Recent favorites.

Looking for a new chocolate chip cookie recipe to try? Perhaps a new favorite salad or pasta recipe? Here’s a roundup of my very favorite recipes from recent weeks.

Grandma’s glazed strawberry pie.

Make this easy fresh strawberry pie now while berries are abundantly in season. Use a pre-baked crust of your choosing.

The Clara Project: easy puffy omelet.

This classic fluffy omelet is lightly textured and egg-ily delicious. Top it with a scattering of minced fresh herbs for an easy brunch or lunch.

Quick refrigerator pickles.

Grilling burgers or ribs for Dad this weekend? Whip up a batch of these easy, fresh-tasting quick refrigerator pickles for a just-right side dish.

What to do with garlic scapes.

I’ve spotted them—in my own garden and at farmers’ markets—just in the last week: Garlic scapes. Hooray! What is a garlic scape, you ask? The scape is the little curlicue sprout that shoots from the top …

Lunchbox salad with chicken, carrot and fennel.

This fresh-tasting salad of chicken and vegetables is a perfectly packable lunch to take to work. Use store-bought cooked chicken to make it super easy.