These peach hand pies are next-level good! Made with a flaky, fool-proof, all-butter pie dough and filled with ripe peaches, goat cheese, plus a bit of green chile and basil, they ride the delicious line between savory and sweet.
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Building a remarkable tomato sandwich is an exercise in patience. You have to wait for the right time, when the tomatoes are peak. This is my first of the year topped with mayo, zucchini butter, avocado, and fresh basil.
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Zucchini butter is a great way to use up two pounds of zucchini or other summer squash. It’s creamy and spreadable and having it on hand makes for quick meals. It’s great mixed into pasta, baked onto pizza, and smeared across crackers and flatbread.
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Feathery green and red cabbages along with carrots, apples, and scallions tossed with a spicy, creamy sesame dressing.
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To make your peach cobbler extra special add lemon zest to your buttered baking dish, then fold toasted walnuts into the biscuit-like topping. Both are easy wins boosting flavor and dimension. Peak summer fruit classic!
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Seasoned with a good amount of cumin, cayenne and mustard, these are hearty, filling, easy to make, dump-everything-in-the-food processor grillable tofu burgers.
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Spicy grilled veggie kebabs made with a flavor-packed yogurt marinade and mix of vegetables with paneer cheese. A favorite that you can make ahead, and grill or bake year-round.
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For the egg salad sandwich fans out there, these open-faced deviled egg toasts merge everything people love about egg salad and deviled eggs into sandwich form.
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The chickpea salad sandwich filling to make in bulk for easy lunches and snacks all week. A perfect vegetarian or vegan sandwich option.
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A creamed corn recipe passed to my dad from his mother. It uses the 2-2-1 method with fresh corn, milk, butter, and a bit of flour. If you have two ears of corn give it a try, so simple and good!
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Not your basic, bland, bran muffin. The thing that makes these special is their flavor. They’re buttermilk based with a tender crumb and toasted, craggy top. Perfect smeared with a bit of butter and your favorite marmalade.
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A wonderful farro salad with buttermilk dressing inspired by a version I had at Clyde Common in Portland, Oregon years ago. Imagine nutty farro grains plus shaved radishes, zucchini, and fennel tossed with creamy, herbed, buttermilk dressing. The perfect lunch.
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A beautiful cauliflower salad from the Bar Tartine cookbook – a crunchy, hearty mixture of cauliflower, seeds, chiles, radishes, chickpeas, and green onions slathered in an enveloping garlicky yogurt dressing.
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This cherry smoothie recipe is the result of being elbow deep in cherry season. I’ve tripled-down on all things red here – cold-brewed hibiscus water (easy to make), blood oranges, and plump, sweet cherries. It’s fantastic!
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This is a noodle salad you’ll crave every day. A radiant, color-flecked tangle of noodles, cabbage, shredded carrots, pickled sushi ginger, and an abundance of cilantro, basil, and scallions. It has tofu and peanuts, coconut, ginger, avocado, and hemp seeds. The dressing(!) – it’s simple but strong, and steps in with an assertive spicy sriracha-lime punch.
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The green smoothie recipe from Tara O’Brady’s cookbook, Seven Spoons. An invigorating, bottom’s up, morning kickstarter made from kale, almond butter, almond milk, banana, and pineapple.
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This week I switched up the cookbooks on my kitchen counter. I do this a few times a year, placing the books I’m excited to cook from in the months ahead front and center. Here’s what my current summer cookbook stack looks like.
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A show-stopper miso soup made with a spicy broth punched up with garlic, ginger and chile paste. To that you add cubed potatoes, chopped cabbage and summer produce like cherry tomatoes, basil, and corn.
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A list of fun pasta shapes to make from scratch in your own kitchen Including hand-rolled pici, cavatelli, and tagliatelle.
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Braised artichokes baked for an hour, covered in an unctuous slathering of olive oil, white wine, olives, mint, garlic and orange zest. Make them on a Sunday night and use throughout the week to make your sandwiches and pastas fantastic.
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A favorite stir-fry recipe. Asparagus and tofu form the base, but it has quite a lot going on beyond that. You get a bite of tang from the lime, heat from the red chiles and fresh ginger, mint and basil cool things down. A touch of hoisin sauce gives you just enough sweetness to balance it all out.
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This homemade sunflower seed butter is accented with a blizzard of cinnamon and a slather of vanilla bean paste. It’s a dream on your favorite toasted bread.
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An assertively spiced departure from a favorite Suzanne Goin potato gratin recipe. This is a rustic, deeply flavorful late-summer gratin made with sliced tomatoes, potatoes, caramelized onions, curry powder, and a kick of red chile flakes.
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A decadent chocolate pie featuring a honey-sweetened graham cracker crust and a wildcard cream cheese chocolate filling. From the book Country Wisdom & Know-How – the recipe calls for equal parts tofu and cream cheese in the filling. This combination creates a decadent, mousse-like texture that’s also a breeze to cut into precision slices.
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If you love the vibe and flavor of classic cream of mushroom soup, but want to skip the overabundance of heavy cream used in many recipes, you’re in the right spot. This version brings all the nostalgia you love, but uses nuts to deliver the rich, creamy texture. It works beautifully, and the soup is such an all-star. Give it a try!
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