This super fresh dinner is pure summer—juicy peaches, creamy avocado, grilled chicken and a kick of hot sauce and lime. To get it on the table even quicker, make the salsa ahead.

If you're looking for the best tomato soup recipe, you've found it! Bursting with bright tomato flavor, this easy-to-make soup is the perfect partner for a gooey grilled cheese.

We finally had a warm day here in the mountains, and for me springtime means seafood and grilling. So, I got a pound of some beautiful shrimp to throw on the grill to be eaten on a chopped Mexican salad, and then got to work on cooking the shells. Yes! You should be cooking with your shellfish shells! Crab, shrimp, and lobster shells are all extremely flavorful, and are excellent when used to make a luxurious bisque. This bisque tastes even creamier than it looks, but it doesn’t use any dairy, gluten, oil, or sugar, and it’s very easy to make.

Ouzo may seem an unusual choice for a risotto recipe, but I promise it makes the tomato, olive, shrimp, and feta flavors stand up and shout!

A quick and new way to serve up asparagus with fresh shrimp and zesty vinaigrette to top it off.

A basic rub and a delightful made-from-scratch barbecue sauce help this honey barbecue chicken shine.

Deliciousness designed to be paired with a glass of cold Sauvignon Blanc or a Sour Ale aged in SB oak barrels.

There are endless variations to jambalaya... shrimp, crab, boudin, andouille, chicken, duck... heck, even alligator. One of the biggest variations is whether you make it "red", which is Creole style, by adding tomato, or brown, which is more Cajun, by simply using the stock. I prefer the red, but you can't go wrong either way. A critical step is to make sure you have appropriate music playing while you prepare the dish... i'd recommend Professor Longhair's "Rock & Roll Gumbo", but the Neville Brothers "Yellow Moon" would be fine as well.

The evolution of this sauce: We often have lemon chicken served with fettucini alfredo, and my fiance likes to mix the two together to make a lemon cream sauce pasta. The other night when he requested it, I had the basil recipe contest on my mind, and thinking how well lemon and basil go together, I set off to make a lemon basil cream sauce. At the grocery store, while picking out lemons, I spotted some leeks and thought "lemon and basil go well, and lemon and leek go well, I wonder what the three would be like to mix all three together" so I decided to make a lemon, leek, and basil sauce to go over chicken and pasta. While cooking and tasting the sauce, I decided it would be even better with seafood, so I made a quick decision to switch proteins. We decided it would be great with peas for a veggie and a crumbled bacon garnish for a bit of saltiness. I'm listing the sauce and pasta seperately here because while I used it in a pasta, I think the sauce would also be good spooned over fish, shrimp, or chicken.

Do you love dark meat and wish you could make a batch of fried chicken just like your favorite fast-food joint? Get ready because these fried chicken thighs are restaurant-quality delicious.

This oven-fried chicken breast is just as crispy and flavorful as deep-fried chicken. Make it for a weeknight meal or a special dinner with friends.

Our baked steak recipe is the best way to cook steak in your kitchen. Make a juicy, tender steak in moments—with just enough baking time so you can toss the salad and set the table!

This vegan Alfredo sauce is so rich and creamy that you may not even notice it's made without butter, cheese or cream. Soaking cashews overnight is the key to creating the smoothest dairy-free Alfredo sauce.

I have a large and fragrantly abundant pot of sage growing right next to my kitchen door. It is sufficiently plush as to attract admirers from even a sidewalk view. And yet ... I never use it. Until Sunday, when I snipped one huge stalk, whose thick, mature leaves protectively shaded an inner rung of tiny ones. Its cut end oozed the perfume of summer, which instantly beckoned to be preserved.

Smoky Middle Eastern spices and a zesty tahini-and-yogurt dressing give these falafel burgers their appeal. If you're expecting a ho-hum meat-free burger substitute, you'll be surprised by this vegetarian classic.

Learn how to make a supremely tasty black bean burger, for a quick and easy weeknight meal.