Recipes By Martha Rose Shulman
1499 recipes found
Tomato, Spelt and Herb Salad
Tomatoes are very rich source of vitamin A and vitamin C, not to mention lycopenes, phytonutrients that some scientists believe may have antioxidant properties. I am heading out to my garden to reap this summer’s bounty. This is a light summer chopped salad with chewy and crunchy textures. Give it time to marinate for the best flavor.
Olive Oil Plum Cake
I’ve always been intrigued by olive oil cakes and decided to switch out half the butter in the original recipe for this plum cake for olive oil. I spread the batter in a 10-inch tart pan and topped it with delicious pluots from the farmers’ market. You can serve this as a dessert, a coffee cake, or a sweet snack.
Pumpkin Caramel Mousse
This is essentially a great pumpkin pie, with no crust, piped into glasses and topped with hazelnuts. There is whipped cream folded into the mousse, but you could make extra so that you could have some on top, too. It makes for a shockingly impressive dessert.
Plum Sorbet or Granita
Use ripe, juicy red plums for this spicy, wine-infused sorbet or granita.
Honey Spice Bread
If you go to a French honey stand or shop, or one of the many honey fairs that occur during the summer in Provence, pain d’épices – spice bread – will always be one of the items for sale along with the honey, as honey is a key an ingredient in these breads. This recipe is based on one by French Pastry School founder Jacquy Pfeiffer. His recipe, which does not contain any butter or oil, results in a very moist bread. You will need a small loaf pan, no bigger than 4 x 8 inches, or you can make mini-muffins.
Winter Squash and Molasses Muffins
These moist muffins are reminiscent of pumpkin molasses bread, but they aren’t as sweet (though you can add more sugar or molasses if you want them to be sweeter)
Applesauce Bread
Serve this easy, moist and spicy quick bread with tea, pack it in a lunchbox or eat it for dessert. Use homemade or commercial applesauce with no sugar added.
Mixed Red Fruit, Apricot and Hazelnut Galette
In France, “fruits rouges” usually refers to a mixture of berries. I used blueberries and raspberries, and included some cherries and plums in the mix, as well as apricots for this delicious, rustic odds-and-ends galette.
Chicken Tagine With Rhubarb
The idea was to make something resembling a classic Moroccan chicken tagine with green olives and preserved lemon, but to swap out the salty, tart preserved lemon for sweeter, tart poached rhubarb. My idea worked; the dish has been a great success at more than one dinner party, and it will be a standby as long as the rhubarb lasts.
Broiled Fish With Chermoula
In Morocco, chermoula is traditionally used as a marinade for grilled fish. You’ve used the Moroccan herb and spice blend, chermoula in all sorts of dishes, but not the way it is traditionally used in Morocco, as a marinade and sauce for fish (usually grilled). When you make the chermoula, you can do it as the recipe instructs, in a food processor, or as the Moroccans do, finely chopping all of the herbs. You can also use a mortar and pestle. If you want to you can thin it out with more oil or lemon juice. If the sauce is thick, you can just spread it over the fish with a spatula, like a rub, and let the fish marinate. It is unbelievably delicious and easy. This recipe is for fillets, but you can also use the marinade with a whole fish. I like to use the broiler for this because the juices accumulate on the foil-lined baking sheet and they are delicious poured over the fish. But grilling is traditional.
Steamed Cod or Sea Bass Salad With Red Peppers, Cilantro and Mint
This refreshing combination has Middle Eastern overtones, though in the Middle East the fish would probably be fried or poached. Serve it as a first course or as a light main dish. Pacific sea bass or Pacific cod are the most environmentally friendly types of fish to use here.
Collard Greens Tagine With Flageolets
I call the dish a tagine because it tastes like a Tunisian stew; its warm triumvirate of spices — coriander, cumin and caraway — are always present in the classic Tunisian spice mix called tabil. It is inspired by the Tunisian tagines I make to serve with couscous, but I served this instead with whole grain flatbread. Since my version is vegetarian, I cooked the onions and fennel in olive oil before adding them to the beans so the dish would have a bit of fat and the vegetables would have more flavor.
Artichoke Heart Frittata
You can make this easy Italian frittata with the fresh, tiny artichokes that arrive with spring or, more quickly, with frozen artichoke hearts.
Roasted Pepper Sauce
The flavor in this sauce is deepened by peppers, which are first grilled or roasted, then cooked in olive oil with onion, garlic and chili flakes.
Algerian Okra, Potato and Tomato Tagine
A tagine is a North African stew made in an earthenware dish that has a conical top. You can make a tagine in other types of heavy casseroles, like enameled cast iron, but I prefer to use earthenware set over a flame tamer.
Seared and Roasted Brussels Sprouts With Red Pepper and Mint Gremolata
Searing brussels sprouts in a hot cast iron pan was a revelation to me when I first began preparing them this way a few years ago. In this version, adapted from Momofuku’s recipe for Roasted Brussels Sprouts With Fish Sauce Vinaigrette, as featured in Food52’s upcoming book “Genius Recipes,” I achieve the sear on the cut surface of the sprouts in the pan, finish them in a hot oven, then return them to the frying pan, where in the meantime I have cooked a sweet red pepper. The combo is
Rainbow Quinoa Tabbouleh
Quinoa lends itself to lemony salads, and the rainbow mix is particularly nice because each type of quinoa has a slightly different texture. The pearl white grains are the fluffiest, the red and black more compact.
Panini With Artichoke Hearts, Spinach and Red Peppers
Here’s a great way to pack a lot of nutrients into a sandwich. If you use frozen artichoke hearts, the panini are quickly assembled.
Mashed Potato and Broccoli Raab Pancakes
A delicious way to use mashed potatoes, whether they be leftovers or freshly mashed. Use leftover mashed potatoes from Thanksgiving for these, or just steam up some potatoes and mash (that is what the nutritional values here are based on, not on your buttery leftover Thanksgiving mashed potatoes). Whichever way you go, the mixture is very quickly thrown together.
Spinach and Red Pepper Frittata
Spinach and red peppers bring vitamin A and vitamin C to this beautiful frittata. Spinach is also an excellent source of a long list of other nutrients, including vitamin K, manganese, folate and magnesium. And it’s packed with protective phytonutrients, including the newly discovered glycoglycerolipids, which some researchers believe may help protect the digestive tract from inflammation.
Quiche With Red Peppers and Spinach
The real spring vegetable here is the spinach, lush and beautiful at this time of year. You can always get red peppers in a supermarket, and when you cook them for a while, as you do here, even the dullest will taste sweet. I make the pepper mixture first, then wilt the spinach in the same pan and line the tart shell with the savory mix. If you can, make the pepper and spinach filling a day ahead. It dries out a little if it sits overnight in the refrigerator and is less likely to dilute the custard.
Pili Pili (Spicy Herb Oil)
This spicy oil with an African name is popular throughout Provence. It’s usually on the table in pizzerias for drizzling, but it’s also terrific drizzled over vegetables, grilled meats or fish, grains and bread – whatever you want to add a kick to. In France it is made with very hot bird chilies. You could use fresh Thai chilies for this, but I’m using dried chiles de arbol, because that’s what I have on hand and it makes an oil that will last for months.
Stir-Fried Tofu With Cabbage, Carrots and Red Peppers
This is a beautiful stir-fry using vegetables that are easy to keep on hand, as they all stay fresh for more than a week in the refrigerator.
Butternut Squash and Purple Potato Latkes
Purple potatoes add a bit of color and some extra nutrients but regular white potatoes work, too. Of course you can use white potatoes for these, but I loved the idea of the color combo when I created the recipe. The purple doesn’t show up so much once you have browned the latkes but the anthocyanins in the potatoes are still there.