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Samfaina
This Catalan dish is akin to ratatouille, the French dish that rummages around in the summer garden to combine eggplant, zucchini, bell peppers, tomatoes and onions in a pot that simmers over low heat. The vegetables soften and collapse into one another, and the flavors meld. Samfaina goes further, though: The ingredients are chopped into very small pieces, then cooked for several hours until the mixture is so thick and caramelized that it almost resembles a vegetable marmalade. It’s often used as a sauce for rabbit, chicken or salt cod, but it can also be a side dish unto itself. It is a time investment — lots of chopping to be done before hours of cooking and simmering — but your efforts will yield dinner for the rest of the week. The samfaina will taste better the next day, and it’s delicious hot or cold. Spoon it on a sautéed or grilled piece of fish, grilled sausages, poached eggs or a thick piece of toast.
Braised Spring Carrots and Leeks With Tarragon
Serve this sweet springtime dish as a starter or side dish, or as part of a vegetarian main dish with grains.
Veracruzana Vinegar-Bathed Shrimp
Provençal Tomato and Squash Gratin
Some of the tomatoes in this gratin are cooked down to a savory sauce, while the rest are sliced and used to decorate the top.
Spinach Salad With Red and Chioggia Beets, Quinoa and Walnuts
This is one of those salads where the grain enhances texture, adds a nutritional punch, but isn’t what the salad is about. It’s about beets and spinach. I usually slice beets for salads, or cut them into wedges. Buthere I cut them into very small dice, so the quinoa/beets/walnuts/blue cheese mixture comes together in particularly appealing bites.
Spaghetti With Cauliflower, Almonds, Tomatoes and Chickpeas
Pasta with cauliflower comes in many variations throughout Italy. This one is all about texture -- crunchy almonds, tender (but not mushy) cauliflower and plush chickpeas. The original version of this recipe called for quinoa spaghetti (and if you're into that, go for it!), but we've found it's just as tasty with the traditional sort as well.
Forbidden Rice Pudding With Blueberries
This recipe is an adaptation of a wonderful recipe by Sherry Yard, executive pastry chef at Spago Beverly Hills. Forbidden rice, also known as Chinese black rice, is packaged by Lotus Foods and sold at Whole Foods and many gourmet grocers. It becomes purple when cooked, which makes a rice pudding made with Forbidden rice ideal for the addition of blueberries. Serve this for dessert or for breakfast. For a delicious vegan rice pudding, substitute rice beverage for the milk.
Tomato, Zucchini and Avocado Salad
Whenever you make a dish with uncooked zucchini, be sure to slice or dice it finely, so that the zucchini can absorb the dressing or seasonings. I like to eat this salsa salad with rice.
Tacos With Summer Squash, Tomatoes and Beans
Beans such as pintos, even out of a can, add substance to this summery taco filling. Goat cheese provides a creamy, rich finish.
Roasted Apple and Pear Compote With Candied Ginger
This comforting compote should be served warm. If you do want a little indulgence, add a dollop of crème fraîche to each serving.
Spiced Sweet Potato Fries With Chili-Cilantro Cream
Sweet potato french fries will surprise everyone at your holiday table — and nobody will miss the marshmallows. The potatoes are baked, not fried, so no need to feel guilty. Chili powder, cumin, cayenne and paprika complement the natural sweetness of the potatoes. It’s probably a good idea to double this recipe, because they go fast.
Roasted Tomato-Coconut Sauce
This easy sauce, which uses slow-roasted tomatoes, goes great with fish or tofu served on top of a grain (rice, coucous, anything). Just pan-sear your protein very quickly, and you’re ready to eat. If you don’t like tomato skins, blend the tomatoes before you add them, or use an immersion blender on the finished sauce.
Winter Tomato Quiche
You can make a tomato quiche off-season using canned tomatoes for a rich tomato sauce that you blend with the custard filling. When tomatoes are in season I use the same filling but line the tart shell with sliced tomatoes.
Baked Giant White Beans With Cabbage
This slow-baked bean and cabbage dish is luxurious in both taste and texture. The limas become soft and pillowy after their long, slow simmer, while releasing some of their starch into the bean broth; the cabbage sweetens over time and almost melts into the velvety broth. Baked beans with cabbage traditionally contain a ham bone or some salt pork for flavor, but I get that rich umami flavor with Parmesan rinds.
Seared Red Rice With Spinach, Mushrooms, Carrot and Egg
Rice bran oil has a very high smoke point, so it's a perfect oil for searing and stir-fries where that high-heat seared flavor is desired. You can make this dish with any type of rice, but I love the red rice I’ve been finding in whole-foods stores, whether from Thailand or Bhutan.
Celery-Root-and-Cauliflower Bisque
Moroccan Cooked Carrot Salad
There are many versions of this cooked carrot salad throughout the Middle East and North Africa. This one, seasoned with lemon juice, cumin, garlic and olive oil, is always a crowd pleaser.
Risotto With Spring Carrots and Leeks
You can get carrots and leeks year ‘round in the supermarket. In the spring, though, new carrots and leeks, fresh and sweet, come to farmers’ markets, and they’re perfect for this risotto.
Beet, Fennel and Fig Salad With Cranberry-Sage Dressing
Fishmonger’s Stew
This hearty fish and shellfish stew is good for a chilly winter evening. It veers Mediterranean, with a base of leeks and onions, a bit of tomato, potatoes, saffron and garlic.
Swiss Chard Stalk and Tahini Dip
If you are making a Swiss chard dish and don’t know what to do with the stems, save them for this luscious and ingenious Middle Eastern appetizer. Serve it with warm Arabic bread.
Carrot and Leek Frittata With Tarragon
Tarragon enhances the sweetness of the carrots and leeks in this bright frittata.
Quince Compote
Quince is a fruit that grows abundantly throughout the Mediterranean. Though it’s too hard and tart to bite into, it has a wonderful perfume. I like to combine it with apples in this simple compote.
Stuffed Peppers With Red Rice, Chard and Feta
This filling of red rice, greens and feta, seasoned with fresh mint, is hearty and works very nicely with red peppers. Once your rice is cooked and greens are blanched it’s easily thrown together.