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Fava Beans With Mint, Potatoes and Artichokes

Lentils in Marinara

Vignarola

Asparagus and Herb Frittata
This also makes a beautiful appetizer, cut into diamonds.

Perfect White Rice, Spanish Caribbean Style

Blueberry Coconut Oatmeal Pudding
I spoon this comforting, sweet pudding into ramekins and serve it as a dessert, but you could also make it a breakfast splurge. You can serve it hot or cold.

Ginger Carrot Soup

Baked Lentils With Goat Cheese
The French green Le Puy lentils are smaller and firmer than brown lentils, but have the same type of earthy flavor. They lend themselves to dishes where you want the lentils to stay intact like salads and sides. "Beluga lentils" will also work for this salad.

Mezzelune Pasta With Peas and Shiitake Mushrooms
These delicate little half-moon stuffed pasta bundles (virtually the same as ravioli but for its name and shape) are fun to make and perfect for a light springtime meal or first course. Though best made with homemade egg pasta, alternative choices are to use fresh lasagna sheets or dumpling wrappers. Or feel free to make standard square ravioli, or even mix and match shapes, as long as they’re the same approximate size. To keep the project manageable, complete some of the tasks in advance: Make the pasta dough and filling a few hours ahead. The mezzelune (in English the plural is mezzalunas) may be filled and refrigerated well in advance of dinner — up to 3 hours ahead.

Spicy Lentil and Sweet Potato Stew With Chipotles
The sweetness of the sweet potatoes infuses this Mexican-inspired lentil dish along with the heat of the chipotles, which also have a certain sweetness as well because of the adobo sauce they’re they are packed in. The combination, with the savory lentils, is a winner.

Wheatberry Salad With Rhubarb-Mint Dressing

Eggplant Ragù With Capers and Burrata
This eggplant dish is a lot like pasta alla Norma, minus the pasta. Instead, it’s the large, crisp chunks of eggplant that star, enrobed in basil-scented marinara sauce and topped with a melting, creamy mix of burrata and ricotta. In this recipe adapted from the chef Amy Brandwein of Centrolina in Washington, D.C., the cubed eggplant is topped with crunchy, salty eggplant chips, sliced ultrathin and deep-fried until golden. But if that’s one step too many when you’re cooking this at home, feel free to leave the chips out.

Braised Turnips and Radishes

Harvest Tart With Pumpkin and Peppers
A savory, olive oil-crusted tart stuffed full of golden, roasted peppers, jammy onions and some freshly grated pumpkin is a great dinner party treat, although it's perfectly wonderful for a family evening repast as well. Salt the pumpkin ahead of time to draw out excess moisture, though if you are pressed for time you can skip this step. To perk up the caramelized intensity of the filling, it is helpful to fold in something zingy like olive or capers, or perhaps a good splash of lemon juice.

Sweet Rhubarb Focaccia
Here's a surprising twist on the traditional savory focaccia: a sweet and tart tangle of rhubarb rests atop a light and chewy bread which is then sprinkled with raw demerara sugar for a satisfying crunch.

Gingered Lentil And Celery Salad

Frittata With Turnips and Olives
This is adapted from a Richard Olney recipe. Even in winter it is possible to find turnips that are not fibrous or spongy. (Those, Mr. Olney says, should be relegated to the soup pot.) Look for hard medium-size or small turnips.

Lentil Salad With Walnut Oil
This dish is inspired by a recipe from “The Paris Cookbook,” by Patricia Wells. I’d never thought about using walnut oil, which is high in omega-3 fats, with lentils. It’s a great combination. Be sure to keep walnut oil in the refrigerator once it’s opened.

Caramelized Onion and Lentil Pilaf
Back in 2003, Nigella Lawson brought to The Times a recipe for chicken and apricot masala, and with it, she paired this dish, a caramelized onion and lentil pilaf. “The sweet smokiness of scorched onion and the depth of spicing you get from cumin, coriander and cloves more than balances out the rich texture of the rice studded with lentils and mustard seeds,” she wrote. “This dish is robust and earthy ballast. I might even have it by itself for supper, with no more than a salad of diced cucumber, dressed with yogurt and dried mint, on the side.” Perhaps you should do the same.

Burrata With Fava Beans, Fennel and Celery
Good fresh burrata — mozzarella’s luscious, creamy-centered cousin — really needs no adornment, just good bread to accompany it (and perhaps a drizzle of olive oil and few arugula leaves). To make it more festive, add a quickly made seasonal vegetable topping and serve the gilded burrata as a salad or antipasto. Bright green fava beans, celery and fennel make a lovely rendition for spring.

Tomato Stracciatella
Stracciatella is like an Italian egg drop soup. This particular version is adapted from one of my favorite cookbooks, "Cooking From an Italian Garden," by Jon Cohen and Paola Scaravelli. I’d never seen a stracciatella with tomatoes until I came across this recipe.

Green Lentils With Roasted Beets and Preserved Lemon

Cucumber-and-Potato Soup

Baked Celeriac
Each recipe below is based on a given root, but feel free to mess around. Bake beets instead of celeriac; make creamy potato soup, braise carrots, braise parsnips and so on.