Eating

It's seasonally abundant, cheap and everywhere right now. The sweetness of the caramelized soffrito vegetables is great with the deep, dark kale flavor. A great Way to get to know this unusually flavorful green. On National Kale Day!

20 cents for the best hors d'oeuvre at the party. The sweetness of roasted beets with tart, spicy mustard-lemon dressing on warm, soft sugarless shortcake. A slider packed with Vitamins B and C and a lot of minerals but very few calories.

A great old-fashion breakfast in a new package: eggs, milk, butter, flour and coffee dressed up as Espresso Pudding Cake. Have your coffee and eat it, too. Have some for dinner dessert. Wake up tomorrow and have some more for National Coffee Day breakfast.

Easy to eat well. Not as easy to walk up the mountain to this medieval village overlooking the Mediterranean. A serious climb from Sea level to a place pronounced "ezz". You'll burn more good, healthy calories than you swallow on this Walk.

Super creamy. Garlic-scented. Earthier, deeper, darker than spinach. Mellow, not bitter. A luscious vegetable dish with a near zero Glycemic Load and enough Vitamins A, C and K to make this a high-powered natural nutritional supplement.

Maybe the best Way to cook broccoli and every other cool weather vegetable. The Way they do it in Rome. On the border between tender and crisp. Enriched by olive oil, brightened by lemon. Perfumed by garlic, charged by chile. 10 minutes to prepare greatness.

So satisfying and so easy. Truly luscious. Make this soon. The weather's cooling and farmers everywhere are pulling their onions. A few minutes of stirring and you'll have the happiest mouth in town.

30 minutes today gives your tongue months of pleasure. Starting 30 minutes from now. C'mon, a few minutes of slicing and chopping + 10 minutes of stirring = Peach Chutney all Fall and Winter. Bright, sweet, tart, spicy and mellow. All at once.

Easy and exotic. Even when you use a big old regular pot on your stove instead of the traditional terra cotta cooker. It's the spices. They turn a simple stovetop stew into a wildly fragrant cool-weather feast.n

A luscious, impressive vegetable course featuring some of the season's greatest hits. You'll be amazed you made it yourself. Easily. If you love these vegetables, you'll love them even more. If you're a cauliflower and/or broccoli denier, this'll convert you to a lover.