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The Recipes

10 recipes, each one a checklist you cook straight down without ever looking back up at an ingredient list.

Nine vegetables

Tuscan Cannellini Salad

Cannellini marinated in a warm caper-oil and garlic dressing, nine vegetables cut bean-sized, crispy capers and toasted pine nuts. Gluten-, dairy- and soy-free.

~52 min · 26 ingredients · 153 steps
Juicy

Turkey Meatball Spaghetti

Two pounds of turkey kept juicy with gelatin and grated onion, made savory with shiitake, fish sauce and nutritional yeast, and simmered in a from-scratch marinara over brown-rice spaghetti. Gluten-free, dairy-free, soy-free.

~80 min · 25 ingredients · 204 steps
Side

Dan's Cilantro Lime Rice

Dan's house version of Eric Kim's NYT cilantro rice: three cups of rice toasted in butter with the cilantro stems, finished with the leaves, lime and salt. No jalapeño, no onion powder.

~42 min · 57 steps
Big batch

Broccoli Salad, 4x

Twenty-four servings of chopped broccoli and shaved carrot in a simmered chile-raisin-agave dressing, with toasted panko and almonds on top.

~55 min · 24 servings
Burgers

Three-Pound Patty Sheet

Twelve 4 oz patties from 3 lb of beef, with fish sauce, Worcestershire, MSG and grated frozen butter folded in, and every grain of salt held back for the pan.

~65 min · 12 patties
Comfort

Creamy Vegan Broccoli Soup

Cashews and white beans do all the work of cream, blended into a bowl no one guesses is dairy-free. Toasted panko and pine nuts on top are the reason it is worth making.

~40 min · 112 steps
Bright

Fennel & Orange Salad

Shaved fennel and orange segments in a spice-bloomed citrus vinaigrette, finished with mint, fennel fronds and roasted pistachios.

~29 min · 80 steps
Smoky

Jammy Plantains & Black Beans

Sweet seared plantains braised in a blender sauce of charred poblano, jalapeño, garlic and tomato, with two cans of black beans and a lime avocado mash.

~36 min · 108 steps
Crispier

Green Curry, Crispy Tofu

Tofu baked golden and folded in off the heat. The whole curry gets built inside the thirty-minute bake.

~48 min · 114 steps
Faster

Green Curry, Weeknight

Tofu boiled two minutes and simmered into the curry. The eggplant salts and the rice steams while everything else happens.

~38 min · 94 steps