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Easy Roast Chicken with Asparagus and Leeks

One of the great things about spring is that it provides you with a plethora of vegetables that need only brief cooking stints to become delicious. This makes them the perfect companion for a roast chicken dinner. Simply roast your chicken, have your vegetable prepped, then cook them while the chicken rests. All of your food comes out piping hot at the exact same time.

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10 Salads We Love

As much as we love our mac and cheese and hearty stews, we're starting to crave vibrant, fresh salads. Oh hey there, spring! Here are 10 beautiful ones that incorporate crisp veggies, juicy fruits, and refreshing vinaigrettes. What salads put you in the springtime mood?

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Spice Hunting: Dill Weed

If I had to pick an herb for versatility, ease of use, and intensive flavor, dill would win hands-down. (Sure, you could say parsley, but how many ingredients does parsley actually go with rather than just gussy up?) And as spring has hit in earnest, I've been revisiting the herb these past few weeks to give it all the love I can.

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Three Ramp Recipes

When I wrote about ramps last week, I completely neglected to include some tasty recipes. Here are three: pickled ramps, ramp dumplings, and fried eggs with ramps with bacon.

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Enough with the Ramp Rage!

While admittedly, there has been a rather unnatural craze for ramps in the food media for the last couple of years—much of it blamed on chefs and their ubiquitous use of the vegetable on menus during its brief, one-month harvesting season—I believe this is a good thing. Ramps aren't over-appreciated now, they were vastly underappreciated in the past.

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Weekend Cook and Tell Round Up: Spring Frenzy

For last week's Weekend Cook and Tell challenge we asked all of you to get excited for spring (not really all that much of a challenge) and tell us about your early spring vegetable-centric adventures. We dubbed this "Spring Frenzy," and it certainly triggered a frenzy of spring produce giddiness surrounding all of this week's contributions. Let's take a look at your creations with the new crops.

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Serious Entertaining: Early Spring Dinner

March 20 is the first official day of spring! Fine, so real spring is still a few tantalizing weeks away. But lord, don't we all wish it was here already? Until real spring arrives, let's fake it with what is available, including citrus, salmon, and peas.

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Market Scene: Spring at the Ferry Plaza Farmers' Market in San Francisco

With the farmers' markets picking up again, it's time to return to our weekly Market Scene series. Each Monday, one of our various correspondents will check in with what's fresh at farmstands, what's coming up, and what you better get while the gettin's good. This week, we hear from San Francisco correspondent Jennifer Maiser who reports on fava beans, rhubarb, asparagus, and more at the Ferry Plaza farmers' market.

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Weekend Cook and Tell Round Up: Spring Greening

For last week's Weekend Cook and Tell challenge we asked all of you to get inspired by spring vegetables and cook up a warm weather vegetable-centric dish. This was one of our most verdant Cook and Tells yet—let's take a look at some of our freshest responses.

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Quiz: How Much Do You Know About Spring Vegetables?

With Spring here, you can take a break from the cabbage and beets and start paying attention to the new crop of vegetables popping up at the markets. How much do you know about these tasty veggies (besides that they signal warmer weather)? Take our quiz! »

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