Five Weeknight Dishes: Go ahead and double the greens in these recipes

By Mia Leimkuhler, The New York Times

I am a grown woman who enjoys eating her vegetables. I say this not as a terrifically awkward introduction, but as a reminder to myself. When it’s cold and dark and somehow only Wednesday, I tend to slide into dinners that resemble those an unsupervised toddler would assemble: chips and salsa, a fistful of cookies, a piece of cheese with five slices of bread.

Which is why I’ve begun seeking out — and cooking on repeat — recipes that welcome increasing their vegetable matter, particularly those good-for-you leafy greens. Am I essentially hiding vegetables from myself? Yes. Am I effortlessly upping the nutritional and virtuous content of my easy dinner? Also yes.

A note that several of the recipes that follow are on the spicy side — I love a bit of heat, especially when it’s cold out. But if that’s not you, or the lucky people you’re cooking for, just pull back the amounts of spicy things called for i...