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Byline: Joe Yonan Overview Ingredients Steps Risotto has long gotten a bad rap, with a reputation for fussiness -- that whole stand-over-the-pot-and-stir thing -- that has never really been accurate. [...]

Byline: Joe Yonan Overview Ingredients Steps Of all the things you can make with beans, a pureed dip is surely the easiest, and one of the most satisfying, too. When [...]

Byline: Joe Yonan Overview Ingredients Steps I learned that beans are great in salads from a very young age. My mom, as I've written before, made something she called Texas [...]

Byline: Joe Yonan Overview Ingredients Steps I've been thinking about beans and rice a lot lately, and it's only partly because I wrote a book about the former. I've been [...]

Byline: Joe Yonan Overview Ingredients Steps An interviewer recently asked me about my favorite things to do with canned beans, and when I mentioned tacos, he was so surprised ('I've [...]

Byline: Joe Yonan Overview Ingredients Steps I've said -- or written -- it so many times, I long ago lost count. But here goes again: The key to quick-but-interesting weeknight [...]

Byline: Joe Yonan Overview Ingredients Steps Pesto belongs in the pantheon of flexible recipes. Sure, the classic combination is basil, garlic, Parmesan, pine nuts and olive oil, but I've made [...]

Byline: Joe Yonan Overview Ingredients Steps Comfort and ease: That's what quesadillas have always represented to me, since the very first time I folded a tortilla over some cheese. You [...]

Byline: Joe Yonan I think I speak for all of us when I say my head is spinning these days, full of more questions than answers. What was certain a [...]

Byline: Joe Yonan Overview Ingredients Steps Adaptability. That's what the world is requiring of us right now, and that's certainly what we need in our recipes. Because who knows what [...]

Byline: Joe Yonan Overview Ingredients Steps Can you imagine eating the same lentil soup at your desk for lunch virtually every workday for almost two decades? I couldn't, at least [...]

Byline: Joe Yonan Overview Ingredients Steps Once, many years ago, a fellow food writer sidled up to me and asked: 'I don't really cook with spices, do you?' he said. [...]

Byline: Joe Yonan Overview Ingredients Steps You've probably seen plenty of 'Buddha bowls' on Instagram, especially if you follow healthy-eating accounts: As far as I can tell, the term most [...]

Byline: Joe Yonan Overview Ingredients Steps Here's another way to cook up the protein-on-starch marriage that's so popular the world over. You know, the one that produced black beans and [...]

Byline: Joe Yonan Overview Ingredients Steps Fruit adds something special to savory dishes: a generous dose of seasonality. We can get so many fruits year-round, but when they're at their [...]

Byline: Joe Yonan Overview Ingredients Steps Every fall, the sight of winter squashes in all their glory -- stacked in bins at the supermarket, arranged in piles at the farmers [...]

Byline: Joe Yonan Overview Ingredients Steps Two things stop me from making pot pies for other than special occasions: 1) The pastry, which takes time to make, roll, cut and [...]

Byline: Joe Yonan Overview Ingredients Steps Lasagna is like pizza: Even when it's bad, it's good. With pizza, the saying goes, it's still melted cheese on warm bread. With lasagna, [...]

Byline: Joe Yonan Overview Ingredients Steps There aren't too many ways I don't like eggplant, if it's cooked right. And that often involves an ungodly amount of olive oil, since [...]

Byline: Joe Yonan Overview Ingredients Steps Grilled cheese is elemental. All you need is the right cheese (I like Gruyere or sharp cheddar), the right bread (I go for a [...]

Byline: Joe Yonan Overview Ingredients Steps Some cookbook authors have earned my complete trust, and Amy Chaplin is one of them. I've never made a thing I didn't love from [...]

Byline: Joe Yonan Overview Ingredients Steps I never met a noodle I didn't like. Spaghetti, ramen, udon, rice: You name it, I'll slurp it, happily. A favorite, especially in the [...]

Byline: Joe Yonan Overview Ingredients Steps Nothing disappoints me more than a dry sandwich. So intense are my feelings on this subject that I once threatened on social media to [...]

Byline: Joe Yonan Overview Ingredients Steps The first time I tasted ajo blanco, Spain's white gazpacho, I was surprised. Surprised that as a fan of the better-known tomato gazpacho and [...]

Byline: Joe Yonan Overview Ingredients Steps Anybody who's read much of anything about food over the past few years has surely heard the maxim 'Eat food, not too much, mostly [...]

Byline: Joe Yonan Overview Ingredients Steps My first summer in Washington, I was fairly miserable. I lived barely 10 blocks from work, but what had been a 12-minute walk in [...]

Byline: Joe Yonan Overview Ingredients Steps We're starting to hit that time of year when summer's glorious produce demands to be used, just when you may be too heat-fatigued to [...]

Byline: Joe Yonan Overview Ingredients Steps Most nights, I open the fridge to find a bounty of fresh and cooked vegetables, grains, beans -- along with all those condiments and [...]

Byline: Joe Yonan Overview Ingredients Steps The best summer salads are mere suggestions: Buy what looks good and fresh and calls to you at the market, cook it simply or [...]

Byline: Joe Yonan Overview Ingredients Steps As a son of the South, I have a thing for long-cooked vegetables. One of the dishes my mother made that I remember most [...]

Byline: Joe Yonan Overview Ingredients Steps When salad season heats up, one thing keeps my kitchen humming: a good homemade dressing. Sure, I'll throw together a makeshift vinaigrette here and [...]

Byline: Joe Yonan Overview Ingredients Steps Sometimes I want pizza -- wood-fired-oven-baked, charred-crust, Neopolitan-style -- and sometimes I want 'pizza.' The latter is the type of thing I would make [...]

Byline: Joe Yonan Overview Ingredients Steps If you've paid attention to the career of chef Jose Andres over the past few years -- and who hasn't? -- you shouldn't find [...]

Byline: Joe Yonan Overview Ingredients Steps I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Cooking is often a matter of managing moisture: keeping it in when you're cooking meat, [...]

Byline: Joe Yonan Overview Ingredients Steps Smart cooks have their little tricks, back-pocket condiments and add-ons that can transform a dish. Chef and former farmer Abra Berens is one of [...]

Byline: Joe Yonan Overview Ingredients Steps One secret to making interesting plant-based dishes is to include quick-pickled or fermented ingredients -- miso, kimchi, vinegar and the like -- for their [...]

Byline: Joe Yonan Overview Ingredients Steps If you shop mostly at grocery stores, where the produce may or may not be connected all that much to seasonality, the appearance of [...]

Byline: Joe Yonan Overview Ingredients Steps Jackfruit has a lot going for it, including a low calorie count and lots of nutrients, but for plant-based cooks its biggest selling points [...]

Byline: Joe Yonan Overview Ingredients Steps Ask most people how they eat radishes, one of my favorite ingredients of the season, and I bet most of them will talk about [...]

Byline: Joe Yonan Overview Ingredients Steps I know, I know. Tempeh can be a hard sell. I still remember the email I got from the nicest reader who said that [...]

Byline: Joe Yonan Overview Ingredients Steps Is there a dish you always order, no matter what else is on the menu? For me, it's chile relleno. I started ordering the [...]

Byline: Joe Yonan Overview Ingredients Steps The first few times I heard the term 'mac and trees' it was a reference to the get-your-kids-to-eat-vegetables bowl of mac and cheese with [...]

Byline: Joe Yonan Overview Ingredients Steps Is there anything that doesn't belong in a taco, if it's seasoned properly? I can't think of many things, as long as the combination [...]

Byline: Joe Yonan Overview Ingredients Steps Many years ago, a meat-loving colleague stood up at a food conference after I gave a presentation on my transition to a plant-based diet: [...]

Byline: Joe YonanOverview Ingredients StepsFew frozen ingredients are as versatile as store-bought puff pastry. You can get all fancy -- cutting it into shapes, topping them with multiple layers of [...]

Byline: Joe YonanOverview Ingredients StepsLet's get a couple of misconceptions about risotto out of the way: First, I hope you've heard by now that the whole standing-and-stirring-forever myth is just [...]

Byline: Joe YonanOverview Ingredients StepsThey've been all over Instagram for a couple years now: bright orange planks topped with avocado (of course), or some combination of spread, fruit, vegetable, egg, [...]

Byline: Joe YonanOverview Ingredients StepsThe appeal of a whole roasted cauliflower is obvious, especially to plant-based cooks: It looks impressive, you can eat it with a knife and fork (rather [...]

Byline: Joe YonanOverview Ingredients StepsAs versatile and nutritious as they are, lentils can be confusing. Even once you learn the differences in cooking times and textures among red, brown, green [...]

Byline: Joe YonanOverview Ingredients StepsRecently, a colleague confessed to being tofu-challenged. She had tried cooking it years ago and was so disappointed in the results she never tried again. But [...]