In this age of bacon worship, it’s time to make a case for the “t” in BLT. The humble bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwich is so deceptively simple that every ingredient really counts—and none more so than the tomato.

The recipe might look complex, but this Turkish-inspired dish is actually not difficult to make. and you may already have most of the ingredients on hand. And this dish looks stunning on the plate.

There’s something undeniably attractive and mysterious about the idea of eating flower petals. Yet the delicate orange blossoms that unfurl from the ends of squash and zucchini plants as they ripen cry out to be stuffed, steamed, sprinkled and savored in as many forms as possible during their brief but captivating appearance each summer.