Herby Black Rice Salad with Radishes and Ricotta Salata

This side dish is flavorful enough to also serve as a main course.

This luscious chilled yogurt soup, packed with fresh and dried mint, is an incredibly refreshing and cooling appetizer during the summer.

This fragrant salad uses bulgur wheat as its base, an endlessly versatile, slightly chewy grain that’s very popular throughout the eastern Mediterranean.

Leftover rotisserie chicken finds new purpose in this endlessly comforting dish.

Salmoriglio is a Mediterranean sauce with herbs, garlic, and olive oil. In this version, kelp is used as the base of the sauce.

Who says latkes have to be potato? Brussels bring a delicious cruciferousness.

Oyster mushrooms are a strong all-rounder in the kitchen, seeming to straddle both plant and meat worlds in what they look and taste like when cooked. Here they’re coated in a marinade my mother used to use when cooking Chinese food at home—honey, soy, garlic and ginger—and roasted until golden, crisp, and juicy.

Put these out at a gathering, and we guarantee you’ll be hearing rave reviews for a long time.