A lunch of homemade empanadas is much less likely to be rejected than a tired old PB & J.

Serve this dish hot or cold.

A take on the Filipino dish ginisang munggo.

Packed with delectable goodness.

A traditional Filipino vegetable dish.

It's time to grab the apron, fire up the grill, and revel in the last bit of summer BBQ season.

Thin sweet potato slices are shingled into muffin cups, bathed in a nutmeg-scented cream sauce of Parmesan, goat cheese, thyme, and rosemary, and baked into golden, flower-shaped bites.

The stick-to-your-ribs appeal of chicken and dumplings deepens as the evenings cool down.

The dish makes an excellent starter or a Meatless Monday entrée.