Recipes By Martha Rose Shulman
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Summer Squash Ribbons with Cherry Tomatoes and Mint/Basil Pesto
The texture of these squash ribbons can be as satisfying as pasta if the squash is cooked just until flexible, about two to three minutes. The dish is quite beautiful, and once you’ve shaved the squash – which really doesn’t take that long – it comes together in no time. The best tool to use for tossing and stirring the squash and the cherry tomatoes is tongs. Serve as a light main dish or as a side.
Risotto With Eggplant and Tomatoes
You could make a different dish with tomatoes and eggplant every day of the summer in Provence. I used a couple of small eggplants for this, but you can use 1 large one if that is what is available. I also used round rice from the Camargue, the Rhone delta region of southern France, which has the same risotto-friendly qualities as arborio rice.
Polenta With Mushrooms, Favas and Tomatoes
I can never resist adding fresh favas to a dish during their short season. The mushroom and tomato mixture is excellent on its own, but take advantage of favas before they disappear from the market.
Bean and Farro Soup With Cabbage and Winter Squash
This is a big, comforting soup — nothing fancy, just a hearty potage with lots of texture and layers of sweet and savory, earthy and vegetal flavors. Serve it to hungry houseguests and children for lunch or dinner.
Saffron Risotto With Spring Onion, Saffron and Green Garlic
This is inspired by — but much lighter than — risotto Milanese, the mother of all risottos. If you’ve never made a risotto, start with this utterly simple classic. Green garlic resembles spring onions or leeks. The young bulbs have not yet set cloves. The flavor isn’t at all sharp, but more like the flavor of leeks. Prepare as you would leeks.
Barley Risotto With Cauliflower and Red Wine
The Italians make a risotto-like dish called orzotto with barley. It has a chewier, more robust texture than risotto made with rice and considerably more fiber. I like to use red wine in this dish, both for its flavor and because I like the way it tints the cauliflower.
Risotto with Roasted Winter Squash
Roasting squash lightly caramelizes it, making a naturally sweet vegetable even sweeter. I stir a small portion of the roasted squash into this luxurious risotto at the beginning, and the rest at the end of cooking. The squash that is added at the beginning falls apart as the risotto cooks, enriching the mixture and adding color.
Bruschetta With Smashed Beans, Sage and Kale
This is comfort food — a generous spoonful of thick beans seasoned with fresh sage on top of a substantial slice of garlic toast. To make a meal of it I top the beans with seasoned greens and a little Parmesan.
Pink Risotto With Beet Greens and Roasted Beets
This rich-tasting risotto is decidedly pink (maybe it will be the key to getting your picky family member to eat vegetables!). Use a full-bodied vegetable stock if you are vegetarian; otherwise use a well seasoned chicken or turkey stock.
Amazingly Sweet Slow-Roasted Tomatoes
These don’t look like they are going to taste as amazing as they do, and I know it might be asking a lot to have the oven on for 2 hours on a hot summer day. But it’s on low and the end result will be worth it. Lean over the plate when you bite into the tomatoes, as the juice may squirt. You can eat these as a snack or a side dish, or put them through a food mill for an incredibly sweet sauce.
Brown Rice Fusilli with Broccoli Rabe or Greens
This is based on a classic dish from Puglia, in Southern Italy. I love the bitter flavor of the broccoli raab (my 10-year old son and his friends did not). Broccoli raab is a member of the brassica family and brings to the dish the cancer fighting phytonutrients that this family of vegetables is famous for, plus a substantial wallop of calcium, potassium, folate, and vitamins C, K, and A.
Mushroom and Grain Cheeseburgers
Wild Mushroom and Potato Gratin
Wild mushrooms add a luxurious dimension to this comforting, almost classic potato gratin. There is no cream here, just milk mixed with porcini broth (the result of soaking dried porcinis for 30 minutes in boiling water). You can use a mix of wild mushrooms, or just one type. Sauté them with onion or shallots, garlic and savory herbs (thyme and rosemary or sage), season them well and toss with the potatoes. The gratin requires 1 1/2 hours in the oven; first you will doubt that all of the liquid will be absorbed by the potatoes, and about halfway through you will be convinced that the finished dish will be watery and the potatoes hard. But by the end, once all the bubbling has subsided, the soft potatoes will have imbibed all of the flavorful liquid in the dish, and the top and edges of the gratin will be crusty, the way a gratin should be.
Trahana With Mushrooms
When trahana is cooked in broth, the broth thickens slightly, as it does when you make risotto with Arborio rice. I make this savory, comforting mixture of mushrooms and trahana the same way I make risotto, adding the broth gradually and stirring vigorously from time to time. You may not need to use all of the broth but it is good to have this much just in case. If you make it ahead and reheat, you will want to add some broth, so don’t throw out what you don’t use.