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Creolaise Sauce
What if you seasoned hollandaise with a spicy Creole mustard? You’d get this sauce, which Marion Burros brought to The Times in 1983, part of a piece on Cajun cooking. In it, she highlighted Chez Marcelle in Broussard, where Marcelle Bienvenu served this particular sauce alongside stuffed crabs, one of the restaurant’s specialties. But the sauce can stand on its own, as a stand-in for regular hollandaise. Pair it with eggs, or asparagus, for a bit more kick than the original.
Shrimp Rémoulade
Scallop Gumbo
Gumbo is like many regional dishes: there are nearly as many interpretations as there are cooks. Most include the common Louisiana trinity of vegetables: green peppers, celery and onion. Some include meat, often a spicy sausage like andouille, in addition to or in place of shellfish. And while some gumbos rely on okra as a thickener, others use a roux, a combination of flour and fat cooked until brown and tasty. What I like about this gumbo is that it borrows a little from many approaches to create a lighter, more contemporary dish: a one-pot meal that’s ideal for any occasion calling for a crowd-pleaser.
Veal Sliders With Wilted Cabbage
Grilled Shrimp On Sugar Cane Skewers
These whole shrimp are skewered on sugar cane and basted with a rum-mustard glaze, making them great appetizers at a cookout. Assembling them is a snap: Just make a starter hole with a metal or bamboo skewer in the shrimp. Look for sugar cane swizzle sticks, thin, square-sided sticks, that make perfect skewers. All you need to do is cut off one end sharply on the diagonal to help ease the skewer through the food.
Calas
The cala (pronounced cah-LAH) has roots in Ghana. In 18th century New Orleans, Creole women of color who had the day off from their domestic jobs sold them out of baskets, shouting, “Calas, belles, calas tout chauds!“ (Beautiful calas, very hot!) Save for a few Creole grandmothers, who made them for special events like First Communion and Mardi Gras, calas had almost faded away. Since Hurricane Katrina, they have reappeared in some New Orleans restaurants, as a dessert or in the form of savory fritters made with wild rice and smoked catfish or with duck confit.
Spicy Relish for Oysters
Broiled Shrimp With Dried Lime
Rye Caraway Breadsticks
Rye and caraway have always been a match made in heaven, but until now I never thought of using them in something other than Jewish rye bread and rye crisps.
Savory Cold Mango Soup
Japanese-Style Shellfish Soup
Glazed Beef-and-Scallion Rolls
Le Lapin A La Moutarde D'irene (Rabbit Stew With Mustard)
Soupe A L'ail (Garlic Soup)
Green Garlic and Butter Clams
Green Garlic Toast
Green garlic is harvested while still immature, before the bulb has a chance to fully develop the cloves we know so well. It looks a lot like a scallion, with a mild garlic flavor that’s bright and fresh tasting. You can use both the white and green tender green parts of the stalk, trimming away any yellowing or woody parts near the top. In this recipe, minced raw green garlic is mixed with butter, Parmesan and chives, then used to top toast. It’s pungent, herbal and sweet with a bite from the chile flakes. Serve these plain, or top with any number of embellishments – sliced avocado, sliced tomatoes, dollops of ricotta cheese, fillets of anchovies or sardines. They make an excellent nibble with drinks, or serve a large portion with a salad for a light lunch. If you’re not using it immediately, the green garlic butter will freeze well for up to 3 months. And the piquant butter can also be used to cook eggs, or tossed with asparagus, pasta or rice.
Double Garlic Soup
This creamy soup of pairs two spring delicacies: green garlic, which are the tender bulbs that arrives early in the season, still attached to the greens, and garlic scapes, which look like curlicue tulip stems are the flower shoots of the garlic bulb. The two are sautéed in butter, then puréed.
Old Stone Fish Stew
Focaccia With Tomato Sauce and Green Garlic
We call this “pizza focaccia” in our house, as it does resemble a thick-crusted pizza. Make it when you crave a tomato focaccia and fresh tomatoes aren’t in season. I like to use fire-roasted canned tomatoes for this, as they develop such a deep, double-roasted flavor when the sauce bakes on top of the bread.
Grilled-Pork Skewers
Vichyssoise With Green Garlic
Lamb Flatbread With Za’atar
A favorite Middle Eastern street snack is a small freshly baked flatbread, brushed with a mixture of olive oil and za’atar, the flavorful Middle Eastern spice mixture that contains wild thyme, sumac and sesame seeds. It is uncommonly good. For a more complex, pizzalike flatbread, this recipe adds spiced ground lamb and feta, along with a shower of herbs. But if you simply want the plain za’atar version, omit the lamb topping altogether.
Lara's Yogurt Balls