Seared beef and noodle soup; beet, pear and goat cheese salad; chickpea and pasta soup; grilled chicken Cobb salad; steak salad with spinach with blue cheese.

Soups and salads center stage, with recipes that will excite the eyes and the palate. Allie cooks a seared beef and noodle soup using thin slices of sirloin steak nestled in a bowl of delicate beef broth and rice noodles. Today's "Have You Tried?" ingredient is beets. Lucinda uses them as the star of beet, pear and goat cheese salad. Sarah shows viewers how to pack a bowl of chickpea and pasta soup in a lunchbox. Emma uses juicy grilled chicken, creamy avocado, feta cheese and crispy bacon in grilled chicken Cobb salad, an American classic that never fails to impress family and friends. Margot prepares a light and satisfying steak salad with spinach in "Cooking for One." Skirt steak is broiled quickly and served on a bed of baby spinach with sweet grapes and crumbled blue cheese.