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Spring-Vegetable Risotto

Risotto With Parsnips and Greens
Risotto is a fine option for brunch, lunch or dinner. With a minimum of ingredients and fuss, it is ready in about a half-hour, and always appreciated.

Aloo Kofta (Fried Potato Balls)

Leek, Potato and Zucchini Pancakes With Baby Lettuces

Roasted Mushrooms With Garlic

Sautéed Corn, Greens, Bacon and Scallions
This recipe came to The Times by way of Katie Workman, author of “The Mom 100 Cookbook,” a book for parents who want to feed their kids (and themselves) wholesome meals that also taste good. She took as her motto for the vegetables chapter: “They can’t eat only raw baby carrots for the rest of their lives.” She believes that reasonably lavish applications of fat (bacon bits, butter, cheese, oil) make vegetables instantly palatable, and she is right. Her default technique is to sauté a shallot in butter, turn the vegetables in the pan until they start to soften, then cover tightly and let them cook in their own steam, testing them often. Here, a colorful medley of fresh corn, bell pepper, and kale are sautéed with bacon fat, butter and shallots, then tossed with bacon bits and scallions. It's endlessly versatile – substitute carrots or summer squash for peppers, onions for shallots, spinach for kale – and could very well win over the pickiest of eaters.

Fast Late-Summer Jams
These quick jams are not preserves. They don't keep for months. But they don't have to, because they'll be gone long before they begin to spoil. Here are a few fast ways to hold on to the flavors of summer. The fig jam is good spread on toast, but also when served as a kind of chutney beside grilled meats. The peach or nectarine variation will add an ambrosial depth to your toast. And the blueberry jam? Its canvas is ice cream, or hot pancakes. In any case, use your spices sparingly, and let the fruit shine.

Wild Rice with Liver and Mushrooms (Riz Sauvage Derby)

Fall Vegetable Cookpot: Braised Red and Green Cabbage

Artichokes With Caviar Sauce

Mushroom and Kasha Stuffing

Black and Arborio Risotto With Beets and Beet Greens
The red from the beets will bleed into the white rice in this nutrient-dense risotto. Both the beets and the black rice contribute anthocyanins, flavonoids with antioxidant properties.

Risotto With Swiss Chard

Grilled Peppers with Garlic Yogurt
This dish is very much in the Turkish spirit of mixing warm vegetables with cool, garlicky yogurt. Various types of peppers will work. This is a typical Turkish way to use grilled peppers. Turkish cuisine features cool, garlicky yogurt with warm vegetables. You can use a mix of peppers for this (in Turkey, longish, thin-skinned green peppers are the norm), and you don’t have to stick to sweet peppers, though I prefer the sweet against the pungent yogurt. Roasted peppers will keep for a week in the refrigerator. They will continue to release liquid, which they can marinate in. Warm the peppers before serving, or serve them at room temperature with the topping.

Ultrafast Avocado Soup
Little or no cooking is one way to keep the kitchen cool in the summer, but if the food you produce is cool (and delicious, of course), that’s a real plus. Cold soups are a common solution. It’s difficult to imagine one simpler than this one, and impossible to imagine one richer and creamier.

Risotto With Shrimp And Arugula

Wild Rice and Arborio Risotto With Corn and Red Pepper
Though chefs these days get away with calling all sorts of grainy dishes risottos, the finished products often lack the creamy texture that makes classic risottos so appealing. But that creamy texture is possible if whole grains are cooked separately and combined with some arborio rice, the traditional risotto rice. Wild rice and corn contribute a New World character to this multicolored, multitextured risotto. The dish is delicious with or without the cheese.

Fennel and Mushroom Salad

Bok Choy With Shiitakes

Risotto Alla Milanese

Black Rice and Arborio Risotto With Artichokes
You can use fresh baby artichokes for this if they’re in season. Otherwise, it may be easier to find frozen ones.

Frejon (Beans in Coconut Milk)
A simple dish of cooked beans puréed with coconut milk, frejon is an ode to the coastal city of Lagos and its rich cultural diversity. Typically served with a seafood stew, it is accompanied here by a vibrant, chunky tomato sauce laced with the heat of habanero, the richness of red palm oil and a hit of umami from dried crayfish, which is optional but highly recommended. A garnish of garri (coarsely ground and dehydrated cassava) adds some necessary texture; lime zest and bright green herbs lends freshness.

Not Risotto With Shrimp and Winter Squash
