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Summer cucumber crisps: refrigerator quick pickles with cloves, cinnamon, allspice, and mustard seed. Sweet-tart spiced pickle chips, no canning, ready overnight.

Simple, quick and easy homemade soup that is low in fat, a meal by itself. It is even low carb and even the kids love this chicken noodle soup.

Chilled tomato soup with cilantro, jalapeno, avocado, cumin, lime juice, and shredded napa cabbage. A no-cook Mexican-style cold soup that's refreshing, spicy, and vegan.

Easy Italian mushroom spaghetti sauce built from fresh roma tomatoes, tomato paste, and four herbs, simmered with plenty of mushrooms. Vegetarian as-is, or add meatballs or browned beef.

Chilled avocado cilantro soup blended with yogurt, buttermilk, lime juice, and curry powder. A no-cook cold soup with creamy tang and a gentle kick of red pepper.

Sizzling pork pockets with Dijon-marinated pork loin strips stir-fried and stuffed into warm pitas with lettuce and creamy tarragon dressing. A quick, flavorful weeknight dinner.

Cold cucumber mint soup blended with yogurt, chicken broth, and fresh mint then chilled until refreshing. A light, creamy no-cook summer soup garnished with radishes and diced cucumber.

Tortilla soup with tomatoes, chicken broth, cumin, and chili powder simmered until rich, then finished with torn corn tortillas and melted cheddar cheese stirred right in.

Indian pulao rice stuffing for chicken with curry powder, pistachios, raisins, pineapple juice, and chicken broth. A fragrant, jeweled rice that finishes cooking inside the bird.

Rack of lamb marinated in red wine vinegar and coriander, roasted at high heat, then finished with a warm bacon and Dijon mustard vinaigrette built from the pan drippings.

Lobster Moana: tropical-island lobster stir-fry from the New York Times archive with rum, bean sprouts, water chestnuts, snow peas, and napa cabbage, thickened with egg.

Hearty Portuguese soup with smoked chorizo, potatoes, kidney beans, cabbage, and tomatoes simmered in chicken broth. One-pot peasant cooking, big-flavor weekend stew.

Fusilli with lentil sauce is a hearty pasta tossed in a simmered lentil, tomato, and spinach sauce with rosemary, thyme, and Parmesan. A protein-rich one-pot pasta dinner that's mostly pantry ingredients.

Braised root vegetables served chilled with a reduced cooking-liquid vinaigrette. Carrots, leeks, turnips, and parsnips dressed in dill and coriander.

Pan-seared steak pizzaiola tops rib-eyes with a garlicky Italian tomato sauce punched up with oregano, fennel seed, and red pepper. One skillet, weeknight-fast, full-flavored.

Grilled game sausage patties of ground duck, pork shoulder, and pancetta with cinnamon and cumin, wrapped in caul fat. Served on garlicky wilted kale with balsamic reduction.