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Bright colors make salads more appealing and give you a different taste you can't get enough of!

Slow cooker bean and grain stew with chickpeas, lima beans, navy beans, barley, and millet in herbed tomato sauce. A dump-and-go vegan crockpot meal loaded with plant protein and fiber.

Traditional Scottish Highland oatcakes made with just 4 ingredients: oatmeal, salt, lard, and hot water. Griddle-cooked and oven-dried for a crisp, nutty flatbread.

Lebanese eggplant casserole layered with mushrooms, tomatoes, garlic, and basil, baked until bubbly. A vegan-friendly vegetable bake with Mediterranean flavor and a lightly thickened sauce.

Vegetarian nori rolls (murreita) wrap brown rice, mung sprouts, carrot, cucumber, daikon, and umeboshi plum in toasted nori. A macrobiotic-style sushi roll with no fish required.

Shrimp with mango and basil sears turmeric-spiced shrimp and tosses them with ripe mango cubes, scallion greens, and fresh basil. Tropical-bright weeknight dinner.

Smashed green olives marinated with lemon chunks, roasted fennel seeds, and chili heat for bold Mediterranean appetizers that keep for 4 weeks.

Slow cooker sweet and sour shrimp with pineapple chunks and snow peas in a ginger-soy glaze. Hands-off cooking, served over hot rice. Set it before work, eat like royalty after.

Chicken thighs marinated in balsamic vinegar, white wine, lemon zest, and thyme, then simmered until tender. The marinade reduces into a glossy, tangy pan sauce you'll want to pour over everything.

A no-mayo potato salad tossed in a basil-white wine vinaigrette and studded with fresh blueberries, cucumber, and carrots. Light, colorful, and cookout-ready in 20 minutes.

Swiss gingerbread from Lucerne with pear purée, walnuts, whole wheat flour and a warming mix of star anise, cloves, cinnamon and ginger. Traditional Lebkuchen-style holiday bake.

Traditional Indian chickpea masala slow-simmered with cumin seeds, turmeric, asafetida, green chili, and fresh ginger. Finished with lemon juice and cilantro for a bright, warming bowl.

Vegan beet borscht with apple cider, caraway seeds, and molasses simmered for hours then partially pureed for rich, complex vegetarian soup served hot or cold.

No-bake chocolate butterscotch clusters with crunchy chow mein noodles and cashews. Four ingredients, 10 minutes, four dozen pieces - no oven required.

Lemonade cake roll made with frozen lemonade concentrate in both the sponge and the vanilla whip filling. A tangy, citrus-packed rolled dessert with a powdered sugar finish.

This brown sugar angel food cake swaps plain white sugar for molasses-rich brown sugar, giving each cloud-soft slice a deep caramel flavor. Light, fat-free, and whipped to tall, airy perfection from a dozen egg whites.