Sam Sifton

This recipe, a riff on pan con tomate, calls for rubbing garlicky toasts with a halved tomato before applying, yes, more tomato.

Lean into the long weekend with jerk chicken and coconut rice, hot dogs, a big tomato salad and no-bake cheesecake bars.

Start with Roberta’s pizza dough, then try your hand at a clam-chowder pie.

The chef Alex Henry bucks tradition with a citrusy, garlicky, earthy mixture for sliced rib-eye.

Meera Sodha’s classic recipe, rich with deep flavors of cinnamon and cumin above a low flame of chiles, needs mopping up with naan.

Sweet and sour with a peppery kick you can mellow out with dollops of yogurt.

It’s the sort of meal you ought to make after a day of airline snacks or conference-room repasts, and definitely on Friday nights.

Both the fruit and cider go into this supremely seasonal recipe for apple cider chicken with apples and parsnips.

For your Sunday supper: hearty pasta al sugo finto, a vegetarian ragù that’s flavorful and frugal.

Nargisse Benkabbou’s hearty and fragrant beef tagine with green beans, olives and preserved lemons, that is.