Teriyaki tofu - brown sugar in the marinade caramelizes and you'll pop an entire pound of these cubes. Roast broccoli and call it dinner.

Strawberry muffins made from sourdough discard and some cornmeal, recipe adapted from King Arthur. Sub any other fruit.

Blueberry lime mint sorbet

Ramp chimichurri - be original and resist the temptation to make ramp pesto like everyone else

Hibiscus aqua fresca with hibiscus tea, lime, a bit of sugar, and blueberries.

Watermelon feta salad with mint dressing and hazelnuts

Apricot amaretti cake

Chocolate and zucchini cake

Garlic scape dressing over kale, radicchio, and croutons

Spicy silan (Middle Eastern hot honey)

Tomato rice soup to use up takeout leftovers.

Spring salad with butter lettuce, cucumber, radish, and orange.

Muhammara - red pepper and walnut dip.

Torta di Zucca (Roasted Pumpkin and Cashew Olive Oil Cake) - from Danny Meyer's newest restaurant, Marta.

Dorie Greenspan's fruit and nut croquants, crispy mandelbread-like cookies from Baking Chez Moi.

Farm-fresh corn soup

In case you want to make Buvette's roast chicken salad and haricots verts with mustard vinaigrette at home

Union Square Cafe's sugar snap pea salad with Parmesan and mint.

Chilled cucumber avocado soup with mint and jalapeno

Rhubarb thyme muffins - good enough to justify turning on your oven this Spring.

Spicy dill asparagus pickles

Fried egg and ramps. Because ramps.

I've never made matzah ball soup because my mom's is so good!

Matzah brei (fried matzah) worth buying a new box of matzah for on the last day of Passover.