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A bowl of broccoli-cheddar soup with olive oil toasted croutons and a spoon.

Vegetarian Broccoli-Cheddar Soup

A cup of Vermont Cheddar Cheese soup.

Vermont Cheddar Cheese & Beer Soup, Vegetarian

Gramma's mustard sauce in a Weck jar.

My Grandmother’s Mustard Sauce (AKA: “The Ham Sauce”)

Gluten- Free Lemon-Thyme Shortbread

Just-baked Torta Caprese.

Flourless Chocolate-Almond Cake (Torta Caprese)

5-Ingredient, 8-Minute Glazed Green Beans

Just-baked butternut squash lasagna with greens and mushrooms.

Butternut Squash Lasagna with Greens & Mushrooms (No-Boil Noodles)

No-bake granola bars in a storage vessel.

No-Bake Granola Bars (Gluten-Free, Vegan)

Mushroom flatbread

Grilled Flatbread

Really, for me, the idea of a perfect dinner is this: several thin-crust pizzas (each topped differently), a salad (a homemade Caesar salad sounds nice at the moment) and a glass of wine. Cooking these pizzas in a wood-burning oven is the only way this recipe could be improved. Desperately want to make one of these adobe ovens I saw being built at San Francisco's Slow Food Nation. // alexandracooks.com

Pizza Pizza

A nectarine pizza cut into slices.

Nectarine Pizza with Fresh Basil and Reduced Balsamic

Pizza Margherita, Marcella Hazan Tomato Sauce with Onion and Butter, Homemade Ricotta

A roasted butternut squash and crispy sage pizza on a board.

Pizza with Roasted Butternut Squash and Crispy Sage

Fig jam, caramelized onion and blue cheese pizza.

Lahey Pizza Dough | Tipo 00 Flour | Fig Jam, Caramelized Onion, Blue Cheese Pizza

A just-baked lemon and smoked mozzarella pizza.

Lemon, Smoked Mozzarella & Basil Pizza

Charred eggplant produces a creaminess without the help of oil, and the charring moreover imparts such a nice smokiness to the eggplant's flesh. Some sort of flatbread or grilled bread is a must with each of these preparations, and if you happen to have some za'atar in your pantry, the aromatic spice mixture complements the eggplant so nicely. // alexandracooks.com

Burnt Eggplant with Za’atar Flatbread

A margherita pizza cut into pieces.

Baking Steel Pizza Two Ways: Margherita and Caramelized Onion & Burrata

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

What To Do with Those Preserved Lemons? Pizza, Orzo

Bowls of butternut squash and cider soup aside herbed flatbreads.

Butternut Squash and Apple Cider Soup

Ramp Green Pesto & Pizza | Pickled Ramps

Raw asparagus salad.

Canal House Shaved Asparagus & Arugula Salad | Roxbury Farm CSA

Here I've pickled peppers, onions, and fennel, and I've been tucking the mix into sandwiches, spreading it atop melty cheese toasts, and, as intended, sprinkling it over just-baked pizza. I imagine it would be fabulous with grilled bratwurst or in a Philly cheesesteak-style sandwich. // alexandracooks.com

Simple, Quick- Pickled Vegetables

It's dishes such as this that make me understand (almost) how people can be vegetarian. In In this slow-cooked kale, kale is blanched first, roughly chopped and then sautéed over low heat for thirty minutes in olive oil with onions, garlic, rosemary and chile de árbol. It's almost black and slightly crispy when finished. It is sweet and addictive. // alexandracooks.com

Suzanne Goin’s Slow-Cooked Kale ( & Stuffing)

red wine cranberry sauce

Homemade Red Wine Cranberry Sauce