Perfection is found in simplicity: Grilled Chicken Breasts with Garlic, Lemon, and Olive Oil. (Cooked on the Big Green Egg.)

Leftover Maven makes tasty beef carnitas out of leftover beef brisket. An easy weeknight meal. Gluten-free.

Moist. Tender. Full of BBQ flavor. Are you in for some beef brisket cooked low and slow on the Big Green Egg?

Why eat boring broccoli when you can eat robust broccoli raabe with chicken andouille sausage?

What to do with leftover meat and veggies? Leftover Maven says make Asian mung bean thread noodle soup. Gluten-free.

Give four friends each a Ziploc bag of yeast starter and so on and so forth. Amish Friendship Bread circles the world.

As big, bold, and beautiful as it gets: Orzo with tomatoes, feta, and mint.

Dress it up, dress it down. This garlicky grilled shrimp is food’s version of a little black dress.

Tequila and Lime Marinated Shrimp. A little margarita party on your plate.

Baked Chicken and Monterey Jack Taquitos. In this case, baked IS better than fried.

Salsa Chicken Skewers. Only three ingredients and a big hit at parties.

The solution to a rainy, foggy spring? Santa Fe Chowder full of sunny, warm colors and flavors. Vegan too.

Jumbo Honey Corn Muffins. Easy peasy and people will come running to eat them warm from the oven.

Rustic Berry Tart. Easy enough for a non-baker like me. And a diner told me I should make these and sell them. Try it out!

Farfalle with Goat Cheese, Pine Nuts, Prosciutto, and Peas. A quick and easy weeknight dinner.

Daring Cooks First Challenge: Ricotta Gnocchi, plump with dairy-fresh flavor, and paired with a ragu of pork.

Like Moses and the burning bush, I got a divine directive from above: Make Cook’s Illustrated’s Best Blueberry Muffins.

Did you know that kneading dough can be fatal? No Knead Bread to the rescue.

My first Daring Bakers Challenge: Be creative with Cheesecake. Filipino-inspired mango-calamansi cheesecake with macademia gingersnap crust.