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Chrissy Teigen’s Skillet-Charred Fish Tacos

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Chrissy Teigen’s Crab, Cream Cheese And Scallion Wontons

This dish (and P.F. Chang’s in general) is about as Chinese as McDonald’s is Scottish, but at least you can make these in the comfort of your own home without staring at a statue of a Mongolian warrior with a single tear coming from his eye. Anyway, I have NO…

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Grilled Broccolini With Taleggio Cream & Hazelnuts

Broccolini works surprisingly well on the grill (unlike regular broccoli, which tends to dry out and can take forever to tenderize). You don’t have to peel the stems, and the florets have a moisture and looseness to them that helps them crisp up nicely without disintegrating. Though you can eat…

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Cucumber & Strawberries With Calabrian Chile & Cured Black Olive Relish, Pine Nuts, & Chèvre

Unlike many salads that hinge largely on the season and what’s fresh and available, this is a dish you can extend through the year with a few small tweaks. The dressing — which isn’t so much a classic vinaigrette as a rustic chopped chile condiment — packs a ton of…

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Grilled Butterflied Whole Chicken With Grilled Figs, Manouri Cheese, & Lentil Chimichurri

If you’ve been to a backyard barbecue, chances are you’ve been served some burnt chicken. This is common and even understandable, because prolonged, direct contact between flames and delicate, fatty chicken skin can easily lead to flare-ups and over-blackening. The two tricks to tender, juicy chicken are indirect heat and…

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Asian Salmon Burgers

Wrapped in warm naan, a succulent salmon patty is stacked with silky avocado, pickled carrots and peppery cress.

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Lasagna With Spinach, Peas And Herbed Ricotta

This dish uses a pea purée instead of traditional béchamel as the base sauce. The result is a lighter lasagna with a vibrant green hue. A squeeze of lemon at the end sharpens all the flavors.

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Spiced Lamb Chops With Pomegranate Glaze

If you can find bottled pomegranate molasses (often labelled “concentrate”), you can save a step and use it in place of the glaze.

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Sazerac

A cocktail recipe from Esquire’s Drink Like A Man.  Sometimes it takes a cold drink to light a fire inside, and few do the job quite so well as New Orleans’ storied Sazerac cocktail, a dark, rich, and bracing dram whose powers of warming are high and cooling practically nil.

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Farm Stand Peach Pizza

An easy and healthy pizza recipe from The Love & Lemons Cookbook, written by Jeanine Donofrio of the wildly successful blog loveandlemons.com.

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Citrus Spiced Gin & Tonic

A dry and light G&T. The strong citrus notes from the cardamom pod and juniper berries combine with spicy aromatics of the cassia bud to make this gin and tonic a favorite cocktail for the spring season and warmer weather ahead.

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Chai Tea-Smoked Flank Steak

You don’t need special equipment to get a good smoke. A foil packet filled with aromatics easily turns your barbecue into a smoker.

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Stuffed Eggplant With Chickpeas, Feta And Dill

Showcasing the gutsy flavors of Greece, these roasted eggplants are topped with plump chickpeas cooked in a cinnamon-kissed tomato sauce, salty feta and delicate tendrils of dill.

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Green Burgers With Sauce

Green is my favorite color and greens are my favorite foods, so wherever I can I try to eat them in as many different, creative ways as possible. These green burgers are surprisingly filling and utlerly tasty—so go green!…

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Boy George’s Steamed Asparagus With Pumpkin-Seed Salsa Verde

This is a salsa verde that Boy George often makes, and since he shared his recipe with me, I now make it all the time too. As is his generous nature, he has shared it with us all. We had a lovely time making it (and eating it) together.