Spring Salad of Asparagus, Ramps, Snap Peas, & Peas With Lemon Zest Vinaigrette

Want to make great food in the spring? All you've got to do is find some perfect ingredients and not mess 'em up. This recipe combines some of the best ingredients of the season, prepared simply, for a healthy and flavorful meal.

Asparagus and Sweet Pea Frittata With Minty Spring Salad

This simple pea-and-asparagus frittata is a quintessential spring dish that's as perfect for breakfast as it is a light lunch, snack or dinner. Served with a bright, fresh salad that's flavored with fresh mint and shaved asparagus, it becomes a quick and easy meal in its own right.

Farro and Roasted Pepper Salad

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Spring Salad!

Spring Salad - just a really great, elegant salad using spring vegetables: asparagus, snow peas, peas with baby cos lettuce and goats cheese.

Smitten Kitchen's Honey and Harissa Farro Salad

It's hard to get through fall without encountering more than a few roasted vegetable salads. They're earthy, filling, and entirely seasonal. In The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook, Deb Perelman writes about a few such salads, but the one that drew my eye was her Honey and Harissa Farro Salad. I'm a big harissa fan, and the idea of tempering its spiciness with honey sounded like a perfect dressing base. But what the title of the recipes leaves out is that over half of this salad is made up of roasted ba...

Farro Salad With Blue Cheese, Pine Nuts, and Tomatoes

Farro is combined with fresh ingredients: juicy tomatoes, cucumbers, and herbs. The salad is then flavored with red wine vinaigrette, pine nuts, and crumbled blue cheese.

Spring Vegetable Salad With Poached Egg and Crispy Bread Crumbs

The other day I had a salad of spring vegetables served with a soft boiled egg that had been breaded and fried until the outside was crispy but the interior was still soft and runny. This quick version of the dish is made with toasted breadcrumbs and has all of that great texture and flavor, but without the hassle.

Farro Salad with Sizzled Dressing

A stellar farro salad with burst tomatoes, spinach, smeary goats cheese, doused in a sizzling hot garlic olive oil dressing with toasted coriander and cumin.

Stir-Fried Farro With Garlicky Kale and Poached Egg

Ditch the hastily-toasted bagel and thrown-together bowl of ceral and choose a healthy combination of grains and greens—and, of course, an egg—with this colorful and tasty breakfast recipe.

Spring Vegetable and Arugula Salad With Labne and Cucumbers

Come spring, it helps to keep the fridge stocked with the season's best produce, already blanched and chilled and at the ready. Here we combine sweet peas, grassy asparagus, green fava beans, crisp snap peas, and broccolini, along with some peppery arugula, a juicy cucumber, a red onion, and some fresh mozzarella cheese. Served with a good dressing and some labne and we have a spring salad that eats like a meal.