Wonderful spring recipes.

The calendar says spring; the weather, not so much. Here are 6 great spring recipes to inspire you to eat seasonally, from pasta to salad to dessert.

Simple pasta with vegetables.

This simple pasta recipe is endlessly flexible: Use any combination of vegetables that you like. Be sure to choose orecchiette pasta, whose bowl shape works perfectly here.

Cheesy pasta with arugula and mushrooms.

This creamy pasta recipe is incredibly easy, with a terrific combination of flavors that I hadn’t considered putting together before.

Grilled red bell pepper and egg sandwich.

This grilled red bell pepper and egg sandwich, an Italian classic, is ridiculously easy and ridiculously good.

Spaghetti squash with chard and ricotta cream.

This wonderful fall recipe combines spaghetti squash with Swiss chard and creamy ricotta cheese, with unexpectedly delicious results.

Spaghetti squash with corn and toasted garlic.

Rob and I totally “mmmmmm”ed over this dish of spaghetti squash with buttery corn and toasted garlic when we had it for dinner recently.

Creamy vegetable chowder.

This vegetable soup has a sweet-corn base, with a confetti of brightly colored summer vegetables. Flavorful, low-cal and low-fat, to boot!

Farro risotto with summer corn.

We love LOVE risotto. Love making it, love eating it. Risotto has reputation of being kind of a pain in the tuchus to make, what with all the constant stirring. It takes awhile to bubble and …