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Merguez Sausage
Versatile enough to serve with eggs or on pizza, this merguez sausage has remove uses North African spices and is easy to make. It doesn’t even need to be stuffed into a casing: Simply form it into patties and cook.
Lamb Curry Stew
This light and fragrant stew easily changes with the seasons. Simply use your favorite seasonal vegetables.
Blackened Salmon With Mango-Avocado Salsa
Ring in spring with this delicious salmon and salsa recipe from Danielle Walker.
Zucchini Ribbon Salad
Enjoy this colorful and flavorful salad from Danielle Walker!
Spicy Lamb Ribs
A terrific appetizer, this dish becomes a meal when served with a salad of shredded cabbage and pomegranate seeds. When purchasing the lamb ribs, ask your butcher to cut a couple racks of lamb for you, separating the bones from the top of the rack and the chops.
Greek Lamb Burgers
For a different take on hamburgers, try this recipe that adds Greek flavors to the mix.
Provençal Roast Leg of Lamb
A roast leg of lamb doesn’t have to be an all-day process. If you’re time pressed, ask your butcher for a boneless leg, which requires a shorter roasting time and allows you to work the seasoning more thoroughly throughout the roast. Serve with a green salad.
Quinoa, Avocado, and Citrus Salad
This spring salad can morph with the seasons: Use cubes of fresh melon or diced tomatoes in the summer, or cubes of roasted squash in the fall or winter. You can also add a cup of diced chicken, smoked ham, or shrimp.
Zucchini Noodles With Avocado Sauce
A light and refreshing alternative to pasta, “noodles” made from zucchini — or turnips or other root vegetables — taste terrific topped with an herbed avocado sauce.
Grilled Lamb Kabobs with Avocado-Mint Sauce
Seasoned with Middle Eastern spices, skewered and grilled grass-fed lamb, chicken, beef, or pork kabobs are terrific with a refreshing avocado mint sauce Serve with cauliflower “couscous.”
Beef and Barley Mushroom Salad
This flavorful grain salad works well as an entrée or a hearty side. For a vegetarian version, substitute some beans and extra veggies.
Weekday Roast Chicken With Lemon and Garlic
Roasted chicken and potatoes, fragrant with garlic and lemon . . . on a weeknight? Yes! The key is to butterfly the chicken so it can lie flat on the baking sheet, which helps it roast faster. The beauty of this recipe is that it only requires a few minutes of your attention.
One-Pot Pasta
Dry pasta is cooked right in the sauce, a timesaving and delicious trick Italian grandmothers use to infuse the pasta with lots of flavor. Choose a favorite variety (such as shells, penne, or fusilli) that cooks in about eight to 12 minutes. After the pasta has cooked, you may choose to fold in a spoonful of pesto, top the meal with a fried egg for added protein, or drizzle it with balsamic vinegar.
Bean and Root-Vegetable Stew
Once you soak the beans, this hearty stew comes together in roughly 30 minutes and is perfect for a winter day.
Collard Greens With Ham
This soulful side dish is a nice accompaniment to a roasted chicken. For a vegetarian version, simply omit the ham and, if you like, add a teaspoon of smoked Spanish paprika.
Pork Carnitas
Carnitas — braised or roasted pork that is shredded — is a staple of Mexican cuisine and great to have on hand for eating in tacos and tamales or with rice and beans.
Red Lentil Dal With Fresh Cilantro and Lime
Perfect as a light meal, dal is a traditional Indian dish made with lentils, beans, or peas.
Lamb Tangine
Lamb shoulder can be a tough cut of meat, but pressure cooking can make it fall-off-the-bone tender. Serve this over a quinoa, rice, or millet pilaf.
Wild-Mushroom Risotto
Risotto intimidates many home cooks, but using a pressure cooker eliminates all that endless stirring. Try this recipe with your favorite veggies, herbs, and meat or seafood.
Chicken Mole
Mole is a traditional Mexican sauce that has many variations and usually takes hours to cook. This adaptation is quicker but still silky and flavorful.
Black Bean Chili With Chipotle And Dark Chocolate
Spicy and smoky chipotle pepper pairs well with dark chocolate.