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Cranberry-Cheddar Gougères
Beef Empanadas
Filipinos take snacking seriously, so much so that we devote an entire meal to it: merienda, which may take place midmorning or midafternoon, if not both. Empanadas are a great treat for this in-between time, but also keep well at room temperature — the grace of food built for a warm climate — so you can graze all day. (My family used to buy these by the tray for parties, but it’s nice to make your own and store them in the freezer for later.) In these, a ground-beef filling is tucked inside sturdy but flaky dough, with raisins added early in the cooking to plump with the beef juices. There are variations on empanadas all over Latin America; ours rely on the potency of onion and garlic, and exploit it to the hilt.
Curried Lentil Soup With Ham
Edamame Tofu Dip
Dairy-free, tahini-free, and rich in protein, this zesty, kid-pleasing dip is a lively, pale green alternative to hummus. Serve it with rice crackers, sliced daikon and/or carrot sticks as a dip, but it’s also thick enough to spread on bread or a pita as a sandwich filling. It will keep for three days in the fridge.
Edamame Pâté
This is an adaptation of a dish that I created in my early vegetarian days, when we cooked a lot with soybeans — although nobody really liked them. It occurred to me one day to add Marmite or Savorex, yeast extracts with an intense, somewhat meaty taste, and to use other seasonings from traditional pâtés to achieve a liverlike flavor. I recreated this pâté with fresh green soybeans, which takes all the hassle out of the original recipe. A quick word about the yeast extract, which many of you may object to because of the high glutamate content. If you use Vegemite, which is lower in glutamates than Marmite, one serving of this pâté (if serving eight) will contain 29 milligrams of free glutamates. To put that in perspective, one ounce of Parmesan cheese contains 300 milligrams of glutamates.
Empanadas
Deep-Fried Steamer Clams
Lumpia Shanghai
Lumpia are cousins to spring rolls, a tradition that most likely goes back to the Chinese traders who first visited the Philippines in the ninth century. As kids, we’d crowd around the kitchen counter to make them, spooning out the filling and rolling up the skins before sliding them into hot oil. They come in different incarnations and may be served unfried and even unwrapped, but the classic is lumpia Shanghai, skinny cigarillos with supercrunchy skins, packed with meat, juices seething. I like dipping them in banana ketchup, which you can buy or improvise by cooking overripe bananas and tomato paste into a sweet-and-sour jam.
Tuna Tartar With Fennel And Green Olive Tapenade
Tempura Of Soft-Shell Crabs
Rosemary Spiced Nuts
These lightly-spiced cocktail nuts are a cut above the store bought sort. Cayenne adds kick, brown sugar balances the salt and fresh rosemary provides an unexpected woodsy note that really makes them something special. They're fancy enough to toss into a shiny cellophane bag, tie with a bow and give as a gift.
Seared Tuna With Caviar
Cheddar Cheese Puffs
Cheddar replaces the more traditional Gruyère, Roquefort or Parmigiano-Reggiano in this French recipe for gougères. The Cheddar performs admirably.
Cold Cantaloupe Soup
Cold cantaloupe soup has become a summer staple in my house, a quick and easy solution to the question of a first course at dinner. I have even served it in espresso cups for guests to sip with cocktails. All it takes is a ripe orange-fleshed melon, like a cantaloupe, or perhaps a musk melon from a farm stand. I chill the melon, and when I’m ready to prepare the soup, I peel and seed it, then cut it into chunks. I find that if I start with a small amount of the chunks in the blender and process them until they are puréed, I can then add the rest gradually with no need for additional liquid. The juice of one lime and salt to taste are all I add, except for a final drizzle of my best balsamic vinegar on top. You can add mint leaves, cayenne or even a garnish of diced prosciutto or feta instead of the vinegar if you wish.
Tuna Sashimi With Hearts of Palm
At Nobu Downtown in New York's financial district, the menu is divided into classics, like black cod with miso, and the rock shrimp tempura, alongside a list of new dishes called "Nobu Now." Among the newcomers is tuna sashimi with a verdant jalapeño dressing garnished with fresh hearts of palm. This dish, at once delicate, bold and handsomely textured, clearly illustrates the chef Nobu Matsuhisa’s cross-cultural approach to food. For him, Japan and South America are not an ocean apart. Another way to serve this sashimi is to dice the tuna into small pieces as you would for tartare, and fold in finely chopped hearts of palm or daikon and some of the dressing, mounding each portion on a plate with a few sprigs of microgreens on top.
Anchovy-Stuffed Eggs
Sambosa Ghousti (Turnovers with ground beef and chickpeas)
Ozoni (Mochi Soup)
People in Japan and the Japanese diaspora hold mochi-making parties in late December, taking turns swinging an enormous mallet, pounding sticky rice in a hollowed-out stump until smooth and stretchy, then shaping it into balls or disks. Some of the mochi is eaten fresh with sweet or savory toppings, and some is offered plain to the spirits. (Stores sell it for anyone too busy to make it.) On New Year’s Day, hardened mochi pieces are reheated and used in ozoni soup. In Kyoto, round vegetables and mochi bob around in a pale miso soup; in Tokyo, rectangular mochi is served in shoyu broth; in Kanazawa, people add multicolored mochi and sweet shrimp to clear dashi; and in Fukui, it’s red miso soup with mochi and nothing else. This recipe, from Corinne Nakagawa Gooden, originates in Hiroshima, and came to Seattle with her grandmother Hisaye Sasaki in the early 1900s.
Marinated Tuna On Daikon
Edamame in the Shell
This recipe for edamame in the shell, brought to The Times by Mark Bittman in 2012, could not be easier. It can be made either on the stovetop or the microwave. Ready in minutes, it makes a perfect snack or complement to a dinner of chicken teriyaki with rice.
Cheese Straws With Pimentón
Back in 2009, Julia Moskin spent some time with Christopher Hirsheimer and Melissa Hamilton, the women behind Canal House Cooking. At the time, the two ran their photo and design studio for cookbooks and magazines out of a former newspaper office in the Delaware River Valley. And they spent their days creating recipes for cocktails and snacks, like these cheese straws with pimentón. Ready in a half-hour, they're as good as a party hors d’oeuvre as they are a snack for the whole family.
Lemon-Caper Dressing
Here’s a salad dressing that falls somewhere between special-occasion Caesar and “toss lemon juice and olive oil onto lettuce.” By adding a craggy paste of capers and garlic and a pouf of shaved Parmesan to the lemon and olive oil, you get a puckery, salty mix that’s packed with umami, just like Caesar, but isn’t weighed down by mayonnaise or egg yolks. It works great on arugula, Romaine, kale or radicchio; steamed or roasted vegetables; hard-boiled eggs; and even grains. The recipe developer's mom has been feeding her this dressing since she could chew. Ali adds a bit more garlic and lemon than what you’ll find here, so adjust it until it tastes good to you.
Grilled Tuna With Salad
