This cherry tomato tart starts with an all-butter crust spread with a thin swipe of chili crisp, then filled with ricotta folded with deeply roasted scallions and fresh chives. A generous layer blistered cherry tomatoes tops the ricotta, and a final scattering of toasted almonds brings added crunch. Bake this tart, share with friends!
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A fennel mushroom recipe inspired by one of my vintage cookbooks, The Seasonal Kitchen by Perla Meyers. It’s a simple, brilliant twist on everyday sauteed mushrooms with dill, chives, fresh fennel, and a kiss of creme fraiche.
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There is a wonderful Sopa Verde de Elote in Diana Kennedy’s Recipes from the Regional Cooks of Mexico published in 1978, and I use it as inspiration for this variation. Sweet corn and peas are off-set by a spike of green chile, a finishing dollop of crème fraîche, and generous squeeze of lime. It’s really beautiful and one of my favorite ways to use summer produce.
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A delightful bowl of quick dumplings made with potsticker wrappers filled with pesto-boosted ricotta cheese. It is ladled with a simple five-minute tomato broth for a weeknight win.
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Red fruit salad made with plump strawberries, sweet cherries, lemon zest, and coriander brown sugar. Five ingredients. So good.
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Creamy, textured, and just loose enough to ripple across the plate – this is the classic risotto you’re aiming for. Here’s how you get there, step by step.
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A vibrant homemade pesto recipe taught to me by my friend Francesca’s mother who came to visit from Genoa, Italy. This is how to make pesto like an Italian grandmother. Made with hand-chopped basil, garlic, Parmesan, olive oil and pine nuts. The real deal.
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A collection of much-loved winter salads. The ones I reach for when the weather cools and the produce turns bright and colorful. Fresh and vibrant salads that are a welcome contrast to the season’s heavier meals.
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If you’ve been to my house at any point in recent months, you’ve likely had these dates – broiled with saffron, almond extract, ghee (or olive oil), and a bit of salt. They’re unctuous, sweet goodness. Include these as a part of every cheese board you make!
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The sort of hearty apple salad I love. It has heirloom apples, shaved celery, and toasted nuts of your choosing. The dressing is creamy and spiked with rosemary, garlic and champagne vinegar.
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A chunky, satisfying, winter-time riff on potato chowder – winking at the Japanese pantry with a finishing swirl of miso, and a touch of sake in the base.
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Simple green curry dumplings made with caramelized leeks, green curry paste, and cooked mung beans. Everything is thinned with coconut milk and then mashed and smashed a bit.
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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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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 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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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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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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For anyone wanting to work more sprouts into their meals, this is one of the best salads I’ve made in a long time. It includes mung bean sprouts, avocado, arugula, yogurt, and toasted almonds. So many good ingredients and incredibly tasty!
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Cauliflower dialed all the way up on the spice front like this tastes great. Inspired by a recipe in Reza Mahammad’s cookbook, caramelized onions, cumin, ginger, garlic, sesame seeds and chiles are all in play. They create fragrant magic, turning this cauliflower recipe into an all-star – just read the comments!
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A vibrant tempeh curry recipe loosely inspired by a recipe from Lora Zarubin’s cookbook, I am Almost Always Hungry.
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Crepes don’t have to be difficult! Once you master this basic crepe recipe you can make perfect sweet or savory crepes on a whim.
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This one-pot, garganelli pasta is an easy weeknight win. It’s pasta and lentils simmered in crushed tomatoes and finished with lots of chopped kale, saffron, swirls of tahini and chopped almonds.
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This recipe can deliver rustic rye flour crepes for days. Fill them with sweet or savory fillings for any meal of the day.
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