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Uncooked Tomato and Mint Sauce with Poached Eggs
This dish turns summer tomatoes into a salsa cruda that can also work well with most any kind of fish. My friend and colleague Clifford A. Wright serves this delicious salsa cruda with grilled salmon. It’s also wonderful with most other fish, grilled, oven-roasted or pan-cooked, and it makes a terrific sauce for foods like cooked grains, the vegetarian burgers I published a few weeks ago or simply cooked green vegetables. One of my favorite uses is in a Mediterranean huevos rancheros: poach an egg, set it on a lightly charred corn tortilla, sprinkle the egg with a little salt and pepper if desired and spoon on the sauce.
Tostadas With Beans, Cabbage and Avocado
Beans are traditionally fried in lard, but I use a small amount of grapeseed or sunflower oil instead, and rely on the broth from the beans for flavor. This is a great buffet dish for a Mexican dinner party. I prefer to toast the tortillas using the microwave method, but you can also deep-fry them.
Steamed Clams in Spicy Tomato Sauce
Include mollusks in your seafood week. Clams are high in Omega 3 fatty acids, low in calories, and very high in iron.
Rice With Roasted Peppers And Beans
Arroz con Habichuelas (Beans and Rice)
Asparagus 'Guacamole'
Suvir Saran’s Guacamole With Toasted Cumin
The chef Suvir Saran says that “avocados make people happy,” and he’s right. He adds toasted cumin seeds, which he refers to as “Indian bacon bits,” to his chunky guacamole. This guacamole has all the flavors of a Mexican guacamole – illustrating yet again how Indian, Middle Eastern, Mediterranean and Mexican cuisines overlap. In fact, the ingredients here are identical to those that I have always used in my guacamole; but this recipe has the added delight of texture, as the ingredients aren’t mashed up. This is best served sooner than later as the avocado color will fade, but it has a few hours of holding power.
Potato Gratin
Puréed Mushroom Soup
Thick and creamy, with no cream, this tastes so much richer than it is. I use a small amount of milk to thin out the soup, but you can also use stock to thin it, if you don’t want to include any dairy.
Crab and Black Beans
Mango Lime Sorbet
This sorbet is tangy and not very sweet. I added only enough sugar and corn syrup to allow the mixture to freeze properly without developing ice crystals.
Mango Lassi Ice
I set out to make something more like a sherbet, a mango lassi ice. I calculated the amount of sweetening needed for the right texture and flavor in a blend of buttermilk and mango. As a general rule, the sugar in fruit ice should be 15 to 20 percent of the weight of the fruit. This time, I used honey instead of sugar. The result is a creamy, tangy sherbet.
Winter Slaw With Lemon-And-Orange Dressing
Coleslaw With Mango
Shredded Beet and Radish Slaw With Rice Noodles
I intended this mixture as a filling for spring rolls, and you can certainly use it this way (though it’s a bit moist). But having mixed it together I tasted it and it was so good, I just wanted to sit down and eat it for dinner, which is what I did – and for lunch the following day. If you do want to wrap this salad, I suggest wrapping it in romaine lettuce leaves.
Oatmeal Chocolate-Chip Cookies
Fruit, Poached and Marinated
Fruit compotes make great compromise desserts; they’re sweet, but not as sweet as sorbets, and like sorbets they don’t require flour, butter or pastry skills. I didn’t develop any kind of knack for pastry until I began collaborating with pastry chefs on their cookbooks, but for years I managed to round out my dinner parties with fruit-based desserts(though the children of my friend Clifford Wright used to roll their eyes when I brought dessert – “She doesn’t bring dessert, she brings fruit,” they’d say). I revisited some of those desserts this week, particularly various fruits poached in wine, and I still find them delightful. I find that I’m sometimes negligent about eating fruit in the colder months, but not when I have some wine-poached pears, bananas or prunes in the refrigerator. I am as likely to stir the fruit, with its luscious syrup, into my morning yogurt as to eat it for dessert, andthe compotes are good keepers. Early spring is an in-between time for fruit. Stone fruits aren’t ready yet and it’s not really apple, pear or citrus season either, though all of those fall-winter fruits are still available. I poached pears in red wine and bananas in white wine, and used dried fruits for two of my compotes, prunes poached in red wine and a dried-fruit compote to which I also added a fresh apple and pear. For the last compote of the week I combined blood oranges and pink grapefruit in arefreshing citrus-caramel syrup, and topped the fruit with pomegranate seeds. Even if my friend’s kids wouldn’t agree, this was definitely dessert. Bananas Poached in Vanilla-Scented Chardonnay Summary:Don’t overcook the bananas in this easy dish, and you’ll be rewarded with a fragrant, delicious dessert. I am usually not one forbananas in desserts, but this, if you’re careful not to overcook the bananas, is heavenly. Years ago, in the early days of my career as a vegetarian caterer, I made it often; it was one of my most requested desserts. These days I’m as likely to spoon some of the bananas with their fragrant syrup into a bowl of morning yogurt as I am to serve it after a meal.
Spicy Celery With Garlic
French Quarter Chocolate Torte
Buttermilk Chocolate Sauce
Spaghettini With Spicy Lentil Sauce
Fettuccine With Pumpkin And Mushrooms