Pomegranate seeds make everything pretty. Including these Turkish Spiced Chicken Kabobs with Tahini Yogurt.

Musical Marinated Shell Beans with Slow Roasted Tomatoes

Forget the onions. Skip the cheese. This steak sandwich with cucumbers & fresh ginger is made as spicy as you like with ghost chili aioli.

I think I should get a job at Hot Pockets. Rapini Galette with Goat Cheese & Red Pepper Flakes.

Scallop Pot Pie. A new take on an old favorite.

Nothing says comfort like cabbage & sausage baked in the oven. Especially when they are wrapped in a flaky crust.

Potato & leeks are baked inside flaky puff pastry in this Alsatian pie. The first in my week long series on savory pies.

Crisp sweet Fuyu persimmons contrast with peppery arugula and tart pomegranate in this perfectly seasonal salad.

This recipe from Bill Kim (Belly Shack) takes a traditional vegetable like Brussels sprouts & gives it an Asian-Latin flavor infusion.

Duck sliders are both familiar and exotic. Crunchy Napa cabbage and sweet savory fig ketchup complete this burger.

Cannelloni with Radicchio & Walnuts. It’s warm creamy secret is bechamel sauce.

Sophisticated flavors come together in these white balsamic vinegar macerated oranges with meringue shards & caramel.

Recipes don’t have to be complicated. Sometimes the simplest ingredients can be creatively paired to yield something fresh & unexpected.

This is a riff on the classic wedge salad with Middle Eastern flavors, honey, lentils and spiced walnuts.

The cherry tomatoes in this pasta are charred to bring out their sweetness. It’s easy to do.

Peach Collins is made with fresh peaches and peach-flavored vodka

Chilled Beet & Fennel Soup with Norwegian Snofrisk Cheese. Because I didn’t know what else to say…

Cold Ramson & Potato Soup– along with other Norwegian dishes. Like whale, would you eat whale?

A video recipe for Mackerel & Ramson from Oslo’s MAAEMO restaurant.

Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam Sliders with Quail Egg.