Curried Vegetable and Chickpea Stew

Freezer meals are the superheroes of busy weeknight dinners. They swoop in when you’re in a tight spot, like when you’re just back from vacation and don’t have time for the grocery store, or when you come home late from work and would rather hang out with your family than cook. Freezer meals save the day.

Today we’re rounding up our favorite make-ahead vegetarian freezer meals, from the best-ever veggie burgers (they’re no joke), to vegetable burritos, and an easy green minestrone. If you have an afternoon to spare in the kitchen, you’ll have a multitude of meals to see you through the summer.

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I would place “How to Quickly Cook Fish Fillets” right up there with other essential cooking skills like boiling eggs and cooking a pot of rice. If you can cook a fish fillet, you can have a healthy, easy dinner on the table in 10 minutes. Or less! It’s such a simple and versatile weeknight meal. Here’s how to do it.

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June 21, 2014: 7:28 AM Eastern Daylight Time

Summer Solstice, from the Latin sol (sun) and sistere (to stand still), the so-called longest day of the year. It’s the time to celebrate the sun and summertime and all that it offers: sticky, prodigious watermelons, velvety stone fruit, resolute zucchinis and bold, Rabelaisian tomatoes. Fireflies and fireworks and fire escapes. The opportunity to wear white linen shirts and buy too many ears of corn at the farmers market, or sit back and reap the rewards for your labors in the garden (resolute zucchinis indeed). This is the time of radiance and extroversion and plentitude. Don’t sit it out!

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