Season Types: Winter

This dish is impressive and easy—and can grace both a weeknight or celebration table. Serve with a garlicky wild rice pilaf that has sautéed butternut squash and chopped winter kale stirred into it.

Meatballs in a savory herbal cream sauce are a favorite food in Sweden, as part of annual midsummer celebrations. Take advantage of seasonal fresh herbs to flavor the creamy gravy-style sauce that complements tender chunks of chicken—a quicker take on making meatballs. Serve a bowlful as part of a buffet.

Traditionally a shepherd’s pie contains leftover roasted lamb–an easy way to use leftovers in a comforting one-dish recipe. This version is updated using fresh chicken and topped with mashed golden potatoes and cauliflower—a modern nod to upping the veggie ante in a rustic home style recipe.

This version of stroganoff—which most often is made with beef and takes much longer to cook—is elegant enough for a New Year’s celebration but won’t take you away from the party. Using a nice pour of champagne, which is similar to cooking with a slightly sweet white wine, adds a fun twist that fits the season.

Chicken breasts are dipped in egg, coated with a Parmesan cheese bread crumb mixture, then sautéed and served with homemade potato chips seasoned with rosemary and a delicious dip of mayonnaise and Parmesan.

This 5-ingredient recipe was created by Alison B. and was selected as a runner up in the Just Bare^® Just 5 Cooking Challenge in 2011.

Serve this sweetly garlicky chicken over a grainy pilaf that will soak up the flavorful sauce. Run the pan under the broiler if you’d like to crisp up the chicken skin.

“Red-cooking” is a Chinese method for braising meats in soy sauce. This simple way to braise bone-in thighs is a balance of salty and sweet, with the aromatics of anise and cinnamon. Serve tangy-sweet red onions and steamed jasmine rice.

This old-fashioned wine-braised chicken is done in half the time in an electric pressure multi-cooker. Serve with garlic mashed potatoes and roasted Brussels sprouts or other favorite autumn root vegetables.

When sun-kissed plums are at their peak, so are other luscious stone fruits, like apricots, nectarines, or pluots—a cross between plums and apricots.