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Chicken Tagine With Eggplant and Olives
Priorat, near the Mediterranean coast of Spain and a stone’s throw from Barcelona, produces wines with dark fruit flavors, spice, bold complexity and ample alcohol. To compete with reds like these, the food alongside must take no prisoners.It would have been simple enough to sear some rib-eyes, lamb chops or lusty sausages. But I looked across the Mediterranean to North Africa and came up with a tagine in which chicken is coated with robust spices and becomes more than mere white noise. Eggplant and olives round out the dish, and a splash of sherry vinegar brightens the sauce.If you have yet to equip your kitchen with a genuine terra-cotta tagine, you can cook the dish in a covered sauté pan or a fancy-pants tagine of enameled cast iron.
Panini With Artichoke Hearts, Spinach and Red Peppers
Here’s a great way to pack a lot of nutrients into a sandwich. If you use frozen artichoke hearts, the panini are quickly assembled.
Salmon With Crushed Blackberries and Seaweed
A traditional staple on the Pacific Northwest coast, salmon is considered a sacred food. This dish is often slow-roasted on cedar or redwood spikes near an open fire, giving the fish a beautiful smoky flavor. In the kitchen, searing the salmon in a skillet allows the true flavor of wild-caught fish to shine through. Seaweed harvesting goes back countless generations, and so the salty seaweed is a great accompaniment here, along with the sweet local blackberries, a combination that is natural for the Muckleshoot and other tribes of the region.
Veal Loin With Artichokes And Spinach With Paprika Sauce
Moroccan Pancakes
Mourad Lahlou, the chef of Aziza in San Francisco, has invented entirely new breads like harissa-spiked rolls, grilled semolina flatbreads and these delicate lacy pancakes (beghrir) made with almond flour.
Stir-Fried Beef With Black Beans And Onions
Crab and Artichoke Stew With Garlic Croutons
This stew is an amalgam of West Coast flavors: fresh artichokes, Dungeness crab, citrus and, yes, chardonnay. You'll start by making crab stock from the Dungeness crabs, cooking them in water, picking them clean of meat and boiling their shells to extract as much flavor as possible from these giants of the sea. Orange zest brightens the broth and artichoke hearts, diced potatoes and crab meat give the stew enough heft to warm you on a foggy afternoon. Make extra croutons. Diners will want seconds, or thirds.
Tangia of Cumin
Baked Spinach-Artichoke Pasta
Toss spinach-artichoke dip with pasta, and it feels right at home on the dinner table. This recipe, which nixes the traditional cream cheese for a blend of salty Parmesan and heavy cream, is prepared on the stovetop and requires only 10 minutes of active cooking before it’s slid into the oven. As with any baked pasta, the key is to cook the shells until pointedly shy of al dente and to toss them with a sauce that seems excessively wet, as the pasta will tenderize and the sauce will thicken in the oven. These ingredients skew classic, but there is infinite room to riff: Swap in chopped kale or mustard greens in place of the spinach, experiment with cheese combinations, stir in mustard or caramelized onions or top with crumbled bacon.
Chicken Salad With Fennel, Daikon and Scallions
Penne With Artichokes And Mushrooms
Spinach and Red Pepper Frittata
Spinach and red peppers bring vitamin A and vitamin C to this beautiful frittata. Spinach is also an excellent source of a long list of other nutrients, including vitamin K, manganese, folate and magnesium. And it’s packed with protective phytonutrients, including the newly discovered glycoglycerolipids, which some researchers believe may help protect the digestive tract from inflammation.
Quiche With Red Peppers and Spinach
The real spring vegetable here is the spinach, lush and beautiful at this time of year. You can always get red peppers in a supermarket, and when you cook them for a while, as you do here, even the dullest will taste sweet. I make the pepper mixture first, then wilt the spinach in the same pan and line the tart shell with the savory mix. If you can, make the pepper and spinach filling a day ahead. It dries out a little if it sits overnight in the refrigerator and is less likely to dilute the custard.
Sichuan-Style Poached Sea Bass With Hot Bean Sauce
Chicken Baked With Morels, Artichokes And Peas
Trini-Chinese Chicken
Chinese-style chicken is a dish you can find all over Trinidad and within the diaspora that has followed the nation’s emergence from British rule. The skin is fried into a lacquered mahogany. The meat beneath it tastes of five-spice, ginger and soy and is generally accompanied by a hum of oyster sauce mixed with the zing of the pickled Scotch-bonnet-pepper sauce that is seemingly omnipresent on the island’s tables.
Clams in Black-Bean Sauce
“Clams in black-bean sauce is another American mainstay: bright, piquant, boasting more loudly of its flavorings than of its clams,” Nicole Mones wrote in The New York Times Magazine in 2007. Adapted from her husband, Paul, this recipe comes together quickly. Salted black beans are paired with bright aromatics, a wine-infused broth and briny clams, possibly the best part. As Ms. Mones wrote, “Discovering the baby clams at the bottom in their little bath of broth is the dish’s final delight.”
Peppery Panko Perciatelli
Lamb Tagine With Baby Artichokes And Mint
Potato Lasagnas With Monkfish and Shallot Vinaigrette
Stir-Fried Tofu With Cabbage, Carrots and Red Peppers
This is a beautiful stir-fry using vegetables that are easy to keep on hand, as they all stay fresh for more than a week in the refrigerator.
Cauliflower Gnocchi
Gnocchi, or Italian dumplings, are traditionally made with flour and potatoes, but they can also be made with ricotta or other vegetables like pumpkin or spinach. Here, they’re made with a combination of cauliflower and potato. The cauliflower is roasted alongside the potato, which helps intensify the vegetable’s natural sweetness. If short on time, the gnocchi can be made in advance through Step 4 and frozen. (Arrange gnocchi in a single layer on a baking sheet and freeze until firm, then pack into resealable freezer bags.) When ready to use, sauté the frozen gnocchi as in Step 5, increasing the cook time as needed, or heat gently in tomato sauce, or even just melted butter, until tender.
Hunan Chicken Jui-Hsaing Tang, David K's