Creamy Shrimp Dip With Shallots, Dill, and Lemon

The key to making the most delicious shrimp? Baking soda, salt, and the right cooking method. For a creamy and satisfying dip, mix tender, just-poached shrimp with sour cream, mayonnaise, herbs, and fresh lemon juice.

Make-Ahead Quinoa Salad With Cucumber, Tomato, and Herbs

Loosely based on Middle Eastern tabbouleh salad, this easy make-ahead salad combines grape tomatoes (sweet and ripe any time of year) with cucumber, parsley, mint, and quinoa for a bright and refreshing make-ahead salad that's hearty enough to serve as a light meal.

Make-Ahead Chickpea Salad With Cumin and Celery

A simple salad of chickpeas dressed in a light vinaigrette flavored with cumin, shallots, and olive oil. Crunchy celery and parsley finish it off. This is the kind of salad that gets better as it sits—Make it one night and pack it for lunch at the office or on a picnic the next day.

Spicy Shrimp with Avocado and Arugula Salad

A quick and healthy summer salad that's topped with spicy shrimp.

Seven-Layer Make-Ahead Salad With Chickpeas, Endive, and Yogurt Dressing

Let's admit it: A seven-layer salad is really just garnished mayonnaise. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing, but it's potluck food—not exactly the kind of dish you'd serve at a dinner party or holiday gathering. It's too bad, because the seven-layer salad offers one really serious advantage to the harried home cook: It's meant to be made ahead. You can assemble the whole thing several hours in advance and place it on the table with no need for further dressing or futzing. I decided to take ...

Make-Ahead Marinated Mushrooms with Kale, Shaved Carrots and Parmesan

The beauty of marinated mushrooms is you can't really go wrong; you can marinate them in pretty much whatever you have on hand. If you have fresh herbs, definitely throw those in there, and minced shallots would work great, too. This is ideal for a lunch box because the mushroom marinade doubles as your salad dressing, and because this salad is all about sturdy vegetables, nothing will wilt before lunchtime.

Plump and Tender Shrimp Cocktail

Shrimp cocktail may be simple, but there are still details that go into making it the best it can be. For the plumpest, juiciest, tastiest shrimp, we start by poaching them in a flavorful broth.

Spicy Shrimp and Green Apple Salad

A quick salad of shrimp, apples, tomatoes, and herbs in a fish sauce and lime juice dressing, this can be served as a stand-alone salad or, as the Thai people often do, with rice as an entrée.

Creamy Cucumber Salad

A crunchy, creamy cucumber salad made with tahini, lemon, and fresh dill.

Sālād-é-Shirāzi (Persian Cucumber and Tomato Salad)

Sālād-é-Shirāzi (Persian Cucumber and Tomato Salad) is a popular Iranian salad featuring a combination of cucumbers, tomatoes, and onions that is refreshing, simple, and quick to make.