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Wedge Salad With Buttermilk-Blue Cheese Dressing
Sea Scallop Ceviche
Plantain Soup
Sunday Black-Bean Soup
Not everyone in a household wants to watch football games on Sunday. For those looking for an excuse to wander in and out, nothing beats cooking. A slow-simmering soup is the perfect ploy for the less-than-dedicated television viewer. It requires sporadic attention, providing a reason to leave the television viewing room as often as the cook desires. What makes the soup appealing is that by the time the games are over, dinner is ready. What makes it irresistible is that it also provides dinner for one weekday evening.
Potato, Ham and Piquillo Pepper Croquetas
Polenta ‘Pizza’ With Pancetta and Spinach
Everything is fair game at breakfast — and long has been, of course — but to most Americans it doesn’t seem appropriate to start making what amounts to dinner at 7 in the morning. This pizza could be considered dinner or lunch fare, but it makes a hearty first meal of the day.
Caramelized Salsify, Spatzle and Roasted Vegetable Broth
Black Bean Muneta With Fried Plantain Chips
Biscuits and Momofuku Red-Eye Mayo
This recipe comes from a feast that Mark Bittman and Sam Sifton prepared in Charleston, S.C. These biscuits are topped with a dollop of a mayonnaise that David Chang serves at Momofuku Ssam Bar in New York.
Fig-and-Almond Streusel Biscuits
Soupe au Pistou (Provençal Vegetable Soup)
Breaded Eggplant With Fontina Cheese And Anchovies
Horn & Hardart's Baked Macaroni and Cheese
Creamy ‘Ranch’ Dressing
Lisa Feldman, the director of culinary services at the schools division of the food services company Sodexo, understands that where there is ranch dressing, there are kids who will eat vegetables. Lisa is working to devise menus for schools that meet or exceed the Department of Agriculture’s Healthier US Schools Challenge requirements. With a deep understanding of the ingredients that school lunch programs have to work with, she developed a white bean and yogurt salad dressing base. The mixture will make a dressing that has much more nutritional value, considerably less sodium, and none of the additives in the long ingredient list on a bottle of commercial ranch dressing. Lisa credits the chef and cookbook author Joyce Goldstein for the idea. This is an adaptation of the ranch that Lisa developed for schools. It can be used as a dip, but also as a salad dressing for crisp salads. Adding the ice cube to the food processor helps to break down the fiber in the bean skins so that the dressing is less grainy.
Pissaladiere
Ham Biscuits
Spiced Potted Shrimp
In the history of British cuisine, potting perishable foods — that is, sealing ingredients in a crock under a thin layer of clarified butter — was a way to preserve them. Thanks to modern refrigeration, preservation is no longer the point, but luscious, buttery potted dishes are still popular throughout Britain. Here, diced shrimp are aggressively seasoned with anchovy, celery seed, lemon zest and garlic before being sealed into ramekins. Potted shrimp is a very rich dish, best served in small quantities with hot toast on the side to melt the solidified butter back into a creamy sauce. Or, scoop out the shrimp and butter and mix it with hot pasta to create an instant scampi-like dish.
Thai Shrimp Toast With Sesame Seeds
Crostini Romani
Spaghetti Squash With Eggplant and Sesame Seeds
Cheese Croutons
Butternut Squash Soup With Goat Cheese and Squash Crostini
Cheddar Cheese Crostini
Mashed Fava Bean Toasts
Fresh fava beans are a great addition to a spring vegetable stew or a pasta primavera. But savored on their own, mashed and smeared on toast for crostini, they are sensational. It is a fussy job, though — each bean must be peeled by hand. Try to get a friend to help; the work goes faster with more hands. You will need about 5 pounds of fava beans in the pod to yield 2 cups of mashed favas, but this labor of love is worth it.