Bread & Baking
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Mom's 'Instant Party' Chile con Queso
Chile con Queso did the heavy-lifting for my mother. As far as crowd-pleasing party food goes, it is a sure thing: dead-easy recipe, consistent, and good.
Migas Breakfast Tacos
Tortilla chips in tacos may seem like overkill, but they’re not. Set into scrambled eggs that are loaded with onions and poblanos, they soften and enrich the mix while keeping some crispiness. A slice of avocado on top — along with melted cheese — adds a nice creaminess to the mix. These tacos work well with red or green salsa, so use your favorite. While these would impress at a weekend brunch, they also come together quickly on weekday mornings, and can be wrapped in foil to be eaten out of hand.
Stuffed Zucchini Simmered in Tomato Sauce (Zucchine Ripiene alla Romana)
One of my favorite dinner party recipes is this zucchine ripiene alla Romana, which is Stuffed Zucchini filled with a mixture of meat In Tomato Sauce. Yummy!
Unfussy Eggplant Parm
What if eggplant parmesan was more like an open-faced sandwich? To make the breadcrumbs, tear any bread into pieces by hand. This recipe uses the whole eggplant!
Roasted Mushrooms With Braised Black Lentils and Parsley Croutons
The lentils and mushrooms could hold their own, independently, as dependable side dishes, able to play to any menu lead from whole roasted sea bass to suckling pig. The bright, lemony, parsleyed brown-butter croutons, though, are what transforms an otherwise pleasant member of the cast to serious scene stealer.
Grilled Steak Tacos With Cherry Tomato-Avocado Salsa
In this supremely summery taco recipe, chile-rubbed grilled steak is topped with a spicy tomato-avocado salsa before being rolled into warm corn tortillas. Grilling the onions, garlic and jalapeño for the salsa adds a concentrated sweetness, while lime zest keeps everything sharp and bright. If you don’t have access to a grill, feel free to use your broiler.
Shortbread, 10 Ways
Shortbread is not only one of the easiest desserts you can possibly make, it’s also one of the most adaptable. As long as you keep the butter-to-flour ratio constant (1 stick butter to 1 cup flour), everything else is negotiable. You can reduce or increase the sugar and salt, or mix in any type of flavoring from citrus zest to vanilla to herbs and spices. You can even alter the type of flour, swapping in some rice flour for all-purpose flour for increased crunch, or cornmeal for a nubby texture. Just be cautious about adding liquid to the dough; any more than one tablespoon could interfere with the texture. Here we give a master recipe and nine variations to play around with.
Torn Croutons
Store-bought croutons simply can’t compete with homemade ones. To begin with, your raw ingredients are almost certainly of a higher quality, and hence more delicious, than the stuff anyone else will use. What’s more, the rustic, uneven shape of torn croutons, like these croutons from "Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat" by Samin Nosrat, lends a variety of textures to your salads. Dressing clings to them better, they’re more lovely to look at, and they are less likely to scratch the roof of your mouth.
Thanksgiving Leftover Potato Fritters
Simply combine whatever leftover potatoes you've got with an egg, some breadcrumbs, and spices in this recipe. These fritters are amazingly delicious.
Weight Watchers Banana Bread
Healthy banana bread with good-for-you ingredients like pumpkin and banana.
Ma’amoul
Ma’amoul are popular Middle Eastern shortbread cookies flavored with mahlab — a powdered spice made of cherry pits — and orange blossom water. They’re usually stuffed with crushed pistachios, crushed walnuts or date paste and stamped with geometric designs. They are often presented as gifts during high holidays, and are best enjoyed with tea or Turkish coffee. This version, which came to The Times by way of Dalia Mortada in a Sunday Review piece she wrote about Syrian food, is adapted from Rana Jebran, a founder of HoneyDoe, a Syrian catering company in Chicago.
Yuca Tortillas
Delicious Paleo, gluten-free, grain-free, nut-free, egg-free, dairy-free tortilla!
Martha Rose Shulman's Chicken Fajitas
The ingredient that makes this marinade both spicy and sweet is adobo sauce from canned chiles in adobo, a useful sauce that I had not thought to use in marinades until I was introduced to the idea by the cookbook author and television host Pati Jinich. The sauce has enough heat, so I don’t use the canned chipotles, though you could add one if you wanted. I hold back a couple of tablespoons of the marinade and use it to finish the vegetables and deglaze the pan.
Kale-Romaine Caesar Salad
Caesar salad, done right, is a bowl full of contrasts: cool, watery leaves against dry, crunchy croutons; sharp lemon against rich cheese, and biting garlic against soothing egg. Most recipes focus on flavor; this one also unlocks the Caesar's secrets of temperature, texture, heat and umami. Kale and romaine make an ideal combination of greens, but all romaine or all kale is fine: just stay away from tender, wilting leaves like mesclun and Bibb lettuce. Using strong greens also means that the salad can be tossed up to two hours before serving, as long as it is kept cold. We use an easy microwave method to poach the egg, but the more traditional saucepan will work, too.
Chocolate Peppermint Bars
A little-known fact: Creamy chocolate-covered peppermint patties are not hard to make at home. Here, the minty filling and chocolate coating are layered onto a cocoa-imbued shortbread base, which adds a cookie crunch to each bite. These keep well, so you can make them a week ahead; store airtight at room temperature. They also freeze well. The coconut oil makes the chocolate coating slightly shinier and a little more brittle in a good way, so use it if you have it. But if you don't have it on hand, you can omit it.
Meera Sodha’s Naan
The British cookbook author learned this recipe from her aunt Harsha, and included it in her “Made in India: Recipes from an Indian Family Kitchen” in 2015. It is simple to make, and results in crackly-soft flatbreads singed by heat and yielding to tenderness within, with a faint tang of yogurt. It is exactly the sort of thing you’d love to dip in a pool of curry again and again. Just set up an assembly line to roll out the dough and cook it in a hot pan. Once you make the recipe two or three times you’ll never buy naan again.
Garlic Soup With Pasta and Peas
This garlic soup, which is based on a Provençal recipe, requires a minimal number of the staples that I always have on hand. It calls for garlic; eggs; some sort of pasta; a green vegetable that can be as simple as the limp bunch of broccoli in my crisper or, as I use in this recipe, frozen peas; and Parmesan or Gruyère for the garnish.
Piadina Romagnola (Thin, Rustic Italian Flatbread)
The humble piadina romagnola recipe is a round, rustic, tortilla-like flatbread that is much-loved all over Italy. It bakes a beautiful, ancestral bread.
CRISPY TORTILLAS W GUAJILLO CHOCOLATE SAUCE
Mexican-inspired chocolate recipe using some of my favourite stone-ground staples.
A Slice of Spain: The Spanish Tortilla
This basque tortilla recipe boasts a complex flavor introduced by five humble ingredients, much like the Spanish culture rooted in the simple things.
Tortilla Soup With Roasted Cauliflower 'Rice'
This is not exactly authentic, but I wanted to add a vegetable to my tortilla soup, to make it more of a dinner in a bowl, so I decided to shave cauliflower, toss the ricelike pieces with oil and chili powder, and roast it. I loved the addition of the spicy roasted cauliflower to each bowl of soup, along with the tortilla crisps that I toasted in the microwave rather than frying. You can make this soup even more substantial by adding eggs (see the variation that follows the recipe).
Panzanella of Plenty
Panzanella is a Tuscan summer bread salad, often made to use up stale bread. The typical panzanella consists of chunks of stale bread and tomatoes, cucumbers, onion and basil, dressed with olive oil and vinegar. So why are we talking about a summer salad for Thanksgiving? Reader Jessica Benoit offers this fall version of panzanella, inspired by her first Thanksgiving abroad and thoughts of the traditional stuffing her family ate during holidays in New England with extended family.
Cornmeal and Manchego “Flatbreads"
This recipe makes a thin and savory, crispy, yet fluffy flatbread. When you serve this cornmeal flatbread, serve it with fresh tomatoes or a bowl of arugula.
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I've eaten them many times at my sister's (its her recipe!) home. Am excited to make them at my own!