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Walnut, Cracked Coriander and Cumin Rolls With Stilton And Honey

New-Wave Chowchow

Pork Grillades and Grits
Before Hurricane Katrina came to New Orleans, John Besh was simply a good chef with a fancy restaurant that had a habit of making top 10 lists around the country. After the storm, he became known as the ex-Marine who rode into the flooded city with a gun, a boat and a bag of beans and fed New Orleans until it could feed itself. This is his take on a classic New Orleans dish of long-simmered medallions of meat in a thick gravy, served over grits, and it is totally and completely delicious. (Sam Sifton)

Bread Pudding With Dried Cranberries and Bourbon

Scrambled Eggs, With Smoked Salmon in Brioche

Grandma Salazar's Tortillas
This recipe for flour tortillas came to The Times in 2005 from Traci Des Jardins, a San Francisco chef whose heritage is Cajun on one side and Mexican on the other, via her maternal grandmother, Angela Salazar. You’ll see “bacon drippings” in the ingredients. These make for really delicious tortillas.

Eggs With Gigante Beans and Harissa
A combination of soft beans, harissa-imbued vegetables, crisp-edged fried eggs and salty bits of cured tuna (or prosciutto), this unusual brunch dish is substantial and interesting enough to serve for dinner. While the chef Ignacio Mattos of Estela restaurant in New York City designed the dish around the plump gigante beans, any white bean, canned or freshly cooked, will work just as well. You can make the the beans and harissa mixture a few days ahead. But don't start toasting the bread until the last minute. You need it as crisp as possible to contrast with all the other soft textures.

Strawberry Oatmeal Muffins

Maple-Cardamom Saffron Sticky Buns
I love to sprinkle nigella seeds over the tops of these fragrant buns — they look great and the savory nigella contrasts well with the sweet dough. (Sesame seeds would work, too.) Clotted cream is the perfect accompaniment, but if you can’t find it, crème fraîche or mascarpone would also be lovely — whether at breakfast or teatime.

Butternut Squash Tea Bread

Turkey Cutlets Marsala
Here is a recipe adapted from one written by Elizabeth David, the erudite British cookbook writer who died in 1992. Jill Norman beautifully reanimated it in her 2010 book “At Elizabeth David’s Table” and we took it along ever so slightly in the name of ease: lightly browned cutlets in a sauce of Marsala wine. The cooking is gentle, and takes little time. It pairs nicely with a mushroom risotto or a pile of rice.

Apricot-Fig Trifle With Caramel Sauce

Stuffed Butternut Squash

Freds’ Chicken Salad With Balsamic Dressing
This salad is a perennial favorite at Freds, the glittery see-and-be-seen restaurant inside Barneys New York. The recipe calls for a whole roasted chicken, so you'll need to build in time to allow one to cool after roasting, or you can use leftovers or a store-bought rotisserie chicken instead. When prepping the vegetables and pear, make sure the pieces are more or less the same size. And remember to sprinkle the pear with lemon juice to keep it from discoloring, and cut the avocado just before serving. Precision never goes out of fashion.

Tomato Tart With Fresh Mozzarella and Anchovies
This rectangular tart is like a pizza but easier. Instead of a yeast dough, the base is a crisp pastry made with olive oil. The recipe makes enough dough for 2 tarts.

Smoked Bluefish Salad
Bluefish get a bad rap — people tend to describe their flavor as fishy and overpowering — but when the fish is caught fresh and eaten within a few days, it is elegant, fatty and substantial. It particularly shines when you steam or smoke it, as these methods can stand up to the fat. Here, the smoked bluefish is layered with tomatoes and hard-boiled egg with a buttermilk dressing. But you could just as easily take the smoked fish and serve it on hearty rye toast with crème fraîche and dill.

Eggs Florentine

Pumpkin and Ginger Scones
Just in case you didn’t get enough pumpkin pie flavor at the Thanksgiving table, here’s a nice breakfast pastry for the day after.

Cream Scones

Bread Pudding Frittata
At El Rey Coffee Bar and Luncheonette, you can get this rich, silky egg terrine all day long, but it’s particularly wonderful at breakfast or brunch. Although it does take time to put together, you can do all of it well ahead – up to 24 hours. And the last minute work is minimal (slice an avocado, chop up some fresh herbs). Don’t be tempted to skip the frequent stirring while the dish bakes. It may seem fussy, but in fact is the key to the luscious texture, which is somewhere between custard and bread pudding.

Olie-koecken (Fruit-and-Nut Fritters)

Blueberry Scones

Zuni Café’s Focaccia
The excellent hamburger at Zuni Café in San Francisco has always been served on a square of toasted rosemary focaccia. The pastry chef Annie Callan offers this house recipe: Scaled to a reasonable size, it is easy to put together and fun to make. Bake it in a 9-by-12-inch rimmed baking sheet for a nice, thick focaccia that can be cut into six 4-inch squares (the trimmings are a delicious snack), and split horizontally into a hamburger bun. The baked focaccia can be kept for several days in an airtight container and needs only a brief toasting to bring it back to life. But you can also roll the dough thinner and bake a more pizzalike flatbread, perhaps topped with stewed onions or peppers.
