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Mashed Potato Korokke
This Mashed Potato Quenelle recipe is my favorite way to utilize leftover mashed potatoes. This is an easy recipe you can do at home, with basic ingredients.
Best Salsa
A friend gave me this recipe and I have since tweeked it. I added Salt and pepper and the juice of a lime. Sometimes, I'll add Black olives and some vinager as well for a variation. I have to show up with my sauce every event I go or my friends are quickly disappointed. Its quick simple and tasty. For gifts, I find a cool container and buy a large bag of favoite tortilla chips and find that is very well received.
Garlicky Pimento Pepper Spread
This pimento pepper recipe came from the need to try to adapt the classic roasted red pepper. Just throw them on the baking sheet, pull them out, and puree!
Crisp Kale Chips With Chile and Lime
Easy, addictive and loaded with bright flavors, this is your new favorite way to prepare kale. Buy more kale than you think you need; these go fast.
Homemade Tomato Paste
My homemade tomato paste recipe makes a sauce that is extra rich, dark brick red, divine and in the freezer waiting to be used. And it is so easy to make!
Thyme Roasted Carrots with Goat Cheese
Tangy goat cheese and lemony thyme pair perfectly with the caramelized carrots.
Pear Delights
Made it up for an appetizer and it evolved over time
Fresh Pears and Frico
This recipe is so easy and uses just three ingredients but makes for a nice little appetizer.
The Wedding's Over Simple Salad
We had a lot of beautiful green onions and tomatoes leftover from a wedding. Always quick to the obvious, I thought: let's make a recipe for some salads.
Doppelbock Bread
This is a basic quick bread with whole-wheat flour and a little cornmeal. I love both the ridiculously easy method (stir, pour, bake) and the finished loaf’s tender crumb and warm, yeasty flavor. (Yeast bread with no yeast. Interesting.)
1-2-3-4 Spareribs
A Chinese friend shared this recipe many years ago. It couldn't be easier! With the ribs cut apart at the outset, they become completely portable—suitable for eating on the run, and a sensational cocktail nibble.
Sugar Snap Peas with Mustard and Chives
I happened to pass by the Union Square greenmarket when I was wandering around downtown this weekend, and couldn't help myself: I bought enough fresh fruits and vegetables to last a month. This recipe was inspired by the fresh- and delicious-looking snap peas I found there. I wanted something that would add to their flavor but not overwhelm it. This was perfect - the mustard and chives gave a sweet and spicy finish, and the bit of butter created a glazed, gourmet look.
Slow-Roasted Cherry Tomatoes With Basil Oil
When you roast cherry tomatoes, they caramelize and become even sweeter. This dish was inspired by a huge pile of roasted red and yellow cherry tomatoes that a friend served at a dinner party recently; they were drizzled with diluted pesto and placed alongside a luxurious mound of burrata. You can serve these as an appetizer (have napkins close by) or side dish, or tossed with pasta. You can easily multiply this recipe, but you won’t have to use much more olive oil to coat the tomatoes. This gorgeous emerald-colored oil is a condiment that you can keep in your refrigerator for up to a week. Keep it in a squeeze bottle, and drizzle it over tomatoes, fish, chicken or other vegetables. It looks beautiful on a white plate, and a little goes a long way.
Yogurt Soup With Spelt, Cucumbers and Watercress
Chilled soups are terrific in sweltering summer heat. This yogurt soup in particular has nice body and crunch, from the substantial whole grains (spelt, farro or wheat berries) and finely chopped cucumbers. The addition of watercress, diced tomatoes, herbs, garlic and lemon juice means that every spoonful ferries with it a mix of flavors and textures. Use good quality plain yogurt here (preferably whole-milk yogurt, though low-fat is fine), and you will be rewarded with an authentically tangy, creamy soup that manages to be filling and refreshing.
Squash Blossom and Garlic Frittata
Somewhere, in a book, I read about how Italians make frittatas with zucchini blossoms. Because they can. And over the years I've been training myself to make thinner frittatas with fewer ingredients and to let them cool to room temperature, like Italians do. Because everything they do seems better than what we do. - Amanda
Tomato-Cucumber Soup With Basil
Not quite a gazpacho, because it contains no bread, this is a summer soup that I can keep in the refrigerator and enjoy every day for lunch or dinner.
Boozy Sour Cherries
This recipe's little boozy sour cherries are both tart and sweet at the same time and would be the perfect garnish for a Manhattan or an Old Fashioned.
Mini Corn Dogs
In the spirit of summer fairs all over the country, I made a lightly sweetened cornmeal batter, then dunked hot dog chunks into it and deep-fried them into bronzed nuggets — in other words, bite-size corn dogs. (Feel free to fry whole hot dogs on sticks if you’re going for authenticity.)
Chicken Piri-Piri
Grilled chicken piri-piri is another classic Portuguese recipe, and great for summer. The chicken is fabulous cold and ideal for picnics or a summer dinner.
Wilted Cucumber Salad
This wilted cucumber salad recipe is simple but complements a variety of dishes. This can be doubled or tripled depending on the size of your picnic.
Socca with Sesame and Cilantro
I once read an article about the socca of Nice and always thought I needed to try it someday. Preferably by visiting in person, but today I traveled there via my taste buds. Socca is two ingredients plus water and salt and pepper, how great is that, especially when it tastes so good! Anyway I hope to someday try the real thing, with iced rose wine as the internet leads me to believe is the way to enjoy it. I am offering a variation on the socca theme, but really the two-ingredient version is pretty amazing! - Sadassa_Ulna
All-Purpose Recipe for Food (a la Bittman)
We’ve found this all-purpose recipe to be adaptable to almost any cuisine.
Trumpafella Skank (The Donald on the half shell)
You are cheap, poor and lazy. And you can afford one oyster just to live like the Donald for about 5 seconds. One taste is all you get. Now back to your double wide. I wrote up this recipe four years ago but it seems more relevant than ever.
Roasted Asparagus with Balsamic Brown Butter
My mom found this recipe in a magazine several years ago and has used it to convert many former asparagus haters (including herself!). I love it for its simplicity- you can throw it together in 15 minutes flat- and sheer addictiveness- you'll be putting the sauce on everything.