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When your beans are tender, take them off the heat and focus on the cooking liquid, doctoring it with good olive oil, salt, and pepper, tasting and seasoning it until the liquid itself is straight-up delicious.

Try this tossed with cooked soba noodles or drizzled over seared salmon.

Sub spinach for kale if you like.

A pinch of salt makes everything taste better, including savory smoothies.

The stems from Swiss chard shouldn't be trashed; they add texture and a layer of flavor to any sauté.

Add this harissa to your next tomato sauce or try it with our Roast Chicken with Harissa and Schmaltz.

Try this schmeared on toast, tossed with pasta, or dolloped on a baked potato.

Try this in a frittata, folded into a grain salad, or in a hash with bacon.

This deep savory dressing makes simply cooked vegetables come to life.

This power-breakfast smoothie will be extra smooth if you soak the nuts and oats in water overnight; drain before proceeding.

Try these tossed in slaw, stirred into soup, or fried with roasted veg to make fritters.

Try these sprinkled on peanut butter toast or stirred into plain yogurt that's been seasoned with fresh lemon juice and salt.

Try this alongside a chicken cutlet, on a turkey sandwich, or thrown into a stir-fry.

An easy stovetop method that is quicker than a rice cooker and yields tender, distinct grains that cling gently to each other? Read on.

Charred onions offer the best of three worlds: a slightly bitter taste (in a good way), caramelized edges, and crunchy-sweet flesh. If you want to eat them like potato chips, we won't tell.

The base for countless dishes in Japanese cooking. This method requires just 30 minutes to soak the kombu, unlike some that call for overnight soaking.

Why spend all of that money on a breakfast bowl that you can easily make at home? This hearty, gluten-free bowl takes just minutes to throw together and is absolutely delicious.

These bright zesty pickles are equally at home in a cocktail as they are in a salad, with pâté, or as part of a cured meats and cheese board.

Toasted hazelnuts are the perfect complement to luscious dark chocolate and fragrant cinnamon in these decadent holiday cookies.

The intensity of this ganache balances out the other sweeter components in our Bûche de Noël. If you prefer rounder, less sharp flavors, use semisweet or milk chocolate instead of bittersweet.