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Look for stunningly red-fleshed blood oranges, which are just coming into season, to make this salad.

As you stir-fry this quick-and-healthful dish, the perfume from the warming spices and sesame oil will rejuvenate you after a long day at work or time spent out in the cold. If you can’t find extra-firm silken tofu, opt for extra-firm or firm tofu to ensure that the cubes remain intact. Serve with cooked rice.

Oven-fried sweet potatoes can be tricky because the potatoes’ high moisture content makes it difficult for them to “fry,” and their ample sugar causes them to burn easily. Okinawan sweet potatoes work well here because of their dry texture, but a dusting of potato starch helps keep all varieties crisp.

Puréed sweet potato, cocoa, almond flour, and eggs yield a rich, dense, and fudgy cake perfect for chocolate lovers.

Whole chia seeds add nutritional punch and crunch to these chocolate treats.

This pie's got everything—a nutty crust, a rich filling, and plenty of pecans.

This recipe, created by Ricki Blau, won third place in VT's 2009 Reader Recipe Contest. Blau's family and friends range from omnivores to vegans, so when they gather for holidays she likes to prepare food they can all share. Blau put this recipe together last October when she hosted a few Canadian-American families for Thanksgiving dinner.

Working toward her master’s in social work, Adrianne Dickson, who won first place in VT's 2009 Reader Recipe Contest for this recipe, still finds time to read cookbooks for fun. “I first developed this recipe while living in Montana after my boyfriend told me he loved pot pie,” she explains. “I started making the crust in a bag when we were working as raft guides and didn’t have any place to roll out a crust.”

"I grew up on a secluded dirt road called Heritage Lane, and every Thanksgiving my family would pick wild cranberries and make this sauce for our guests," reminisces Eden Hommes, who received honorable mention in VT's 2009 Reader Recipe Contest for this recipe.

Browning the flour helps give this gravy a rich, nutty flavor.