Recipes By Martha Rose Shulman
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Pasta With Zucchini and Mint
This minty Roman-style zucchini is wonderful with pasta or served on its own.
Quinoa and Beet Pilaf
Use regular pearl white quinoa for this beautiful pink pilaf, which uses both roasted beets and their greens.
Tomato and Goat Cheese Tart
The tomato tarts and quiches I’ve been eating in Provence are delightful. Spreading mustard on the crust before you top it with tomatoes is a new idea that makes perfect sense to me, as mustard is such a perfect condiment for tomatoes.
Leeks in White Wine
When you cook leeks in wine, they develop great depth of flavor. This is my favorite way to prepare leeks on their own.
Black-Eyed Peas With Vegetables and Small Pasta
The range of bean and vegetable main dishes in the Greek repertory is striking; every region has its specialties. Many of the traditional dishes are called “olive oil dishes” (or ladera), because they are cooked with copious amounts of extra virgin olive oil. I tone down the amounts in my kitchen. But I still use enough to ensure that the broth accompanying vegetables or beans is alchemized to a velvety sauce, often enhanced with a splash of fresh lemon juice or vinegar just before serving. Since black-eyed peas require no soaking, you can cook this after work so long as you have some vegetables around the house. It is an utterly simple dish that I’ve adapted from a recipe in Ms. Kochilas’s cookbook.
Baked Quinoa with Spinach and Cheese
This is an easy gratin, a comforting casserole that you can serve as a main dish or a side.
Beets and Goat Cheese on a Bed of Spinach
I was inspired by Wolfgang Puck’s iconic goat cheese and beet napoleon to make something similar, but decided on a dish that is much less elaborate. If you have time to spare, you could stack the beet slices and goat cheese rather than crumbling the goat cheese over the beets.
Cooked Grains Salad With Tomato Vinaigrette
You can use a variety of grains in this salad. I’ve made it with a mixture of brown rice and farro, with quinoa and with bulgur. The mixture makes a robust main-dish salad for summer.
Sweet Whole Wheat Focaccia with Pears and Walnuts
This slightly sweet focaccia (three tablespoons sugar in the dough and another sprinkled over the top) is quite beautiful and makes a perfect fall or winter bread. It’s great on its own, and also great with cheese. I like to pair it with blue cheese in particular. There are sweet, nutty and savory flavors at play here, with the rosemary-scented olive oil and pears, and the walnuts tucked into the bread’s dimples.
Focaccia With Sweet Onion and Caper Topping
This is much like pissaladière, the Provençal onion tart. It’s a perfect time of year to make it, with sweet spring onions in abundance in the markets.
Soba With Green Garlic, Spinach, Edamame and Crispy Tofu
Green garlic and luscious spinach are both in abundance in the markets right now. If you can’t find soba (buckwheat noodles), you can serve the stir-fry with brown rice or other grains.
Shrimp Risotto With Peas
Shrimp shells are used here to make a subtle shellfish broth for the risotto. Make sure you don’t overcook the shrimp; they will take only four to five minutes to cook, and the contrast of their succulent texture against the chewy rice will be lost if the shrimp become rubbery.
Pasta with Spicy Tomato Sauce
The sauce for this pantry pasta is a vegetarian take on arrabbiata and amatriciana sauces, two spicy tomato sauces from Southern Italy that include pancetta or guanciale. The authentic versions would call for grated Pecorino Romano cheese, but I’ve already broken with tradition here, so use either Pecorino of Parmesan.
Chocolate Pecan Bars
This is like a toned-down pecan pie in bar form.
Oven-Baked Grains With Pecans and Maple Syrup
This is one of the two longer-cooking breakfast grain dishes this week. It takes about 1 hour 10 minutes in the oven, so it might be more practical for a weekend breakfast. Grits are much like polenta, and traditionally served as a savory dish, often with cheese added. Here I mixed the grits with the higher-protein millet, and liked the texture of the mix as well as the nuttier flavor. I warmed leftovers in my toaster oven and enjoyed this throughout the week.
Caramelized Honey-Baked Pears
The flavor of cloves infuses these pears and their tawny syrup during their long stay in the oven. Two hours is a long time, but it’s worth it: the pears are transformed, and the syrup, which is not very sweet, is caramelized. The pears will be intact, but they’re so soft you can eat them with a spoon. They also make a nice breakfast with yogurt.
Sweet Focaccia with Figs, Plums, and Hazelnuts
This is only slightly sweet, with three tablespoons of sugar in the dough and another tablespoon of cinnamon sugar sprinkled on top. What I find irresistible about the topping is the flavor of the rosemary-scented oil against the subtle figs and sweet-tart plums, and the nutty crunch of the hazelnuts. I use a small amount of cornmeal in my sweet focaccia dough; look for fine cornmeal, which is sometimes called corn flour.
Samfaina
This Catalan dish is akin to ratatouille, the French dish that rummages around in the summer garden to combine eggplant, zucchini, bell peppers, tomatoes and onions in a pot that simmers over low heat. The vegetables soften and collapse into one another, and the flavors meld. Samfaina goes further, though: The ingredients are chopped into very small pieces, then cooked for several hours until the mixture is so thick and caramelized that it almost resembles a vegetable marmalade. It’s often used as a sauce for rabbit, chicken or salt cod, but it can also be a side dish unto itself. It is a time investment — lots of chopping to be done before hours of cooking and simmering — but your efforts will yield dinner for the rest of the week. The samfaina will taste better the next day, and it’s delicious hot or cold. Spoon it on a sautéed or grilled piece of fish, grilled sausages, poached eggs or a thick piece of toast.
Whole Wheat Focaccia with Tomatoes and Fontina
Focaccia, a little crisp on the bottom but soft on the top and inside, can take on many toppings besides tomatoes. Focaccia is a dimpled flatbread that can take a number of toppings, like a pizza but breadier. I used Community Grains whole wheat flour for this half-whole-wheat version, and I’m loving the results so much that I’m ready to start on a week’s worth of focaccia recipes with different toppings very soon. The bread is fragrant with olive oil, a little crisp on the bottom but soft on the top and the inside. It’s a great vehicle for summer tomatoes.
Braised Spring Carrots and Leeks With Tarragon
Serve this sweet springtime dish as a starter or side dish, or as part of a vegetarian main dish with grains.
Crispy Spiced Kale
This was the result of a happy mistake. My intention was to make a pakora, a sort of kale fritter, but when I spooned my mixture into the hot oil it fell apart. What I got were irresistible, crispy, battered pieces of chopped kale. The spicy chips beat any kale chips I’ve ever made in the oven. Serve as a side dish or as a snack; I can’t imagine children not liking this.
Black Bean Pâté
I prefer to cook my own black beans for this pâté. With white and red beans, the difference between canned and home-cooked isn’t significant enough to matter in the pâté. It does matter with the black beans, though. This tastes like a very light version of refried beans.
Veracruzana Vinegar-Bathed Shrimp
Potato and Chard Stalk Gratin
If your Swiss chard has wide stems, keep them handy. You can use them in a number of dishes, including this rich gratin.