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Chef Stephanie Izard's recipe for empanadas is easy to adjust based on what you have in your refrigerator and pantry.

Love tuna salad, but looking for a different way to use the thrifty tinned fish?

In this vibrant spring salad, carrots and scallions are thinly sliced into ribbons and marinated in quick pickle-like fashion, so they are infused with a bright, herb-flecked pucker.

Dark chocolate, a sprinkle of sea salt and cannabis-infused butter (cannabutter) come together for the ultimate take on the iconic edible.

This dish is incredibly flexible.

This simple lemon syrup made from the lemon juice, zest, sugar and water takes minutes to put together and is great to have on hand whenever you want to fix a lemony recipes.

This recipe has only five ingredients and takes 20 minutes, if that.

This simple olive oil dough requires no kneading and makes enough for four 1-pound portions that can be used for focaccia, pizza, calzones and cinnamon rolls, for starters.

With their billowing dome and custardy centers, popovers appear impressive and complicated, but they require just a handful of ingredients, a bowl and a whisk.

If you have sourdough starter, you can make these crumpets in 15 minutes, no additional flour needed.