Cheese

This beautiful appetizer boasts a delicate balance of leek and cheese flavor.

You'll need a pastry bag fitted with a 1/4-inch star tip to create the decorative rosettes. Begin making this cake two days before you plan to serve it.

Can be prepared in 45 minutes or less.

Prepare this cake a day ahead.

Have we found Tex-Mex heaven? This very easy vegetarian meal satisfies with the heft of beans and melted mixed cheese.

The technique for cooking vegetables in water, oil, and vinegar is called à la Grecque, or Greek style. Fennel, celery, pearl onions, and feta cheese round out the salad. Serve a full-boded Chardonnay with it

Chicken salad, pasta salad, and Caesar salad, all in one.

Think flag cake—but with crisp puff pastry, whipped cream, and layers of fresh berries.

With a crisp crust, garlicky mayo, and a juicy slice of tomato.

Salami, provolone, olives, pickled peppers—need we say more?

Whack raw asparagus with a rolling pin, then douse it in a lemony vinaigrette.

Chopped kimchi and soy sauce transform mellow tuna salad into your new favorite riff on the classic diner sandwich.

This lasagna soup delivers rich, baked-pasta flavor without an oven. Made with Italian sausage and spinach, it’s a fast, weeknight-friendly take on the classic.

Crispy, Parmesan-crusted cutlets make this spring dish sing.

Not stuffed shells. But not not stuffed shells either.

You’ll enjoy this dish here, there, and everywhere.

A halfway-homemade pastry to wow anyone.

All pizza toppings welcome, especially pickled peppers, olives, maybe an anchovy or 10.