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Quick Tomato, White Bean and Kale Soup
A hearty bean soup does not always require hours on the stove. Using the canned variety cuts the cook time down drastically for this colorful recipe, which takes no more than an hour start to finish. You can save even more time by tackling some prep while starting to sauté the soup.
Pan-Cooked Celery With Tomatoes and Parsley
You can serve this as a side dish or as a topping for grains or pasta. It is adapted from a recipe in “Cooking From an Italian Garden,” by Paola Scaravelli and Jon Cohen.
Mediterranean Lentil Purée
The spicing here is the same as one used in a popular Egyptian lentil salad. The dish is inspired by a lentil purée that accompanies bread at Terra Bistro in Vail, Colo.
Vegan Pumpkin-Cinnamon Rolls With Cranberry
Vegans and non-vegans alike love these light and tender pumpkin rolls from Chloe Coscarelli that are filled with cranberry sauce and glazed with maple icing. The dough tends to be sticky, so add flour as needed during the rolling process. If you want to make them ahead, cover the risen assembled rolls with plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight. Remove the plastic wrap and bake the next day.
5-Ingredient Apple Pie
This straightforward recipe for apple pie is from the vegan chef and cookbook author Chloe Coscarelli. It calls for storebought crusts, so you really can throw it together and have it in the oven in about 15 minutes.
White Bean, Summer Squash and Tomato Ragout
Serve this hearty ragout on its own or with pasta or whole grains.
French Potato and Green Bean Salad
If this sounds like a pared-down salade niçoise, it is. Make a bold vinaigrette that is unapologetically fragrant with garlic and anchovy. Boil medium-size potatoes in their skins. Peel, slice and dress them while they are still slightly warm. You can even do the work in advance and then assemble it all just before serving. Authentic, traditional or somewhere in between, maybe we’ll just call this a potato salad with a southern French accent and let it go at that.
Easy Christmas Pudding (Without the Rum)
Cranberry Chutney
This no-cook, three-ingredient cranberry sauce from Daniel Humm, the chef of Eleven Madison Park and NoMad in New York, could not be simpler. Just toss cranberries, sugar and orange zest into the bowl of a mixer with a paddle attachment (a food processor won't work), flip it on the lowest setting and go about your business for an hour. When you return, you'll have a bright, chunky chutney that has more flavor and personality than the cooked sort.
Black Kale and Black Olive Salad
This sophisticated-looking number centers on the dark green version of kale known variously as black, Tuscan or lacinato kale. The leaves are cut into thin ribbons, but left raw, then combined with cut black olives and a dressing of olive oil and sherry vinegar. Shower some Parmesan over the top and you have a recipe that can hold its own on any table, at any time.
Pumpkin Seed Battered 'Chicken' With Cranberry Cabernet Sauce
This hearty entrée has it all: tantalizing cutlets battered in crunchy, seasoned breadcrumbs, all covered in a robust, rich sauce. This lovely centerpiece dish, created by VegNews contributing chef Tal Ronnen, has been known to leave meat-eating relatives begging for seconds.
Roasted Vegetable Galette With Olives
The natural sugar in the vegetables caramelizes during roasting, giving this tart from Eating Well magazine an incredible sweet-savory flavor. Roasted garlic adds a mellow note and moistens the filling. This is a very adaptable recipe: experiment with different vegetables – eggplant, bell peppers, zucchini – and cheeses like fontina or Jarlsberg, just be sure to cut the vegetables uniformly (about 3/4-inch pieces).
Seitan Roulade With Oyster Mushroom Stuffing
This savory entrée by VegNews food columnist Robin Robertson is filled with flavorful stuffing and covered in a zesty marinade, making it a classic, meat-free main course. This homemade wheat meat comes together in less than 10 minutes and makes the perfect plant-based substitute in stews, stir-fries and sandwiches.
Thanksgiving Roasted Root Veggies
This simple recipe for roasted vegetables came to The Times from Dr. Andrew Weil, the popular alternative health physician. It's ridiculously easy, and so versatile. Choose a single vegetable or a combination of potatoes, carrots, parsnips, turnips, rutabagas, beets or sweet potatoes. Cut, then toss with olive oil and paprika or chili powder. Roast until tender and brown. Twenty minutes before they're done, toss several garlic cloves into the pan. The garlic will infuse the surrounding vegetables with flavor, and you can spread the softened cloves on bread.
Parsnip Ecrasse
This easy mashed side dish from Daniel Humm, the chef of Eleven Madison Park and NoMad in New York, substitutes the delicately sweet parsnip for the traditional potato. "I think sometimes with the parsnip, people are maybe a little afraid and don't use it as often,'' Mr. Humm says. "That’s why we wanted to include this recipe and show how simple it is. And it's really flavorful.''
Endive and Radicchio Salad With Caramelized Pear
This recipe came to The Times from Bruno Davaillon, the executive chef of the celebrated Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek restaurant in Dallas. It is an elegant twist on the ubiquitous blue cheese-pear salad combination. Grilling the radicchio removes the bitterness from the leafy green, helping it to better complement the pears and endive.
Rhubarb Ice Cream With a Caramel Swirl
This ice cream is chock-full of sweet bits, but with enough satiny frozen custard to savor between the chunks. To keep the rhubarb from freezing into tooth-breaking fruity ice cubes, stew it with plenty of sugar, which keeps the fruit soft. The technique works with any summer fruit, though it’s especially nice with rhubarb, or gooseberries for that matter, both of which need a lot of sugar to tame their squint-inducing acid content. But you can substitute strawberries, apricots, cherries, peaches or plums as the summer fruit season progresses, adjusting the sugar depending upon the sweetness of the fruit.
Taking Stock After Thanksgiving
After Thanksgiving, I use the turkey carcass to make a rich-tasting stock that I can pull out of the freezer in the months ahead to use in risottos, soups and stews. The stock is easy to make but requires a long simmer, six hours if possible. So during the long weekend following Thanksgiving, I try to set aside an afternoon at home to simmer a pot of turkey stock on the stove.
Cornbread Stuffing
This is the best cornbread stuffing because it starts with homemade cornbread that is grainy and savory. I find most cornbread to be very sweet. You can bake the cornbread to serve on its own or make a double batch to use in this stuffing. If you need an even larger quantity of stuffing, quadruple the cornbread recipe and double the stuffing recipe to bake in a 3-quart baking dish (it will take about 45 to 50 minutes) or in two 9-inch pans. Discover more ideas for the big day in our best Thanksgiving recipes collection.
Sweet and Sour Winter Squash
This dish is based on a Sicilian recipe that I learned from the food writer Clifford A. Wright. The sweet and sour flavors are typical of Sicilian cuisine, though I have changed the technique used in the authentic version, which entails sautéing the squash in a lot more oil.
Winter Squash and Potato Gratin
This savory casserole is an almost classic gratin dauphinois (potatoes au gratin), with squash standing in for half of the potatoes and low-fat milk substituting for cream. It is a very comforting dish that can be baked ahead and reheated.
Stir-Fried Winter Squash and Tofu With Soba
Winter squash is a nutrient-dense vegetable, with lots of vitamin A in the form of beta carotene (the more orange the flesh, generally the more vitamin A in the squash), vitamin C, potassium and dietary fiber. Winter squash goes well with ginger, and this stir-fry makes a delicious vegetarian main course. Use a sweet, dense squash like butternut for this dish.
Risotto With Winter Squash and Collard Greens
Collard greens and roasted winter squash are very compatible in this nutritious and rich-tasting risotto. The squash, an excellent source of vitamin A, is sweet and tender, while the collards are earthy, with a slightly chewy texture.
Black-Eyed Peas With Collard Greens
Black-eyed peas with collard greens sounds like a Southern dish, and indeed it would be if you threw in a ham hock and took away the dill. But this recipe actually is inspired by a Greek dish that combines black-eyed peas with wild greens.