SAM SIFTON

With a nutty, crunchy bread crumb topping.

A dry brine gives you firmer, juicier fish fillets with kettle-chip-crisp skin.

Pecorino and pancetta elevate eggs, black pepper punches up chicken, and lemon and capers make mushrooms into a piccata.

Also soothing and satisfying: crisp gnocchi with sausage and peas, soy sauce noodles with cabbage and fried eggs.

But we have plenty for when you do, including a springtime soup of sausage and tortellini, and the perfect sushi rice for the freshest fish.

Pile some young spring greens — or chopped clams, or Korean fire chicken — on your pizza.

Easy but substantial: bricklayer-style nachos with puntas al albañil, and one-pot tortellini with meat sauce.

Steam your deviled eggs, chop up your pesto and stir-fry your noodles in a Dutch oven.

Sticky honey-ginger drumsticks, blackened cauliflower and nori rice.

Stuffed peppers, carne asada and more recipes.