This is a late-summer harvest tossed with a hearty plateful of pasta and topped with lots of grated parmesan cheese. Vinegar and basil keep end-of-season produce tasting fresh and bright. One taste and you’ll be making this a lot earlier next year.

Classic Italian flavors — sweet summer tomatoes, bitter, salty capers and a bright red wine vinaigrette loaded with fresh basil and oregano — come together with Farfalle bowties for a quick, fresh and clean pasta salad ready for your next cookout. It might inspire your guests, like mine, to say this is the best pasta salad ever.

Classic Carbonara is rich, decadent and delicious. Sweet pork, eggs and salty, sharp cheese blend with starchy pasta cooking water to make a creamy sauce. Fresh asparagus gives it a little spring lightness.

Beyond being beautiful, briny squid ink pasta balances rich Alfredo sauce with the sweet, vegetal notes of fresh pumpkin purée in this striking fall plate.

This Mediterranean-inspired chicken, lemon and egg soup is both rich and bright-tasting. It’s hearty enough to enjoy for lunch after a morning spent playing out in the snow, while the lemon and spinach will find you still enjoying it as the first daffodils push out of the ground.