Week of Meals: Recipe developer and writer Thea Baumann's recipes

Ben Mims
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LOS ANGELES CA, SEPT. 24, 2021: October 2021, month of meals recipes - Penne with Sauteed Garlic, Cauliflower and Chiles Lamb Zucchini Burgers with Yogurt Sauce and Arugula Salad Chickpea, Escarole and Tomato Soup with Breadcrumbs One-Pot Lentils and Rice with Spinach and Cauliflower Roasted Chicken Legs with Fennel and Arugula Salad photographed for the Los Angeles Times food column on Friday Sept. 24, 2021 at Proplink Studios in Arts District Los Angeles. Prop Styling by Kate Parisan.
The latest installment in our series of weeknight meals uses lots of Italian flavors for simple, quick cooking. Prop Styling by Kate Parisian. (Jennifer Chong/For The Times)

This is the seventh installment in our Week of Meals series, which gives you five weeknight dinner recipes with all the planning and strategizing built in. Each meal makes four servings, comes together — start to finish — in less than 60 minutes, and requires 10 or fewer ingredients (not counting cooking oil, salt and pepper or water). The groceries for all five meals can be bought from a single grocery store in a single shopping trip and will cost less than $100.

This round of weeknight recipes comes from Thea Baumann, a writer and recipe developer who lives in the Frogtown neighborhood. Her recipes maximize Italian flavors in the shortest amount of time possible and with the least amount of work, relying on consistent seasoning, healthy doses of lemon juice to perk up everything, and plenty of olive oil to maximize crunchy, rich and bold flavors.

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This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.