When you're in the mood to treat yourself -- or cooking a dinner to impress -- a good, hearty steak always does the trick. Here are 7 recipes for the superlatives of steak; 7 recipes to do your piece of meat proud. You deserve it -- and a glass of red, to boot.

Tomatoes are the beauty queens of summer: beautiful, a bit high-maintenance, and occasionally prone to bursting. And they're not afraid to break your heart: tomatoes just aren't worth eating in any season but the summer. As red as a hothouse tomato looks, it can't compare to the juicy, intense flavor of a sun-ripened sungold at farmers' market.

This dinner is a serious contender for simplest Dinner Tonight menu ever.

Do you use the Hotline? If you haven't been lately, you're missing out -- between discussions about mint and peaches, questions about FOOD52 recipes, and discussions about canning, it's a lively place. Here are our top 5 Hotline questions of the week.

Amanda shows us three ways to tell if a steak is medium rare.

Inspiration for tonight's dinner: just good food. A steak, medium-rare please, and some tangy, goat cheesy mashed potatoes.