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Twenty recipes for cooks at any level. Seasonal staples plus the one-pan, the tomato pasta, the roast chicken, the lentil pot.
Spring Asparagus with Brown Butter and Lemon
Asparagus wants almost nothing from you. The fewer ingredients, the more honest the bunch you bought.
A Cold Pea and Mint Soup
Three ingredients pretending to be five. The mint does the heavy lifting.
Strawberry Shortcake, Honest Version
Cream-biscuits, macerated berries, soft whipped cream. No food coloring, no sponge cake, no shortcut.
Rhubarb Galette
The lazy cousin of a pie. No tin, no lattice, no apology.
Tomato Salad with Torn Basil
Buy the best tomatoes you can find. The recipe ends there. Everything else is salt and patience.
Cold Cucumber Soup with Yogurt
Twenty minutes from cutting board to chilled in the fridge.
Grilled White Fish with Summer Herbs
A whole sea bass, sea bream, or two fillets if you can't find a whole fish. The herbs are the marinade.
Peach Galette with Almond
When the peaches are perfect, do almost nothing. When they are not, this is what you do.
Roasted Squash Soup with Brown Butter Sage
Roast the squash, blend the squash, brown some butter. The kitchen smells correct for autumn.
Sunday Roast Chicken with Rosemary
If you only learn to cook one thing, this. The bird is forgiving. The leftovers are the prize.
Pear and Almond Cake
The cake gets better the day after. Bake on Saturday for Sunday.
Lentil and Sausage Stew
A weeknight pot that feeds four for two nights. Better the second day, after the lentils have made friends with the broth.
Slow-Braised Beef with Carrots and Onion
Start at noon. Eat at seven. The work is twenty minutes.
Mashed Potato with Warm Milk
Three ingredients, two textures, one trick — the milk goes in warm.
Chocolate Pot de Crème
Six small jars of dark, dense chocolate. Chill them by morning, finish them by night.
One-Pan Lemon Pasta for One Burner
The whole dinner happens in one pan. Pasta water becomes the sauce. The smallest stove can do this.
The Tomato Pasta That Replaces Takeout
Five ingredients, twenty minutes, the dish that makes a kitchen yours. Learn this one and you stop ordering in.
The Roast Chicken That Looks Like You Cook
Parents arrive Sunday at one. Start the chicken Saturday night with salt — by lunch the next day, it tastes like Sunday at someone else's house.
The One-Pot Lentil Stew for the Long Week
When you can manage one stove, one pot, one chopping board. The whole pot lasts three nights and tastes better each one.
Sticky Ginger Cake
The cake that improves overnight. Bake on Saturday, slice on Sunday, eat the last piece on Wednesday.