Fast Easy Recipes

Bulgur an old, healthy grain
This is the second of four quick meals featuring ancient grains, from cookbook author Maria Speck. She calls bulgur, made from durum wheat, "ancient fast food." It is now widely available at grocery stores as well as at Middle Eastern markets and health foodorganic stores.

Roslindale Community Kitchen is in good taste
Chopping bright green sprigs of mint and parsley, Christine Tobin and Lauren Morse worked their way through a recipe for bulgur and chickpea salad as other participants in the second Roslindale Community Kitchen prepared various vegetarian dishes Saturday.

Under the weather? Deploy chicken soup
Much like my mother and grandmother, I believe in the curative power of chicken soup. Whether it's to stifle a cough, soothe a cold or shed a chill, no other comfort food comes close.