Vegetarian

Carrot tops are too delicious to throw away.

Ward off the chill with a steaming bowl of soup and fresh-from-the-oven bread. This tempting, hearty recipe is surprisingly easy – and totally satisfying.

Grenfell was a real community and my neighbor Rania and I used to party with food all the time. The first time I made these samosas for her, she ate ten of them. Really! They look like a lot of work, but if you have a food processor to chop the vegetables it’s very easy. Use my quick way of folding them too, to save time. Just be sure to make enough...

Meet my version of Easy Mac! This lazy mac and cheese is what I whip up in the event that I’ve allowed myself to get ravenously carb hungry and am all out of bread. I turn to Israeli couscous, which cooks up quickly and has the most satisfying texture, and my accoutrements of choice are yogurt, cheese and butter. I learned by way of Greek cookbook author Diane Kochilas’s genius yogurt pasta that plain Greek yogurt can be the base for a pretty badass easy-peasy mac and cheese sauce. This is a mac and cheese that requires one measuring cup (yes, math whiz, the 1⁄4 cup!), and one pot (which you can totally eat out of—I won’t tell), but no straining and no roux, and it makes one good serving that will ll you right up. And if you’re really nailing life and have a stray hot dog in your refrigerator, go ahead, cut that up, add it and pat yourself on the back.

If this nacho Cceese were an album, it would be Dr. Dre’s The Chronic. Not only is it gonna make you feel nostalgic for that oooey gooey sauce you get at the movies or carnivals, but it’s also gonna be on repeat in your kitchen! You don’t need to feel bad about it either because your new favourite cheese sauce is made from potatoes and carrots. —Lauren Toyota