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Lunch

In this collection you will find all of my favorite lunch recipes including this vegan “tuna” salad recipe, made with chickpeas, these sweet potato and black bean burritos, and this one-pot favorite lentil soup recipe.

Eight just-baked Overnight Sandwich Rolls on a sheet pan.

No-Knead Overnight Sandwich Rolls

A warm spinach salad on a plate.

Alice Waters’s Warm Spinach Salad

This sandwich, with toasted bread, rubbed with garlic, drizzled with olive oil, sprinkled with salt, moistened with a squeezed tomato and topped with jamón Iberico, is easily the most delicious sandwich on the face of the earth. // alexandracooks.com

Pan Con Tomate with Prosciutto di Parma

This ‘nduja grilled cheese includes Wisconsin fontina, a great melting cheese, and basil pesto, to offer a fresh counterpoint to the richness of the pâte-like spread. In keeping with the Italian theme, I sandwiched the three ingredients between thick slices of ciabatta, whose porous crumb so nicely absorbed the flavors of the spicy ‘nduja and sweet, earthy fontina. Yum. // alexandracooks.com

‘Nduja Grilled Cheese with Wisconsin Fontina & Basil Pesto

This freekeh salad is my favorite kind of recipe, one whose assembly is fluid — as the vegetables roast in the oven, the freekeh cooks stovetop, and you make the dressing — and whose payoff is big: minimal mess and a meal that's at once light and comforting. // alexandracooks.com

Freekeh Salad with Roasted Kale & Cabbage

A bowl of tomato soup.

Super Easy Pantry Tomato Soup

Croque madame — croque monsieur topped with a poached egg — on a cutting board.

How to Make Croque Monsieur and Croque Madame

Kimchi fried rice in a bowl.

Vegan Kimchi Fried Rice

Tortillas & Blossoms

This vegetable chow mein is much more than a tasty-enough weeknight meal—it is a tangle of saucy noodles and vegetables, and it’s fast becoming a family favorite. It works as well with spaghetti as with soba noodles, with asparagus as with broccoli, with or without protein. Moreover, the adaptations are endless // alexandracooks.com

Vegetable Chow Mein-ish with Asparagus

The custard, a ratio of 1 cup crème fraîche to 1 cup whole milk to 5 eggs, makes Tartine's Swiss chard quiche so fabulous. It's smooth with a slight tang and utterly delicious. // alexandracooks.com

Tartine’s Quiche

In these skirt steak sandwiches, skirt steak, which cooks to medium-rare in just about 5 minutes, is layered with arugula between slices of focaccia smeared with herbed mayonnaise. The key, as with all meats, is to let the steak rest for at least 10 minutes before slicing, and with skirt steak, to slice it thinly against the grain. // alexandracooks.com

Weeknight Skirt Steak Sandwiches with Herbed Mayonnaise and Arugula