Recipes By Mark Bittman
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Beef Tenderloin In Caramelized Sugar
Canapes With Piquillo Peppers And Anchovies
Pasta Alla Genovese
To many Neapolitans, the beef sauce La Genovese is at the heart of the city's cooking. Yet it’s little more than onions (lots of them) and beef, simmered until both fall apart. Boiling the onions before cooking is a variation on traditional technique and could be considered a shortcut; it does save time, though not a whole lot of it. It's easy enough, and more traditional, to slice the onions raw and increase cooking time accordingly.
Chicken-Mushroom Burgers
Braised Spareribs With Cabbage
Tomato Sauce With Lamb and Pasta
Oven-Smoked Ribs
It took a few tries, but I finally came up with what I’d call “smoke kissed” ribs in my oven. I started with a dry rub; it’s the same one I use every summer, based on a recipe my friend Chris Schlesinger shared with me years ago. Then I used a roasting pan and aluminum foil to cobble together a smoker. It’s a rudimentary approach, but one that creates a smoky steam that in turn infuses the meat.
Spareribs Korean Style
Winter Ribs
Broiled Sardines With Lemon and Thyme
This is a dish that is both humble and elegant, full of flavor, with the glistening silver skin of the sardines crisping in the heat. It’s also not fussy in the slightest, which means it could easily serve as the centerpiece of a light weeknight meal, with a large bowl of greens and crusty bread. First, heat the broiler (and with it, a sturdy pan), then stuff the sardines with whole thyme sprigs and sliced lemon. (Seasoned bread crumbs would be another sound addition.) Place the sardines in the pan with a generous slick of olive oil and run them under the broiler for about 5 minutes, without flipping, until the flesh is opaque and the skin is browned. Serve them whole, laid out on a platter, garnished with extra thyme branches and other chopped herbs if you have them. To eat, use a fork to tease away the white meat from the top of the skeleton, then carefully remove the intact skeleton to reveal the bottom filet.
Sautéed Red Snapper With Rhubarb Sauce
Here, the moderately rich snapper, lightly crisped, tasting of butter or olive oil works beautifully with the tart-sweet rhubarb sauce. The rhubarb cooks with no added liquid -- it contains plenty, as you'll see -- and needs almost no preparation other than a quick trim and rinse. If the stalks are very large -- more than an inch wide and a foot long -- use a vegetable peeler or a paring knife to remove the strings and cut into 4 or 5 inch pieces. (Never eat the rhubarb leaves; they contain toxic levels of oxalic acid, which gives rhubarb its astringency.)
Steamed Fish Fillets With Hard-Cooked Egg Sauce
Seared Halibut With Anchovies, Capers And Garlic
Three classic flavors are often overlooked these days, so much so that when I prepared a dish combining them not long ago, I seemed to be tasting it for the first time. This combo is garlic, anchovies and capers, a natural southern Mediterranean team that is strong and distinctive. Its brininess makes it incompatible with many foods, but it is ideal with fish, especially sturdy fish like halibut and swordfish. Creating a dish out of these ingredients is almost as easy as simply searing the fish and serving it with lemon. The fish is quickly browned, then allowed to finish cooking in the oven while the no-fuss sauce cooks in the pan.
Veal Stew With Endive And Carrot
Avocado-Basil Dressing
Miso Mayonnaise
Don’t limit your use of miso to soup! It makes for a fantastic compound butter. It’s terrific cut with mirin and slathered over chicken. And here, stirred into mayonnaise, it becomes a consciousness-expanding condiment.
Pan-Fried Pizza
Goat Cheese and Apple Omelet
This omelet of green apples and goat cheese is an unusual pairing -- at least in the omelet world -- but a wonderful one from Garrett Oliver, the brewmaster of Brooklyn Brewery. On the day we made this recipe, he paired the dish with a glass of Blanche de Chambly, a Belgian-style wheat beer made in Canada.
Corn Bread and Squash Stuffing
Sesame-Crusted Fish With Butter and Ginger Sauce
This recipe came out of a 2005 kitchen cage match between Mark Bittman and the chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten, in which Bittman, the home cook, sought to cook Chef Vongerichten's food more simply and perhaps just as deliciously. Judging by the quality of this particular dish, he succeeded.
Monkfish With Mashed Potatoes and Thyme
Pasta Alla Norma, My Way
I make pasta alla Norma all the time; you will find more than one recipe from me on the classic tomato and eggplant sauce. But this is my favorite version, created on the spur of the moment and at the suggestion from a friend.
Steamed Fish on Kale
Many home cooks are comfortable with spinach but are intimidated by the unfamiliar variety of other cooking greens: chard, mustard, turnips, collards, kale and more. But it doesn't matter much which you include in a given dish: they're all good, and they all cook quickly. This preparation is dead easy. You first steam the kale with butter (you could use olive oil, but here it just isn't the same), white wine (water is almost as good) and garlic, until it's just about done. At that point you top the greens with a fillet or two of white fish and continue to steam until the fish is cooked through. Timed correctly, the greens will be tender and bright green and the fish moist. The juices from both will have combined with the butter, wine and garlic to produce a sauce that is great with rice or bread.
