all of the pies and pastries I use it with.

Foolproof Pie Dough Recipe {Video}

Freshly baked Challah on a board.

25+ Rosh Hashanah Recipes

A glass bowl filled with watermelon gazpacho.

This polenta without fear is delicious. Minimal stirring is required and the addition of a little water towards the end of the cooking process is all the doctoring necessary to produce "creamy, soft, mouth-filling polenta," as described on Bitten. // alexandracooks.com

This simple pasta salad is particularly good warm, when the just-boiled shells melt the cheese, just slightly cook the tomatoes and soak up all the flavors of the olive oil and lemon juice. It can also be prepared ahead and served at room temperature — it tastes better the longer it sits in fact. // alexandracooks.com

Preserved lemons work nicely anywhere lemon and salt work nicely — so, everywhere? — and while there is something about the combination of smoked mozzarella and lemon that just can't be beat, this preserved lemon pizza is a fun combination, too: za'atar with olive oil, fresh ricotta, preserved lemon and basil. // alexandracooks.com

A collection of easy vegetarian recipes to make year-round.

More Vegetarian Recipes