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Updated May 24, 2017
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Yellow Wax Bean and Radish Salad with Cannellinis
These delicious eco-friendly recipes include skillet-charred cherry tomatoes with basil and chicken breasts with apricot-onion pan sauce.
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Green Bean –and– Tomato Salad with Tarragon Dressing

Green Bean-and-Tomato Salad with Tarragon Dressing
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This supersimple bean-and-tomato salad, tossed with a tarragon-flavored dressing, is perfect for picnics, like the kind Paul Virant’s mother would prepare when he was a child. "She would make tomato salad, potato salad and fried chicken the night before, so we’d have everything ready the next day," he says.

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Roasted Radishes with Radish Greens

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Gerard Craft came up with this clever recipe one year when his local farmer had an abundance of radishes. Craft tried roasting them. The result: warm, crisp-tender radishes with delightfully bitter greens, which he finishes with butter and lemon.

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Skillet-Charred Cherry Tomatoes with Basil

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Chris Cosentino remembers charring tomatoes when he was a line cook under chef Mark Miller at Red Sage in Washington, DC. "Mark always said, 'It needs fleck,'" Cosentino says, referring to the blackened bits on the skins. "The fire brings out the sweetness in the tomatoes."

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Chicken Breasts with Apricot-Onion Pan Sauce

Chicken Breasts with Apricot-Onion Pan Sauce
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After sautéing chicken breasts, Melissa Rubel adds diced onions and white wine to sweep up the delicious browned bits left in the skillet, then sweetens the sauce slightly with dried apricots and apricot preserves.

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Warm Potato Salad with Arugula

Warm Potato Salad with Arugula
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Paul Virant puts a spin on the classic side dish by tossing warm potatoes with a mustardy vinaigrette and handfuls of arugula. "I grow a lot of arugula in my garden," he says. "It’s so easy to grow, it’s a joke. A farmer once said to me that if everyone who had enough space planted a garden, we could produce enough food to feed the entire country. I don’t know how that would work, but it’s fun to think about."

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Free-Form Onion Tart

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At Cavallo Point, cooking school director Kelsie Kerr teaches the basics of preparing seasonal recipes. The buttery dough for her savory onion tart, for instance, is great with all kinds of fillings, like fruit.

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Mustard-Glazed Chicken with Arugula and Bok Choy

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Takashi Yagihashi glazes chicken legs in a mustard sauce; on the side are buttery bok choy and a generously dressed salad. In the healthier way, opt for chicken breasts instead of legs, cook the bok choy in a minimal amount of oil (no butter) and dress the salad lightly with oil, soy sauce and rice wine vinegar.

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Three-Pea Salad

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This combination of sugar snap peas, snow peas and green peas—dressed in a sherry vinaigrette blended with a touch of sour cream—is clever and delicious.

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Yellow Wax Bean and Radish Salad with Cannellinis

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For a crunchy salad, Chris Cosentino tosses yellow wax beans, radish slivers, red onion slices, cannellini beans and fresh basil in a simple vinaigrette. To save time, you can also substitute canned cannellinis for the dried ones here.

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    1 of 9 Green Bean –and– Tomato Salad with Tarragon Dressing
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    3 of 9 Skillet-Charred Cherry Tomatoes with Basil
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