Recipes By Melissa Clark
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Curried Duck Legs With Ginger and Rhubarb
Hard-Cooked Egg and Basil-Butter Sandwich
Salmon-Roe-Topped Baked Potatoes With Crème Fraîche
A riff on a recipe for a potato stuffed with rosemary and pork rillettes from Nigel Slater, the British food writer, this version relies on salmon roe and crème fraîche. The pairing is, as Ms. Clark wrote, “a briny, creamy analogue” to a porky version. Try it as a bright and festive appetizer during the holidays, or skip the salmon roe for a still-satisfying meal.
Rhubarb Butterscotch Sauce
Save the Day Rösti
Spicy Ginger Pork Noodles With Bok Choy
Spicy, brawny and full of ginger and garlic, these pork noodles are a play on dumplings, but easier to make at home. If you don’t have the black vinegar to sprinkle on top of the sliced ginger, you can simply leave it out. Or try substituting balsamic, which is a bit sweeter, but has similar caramel notes to play off the ginger’s pungency.
Swiss Chard Fritters
This recipe, adapted from “Jerusalem,” by Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi, appeared in The Times in 2012 as part of a Hanukkah food article. It is packed with fragrant dill and cilantro, and studded with feta. The fritters would go well with smoked salmon and a little yogurt, or a garlicky spread of beets, dill, walnuts and horseradish that pulls from the Ashkenazi tradition. Either way, they are a great vegetable counterpoint to the starchier dishes of Hanukkah. They cook fast, and should be served warm.
Baked Tapioca Pudding With Cinnamon Sugar Brûlée
This pudding offers you both the satisfying crack of using your spoon to break through a brûlée topping and the sensation of dipping that spoon into fluffy pudding. Tapioca generally isn’t baked, but it is easier than cooking it on top of the stove. And once the pudding is in the oven you can leave it alone, as opposed to the stovetop method, which requires frequent stirring to prevent scorching. The use of pearl tapioca makes for a springy texture, and cinnamon in the topping adds a bit of spice.
Chocolate Frosting
Here is a buttercream frosting like your grandmother might have made. Pair it with chocolate cake for a rich birthday treat.
Shredded Oxtail Salad With Mustard and Shallot
Oysters Rockefeller
In this classic recipe, the Rockefeller name refers to the dollar bill-green color of the sauce — and its richness, as it’s loaded with butter, garlic, spinach and herbs. You can make the butter sauce up to three days ahead and store it in the refrigerator, then drop dollops of it on shucked oysters just before broiling. Watch the oysters carefully as they broil. You want the bread crumbs in the topping to turn golden and the oysters to warm up slightly but not cook through. Serve these with forks on the side; all the hot, buttery sauce makes them too slick for slurping.
Melissa Clark's Oysters Rockefeller
Grilled Cumin Lamb With Spicy Onions
Yogurt makes a great base for a marinade, adding a milky tang and helping to tenderize all kinds of meats. In this case, the yogurt is spiked with aromatics — toasted cumin, green chile, herbs, and plenty of ginger and garlic — which impart complex flavors to a butterflied leg of lamb destined for the grill. Lightly pickled, spicy onions make a bright garnish here, but you can skip them if it seems like one step too many. Instead, just slice up a red onion and scatter the raw slivers over the top of the meat for a contrasting crunch. If you’d rather cook this inside, you can broil it instead of grilling.
El Presidente
Rumtopf
Citrus-Marinated Fluke With Ginger Cracklings
Classic Cheese Fondue
This traditional Swiss fondue – the sort you might have encountered in an Alpine ski lodge circa 1972 – calls for an equal amount of Gruyère cheese, for its depth of flavor, and Emmenthaler, for its supple texture; a shot of kirsch, for its cherry aroma and alcoholic oomph; and a little garlic, for bite. It takes all of 15 minutes, and will emerge as magnificently creamy, smooth and velvety as custard, but with a funky, deep flavor that dazzlingly enriches anything you dunk in the pot: bread cubes, apple slices, clementine sections, nuggets of salami, pretzels, tofu. It is even marvelous spooned onto a romaine lettuce salad in place of dressing.
Gluten-Free Flour Blend
Seared Blackfish With Tomato Water, Herbs and Olives
Squash Sauce
Ramp Focaccia
Spiced Baked Apples With Maple Caramel Sauce
Chamomile Syrup
Brown Buttered Corn
This side dish is easier than corn on the cob. Fresh corn kernels are cooked in butter browned so that it takes on a deep caramelized flavor. Try it with these roasted fish fillets.