Rosemary

Maine Lobster with Wild Mushrooms and Rosemary Vapor

This dish combines aroma and flavor in a unique fashion: Bowls of steaming rosemary vapor accompany the luxurious main course. The piney fragrance of fresh rosemary adds another dimension to the taste experience.

Grilled Flank Steak

Roast Turkey with Herb Butter and Caramelized-Onion Gravy

A superb pairing from cooking teacher and recipe developer Rochelle Palermo Torres.

Pasta and Bean Soup

Pasta e Fagioli Venetians prize a soup made thick by using mashed beans. This recipe is based on the preparations at Venice's Fiaschetteria Toscana and Osteria alla Bomba. A tablespoon of salt may sound like a lot, but it is needed to bring out the beans' flavor.

Grilled Tuscan Pork Rib Roast with Rosemary Coating and Red Pepper Relish

This technique works best with a charcoal grill, but you can also use a gas grill as long as it has a built-in thermometer or a hole in the top for inserting the candy thermometer.

Salt-Baked Branzino

For this recipe, David Pasternack uses "unrefined" sea salt, which has no additives such as iodine or those that prevent caking, so these salts are often moist. He also told us we could coat the fish with an additive-free kosher salt. It worked nicely but required more egg whites (6 total).

Tomato, Eggplant and Black Olive Sauce with Rosemary

This is enough sauce for two pounds of pasta; it's good with fusilli, orecchiette or linguine.

Grilled Butterflied Leg of Lamb and Vegetables with Lemon-Herb Dressing

You'll want to get this started a day ahead.

Grilled Leg of Lamb with Rosemary Salt

Veal Chops with Rosemary Butter

You can start preparing these one day ahead. What to drink: A svelte red Burgundy from the Côte de Nuits or a Pinot Noir from Oregon's Willamette Valley.

Baked Baby Back Ribs with Lemon Confit Marinade

In a classic confit, meat cooks (and is then preserved) in its own fat. Here, lemons cook in their own juices to become the basis for an overnight marinade.

Pacific Salmon with Roasted Garlic

Steam sugar snap peas and pour a Chardonnay to go with this dinner.

Rosemary Mashed Potatoes

Braised-Lamb Shank Shepherd's Pie with Creamed Spinach

Our food editors agree that this is one of the best-tasting and most elegant shepherd's pies they've ever had. The recipe is not as complicated as it appears at first glance—the different components all come together to make a complete meal in a single dish. The potatoes are stiffer than the average mash because they will be forming the crust for the pie.