Sara's Weeknight Meals

Tasting Chianti wines at Villa Dianella; homemade Chianti red pasta filled with goat cheese and spring asparagus.

A lemon farm in Sorrento, Italy; Italian lemon aperitif limoncello; local farm cheese called caciotta (with lemon); homemade lemon pasta.

Catalonian versions of classic tapas, including meatballs with peas and cuttlefish, tomato toast and the potato omelet called tortilla Espanola.

Gathering ingredients for a special paella cooked the traditional way -- outside in the open air.

Arroz con gandules; a sandwich version of a Puerto Rican classic, picadillo; making a salad in a jar.

Israeli-American chef Einat Admony makes a casserole called sinaya; baked chicken thighs with artichokes and lemon pickles.

Chicken and prunes; shrimp tikka with mango chutney; the BBQ Pit Boys -- a cooking club for men.

A farmer documents his life on the vlog ricefarmingtv.com; a local sushi chef makes a California roll, inside out cucumber rolls and a sushi burger; peppery vegetarian rice.

Preparing whole branzino; Vietnamese immigrants adapt Cajun foods into their Vietnamese cuisine; adapting traditional Korean bimimbap recipe to make an Asian grain bowl using ancient grains instead of rice.

A professional forager supplies New York restaurants with found food; mugwort soup and asparagus with wildflowers; a college professor rescues heritage seeds.