Recipes By Mark Bittman
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Mark Bittman’s Eggplant Parmesan
This is the most minimalist eggplant Parmesan imaginable, really an eggplant gratin with tomatoes. You cook the eggplant in abundant oil. Yes, you can broil it or bake it, but I really think the taste of eggplant slices that have had oil boiled right through them is dreamy. Make a 15-minute tomato sauce of fresh or canned tomatoes, onion and olive oil, then grab a gratin dish and layer the eggplant, sauce and Parmesan. Do this two or three times, and that's it. Bake until it's bubbly and golden brown. It's great hot or at room temperature, so it's perfect for a potluck.
Kosher Pickles, The Right Way
Pickles are Jewish deli staples, but you can make them yourself. It’s kind of a project, but how cool is it to be able to say, “I made those pickles.” These pickles will keep well for up to a week in the refrigerator.
Creamy Chicken Liver Pâté
French pâté is in fact easier to make than my grandmother’s chopped liver, which called for rendering chicken fat. Here, you just soften onions in butter, cook the livers, cool, purée and refrigerate. You don’t have to bother with soaking the livers in milk, a step found in many recipes. Season aggressively: you want to taste the pepper, the coriander, the brandy and even the allspice and clove. Finally, cook the liver quickly, over pretty high heat. What you want is to brown the outside while keeping the inside pink. This, perhaps, is another major difference between pâté and chopped liver, in which the livers are almost always cooked to death.
Chicken Livers With Caramelized Onions and Mushrooms
Stir-Fried Lamb With Green Peppers And Black Beans
Asparagus With Miso Butter
This combination of miso and butter is natural and delicious, too. Miso butter looks a little like cake frosting and is just as easy to lick off the fingers. With the egg yolk dripping onto the butter and the asparagus spears dipped into the eggy, miso slurry, you're looking at a four-star dish at a neighborhood restaurant — or at home. Watch our video on how to poach an egg
Cracked Wheat With Mushroom Puree
Cajun-Style Broiled Shrimp
Shrimp, the most versatile seafood, is now the most popular in America, and there is no wrong way to eat it. Wild shrimp from the Pacific or the Gulf of Mexico is a treat if you can find it. Fresh local shrimp from Maine or the Carolinas is an even rarer gem. (These are all preferable from a sustainability perspective.) A vast majority, of course, is farmed and frozen. If you buy it ‘‘individually quick frozen’’ in resealable bags, you can take out only as many as you want and thaw them by leaving the shrimp in the fridge for 24 hours or running them under cool water for an hour or less. Here, it is made Cajun with cayenne, paprika and garlic and quickly broiled.
Octopus Salad With Crispy Vegetables
Octopus Confit
Tortillitas With Shrimp
Roasted Cod With Tangerine Sauce
Basic Vinaigrette With Mustard
Beet And Goat Cheese Salad
Grilled Octopus
Tuna Or Swordfish With Onion Confit
Octopus And Potatoes
La Zucca Magica’s Orange and Olive Salad
The combination of sweet, juicy, tart (and cold) orange and bitter, fatty, slightly warmer tapenade is fantastic. Don’t omit the fennel seeds, which add another dimension of flavor and texture — just super. And by all means use the common navel orange — it’s in season, and it seems, to me, just perfect.
Rozanne Gold's Watermelon And Feta Salad
Poached Pears With Asian Spices
Rack of Lamb With Pimentón, Garlic and Olive Oil
Lutece's Bay Scallops With Tomato and Chives
Simplest Bay Scallops
This recipe, adapted from “Fish: The Complete Guide to Buying and Cooking” by Mark Bittman, came to The Times in 1997, part of a greater piece on bay scallops. In season from November to March, he wrote, they’re “best prepared as simply as possible,” and made as they are here: with just a quick sear, a sprinkling of salt and some lemon wedges to let their flavor shine through.