Tailgate Chili Is A Winner Usually, vegetables get short shrift in a tailgater's spread in favor of copious quantities of red meat, especially when all the tailgaters are guys. Try this special Tailgate Chili, made with turkey, beans and grilled vegetables, for a healthier end-run around such unbalanced fare.

The Savory Side of Chocolate From a steaming cup of cocoa to brownies and fudge, chocolate is associated so closely with sweets that we rarely think of enjoying its rich flavor in savory dishes.

The Secret of Hoison Sauce Americans know hoisin sauce as the chocolate-colored, jam-thick condiment used on the pancakes served with Peking Duck. Incorrectly, some also call it barbecue sauce, although it is only one of a blend of ingredients Chinese cooks use for flavoring roasted meats and poultry.

Reviving Chicken Cacciatora As the local tomato season ends, chicken cacciatora, hearty but not heavy, is a perfect way to enjoy tomatoes in the winter because it is best made using processed tomatoes.

Discover Creamy Tuscan-Style Beans Tuscan cooking is famous for its simplicity. Like the best cooking in the rest of Italy, it is a feast of regional dishes using locally-produced ingredients. But in Tuscany, these dishes are often minimal in terms of the number of ingredients used. Includes recipe for Tuscan-Style Beans.

Feast On Vegetable Soup When the weather turns cold, soup is a great chill-chaser. For busy folks, soup is also a great time-saver. But no matter the weather or the time pressures, soup is an easy and efficient way to slip in extra servings of vegetables. Includes recipe for Creamy Vegetable Soup.

Celebrating Autumn In Both Cold And Warm Climates When the leaves of autumn turn gold, they often bring to mind favorite fall events – Halloween, homecomings and Thanksgiving, to mention just a few. And, now that the weather is cooler if not downright nippy, autumn also turns thoughts to favorite dishes.

Toss Together A Three-Season Salad Looking around a farmer's market recently, I noticed how the orange bell peppers, Golden Delicious apples and purple-red cabbage echoed the colors of the autumn trees. Their flavors, though, brought together the mood of three seasons. Includes recipe for Three Season Red Cabbage Salad.

A Colorful Shrimp Stir-Fry If you like shrimp, as many do, it's the best selling seafood in America – and love sweet summer corn, here is the perfect dish for a quick and colorful meal.

Beefsteak Tomatoes: No Longer A Local Treat Depending on where you live, about this time of year summer creates an abundance of immense, vine-bending tomatoes known as Jersey Beefsteaks. Happily, the season for these beauties, often weighing a pound or more, lasts through September and sometimes even into October.

A Sicilian Main Dish For Al Fresco Dining While outdoor cooking is mostly casual, it is good to remember that outdoor eating may be anything from an impromptu, ant-invaded roadside picnic to a carefully arranged and romantic candle-lit dinner on fine china. Includes recipe for Grilled Red Pepper and Spinach Antipasto.

Go Asian With A Meatless Satay Grilling is great, but backyard cooking can be a challenge when you want to emphasize vegetables and legumes. Try these tasty Kebabs with Peanut Dipping Sauce.

Be Generous With The Salsa At every single meal, Mexicans serve a simple fresh salsa made with tomatoes, jalapenos and onions. More than a zesty condiment, salsa is also a healthy veggie dish that can be eaten liberally.

A Perfect Summer Chili We call it chili, shortening the name from its original, chili con carne, the dish chuck wagon cooks in the Southwest made to feed the he-man appetites of cowboys working cattle at the ranch and out on the range.