Set your abandoned vegetables free, in just 5 steps.  

Get beautiful, evenly-sized broccoli florets -- every time.

A soup to take you on an adventure.

Take one head of cauliflower. Add almost nothing. Serves two.

Watch Cleo and Julia make Cauliflower + Red Lentil Curry.

See how Cleo and Julia make Roasted Cauliflower with Tahini + Preserved Lemon Dressing.

Along with peas, broccoli and cauliflower are vegetables that are easy to malign when cooked poorly -- "stale and murky," our senior editor Kristen calls them. But treated right in a slaw, a batch of roasted vegetables, or pesto, broccoli, cauliflower, and their ilk can be downright classy. Today we tackle a bevy of brassicas, floret by floret.

A colorful meal this is not. But what it lacks in hue, it delivers in complexity and comfort.