Side Dish
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Aztec Hot Chocolate Pudding
It looks alarming when you make it -- it's hard to believe that sprinkling sugar and cocoa on top of a cake batter and then pouring hot water over it will end up edible, but it does, it truly does. This is a luscious, homey dessert, one of those self-saucing puddings that turn themselves as they bake into a layer of gooey sauce topped with tender cake.

Warm Potato Salad

Crispy Potato Cake

A Potato Dish for Julia
This recipe is adapted from “The Pleasures of Cooking for One” by Judith Jones, Julia Child’s longtime editor at Knopf, who gave it to The Sunday Times Magazine in 2009. It is easily prepared and a savory accompaniment to a steak or roast, crisp and buttery, with just a hint of garlic.

Corn Flan

Mushroom Casserole With Ancho Chile and Epazote

Bisque

Salade Juive (Moroccan Confit of Tomatoes and Peppers With Coriander)

Oven-Dried Grapes

Mac-and-Cheese

Spinach Spaetzle With Bacon and Sage
Spaetzle, the delicious little German dumplings (sometimes called batter noodles), are easy to make, though it takes a bit of practice. I prefer to form them with a soup spoon, flicking tiny half-moons of batter one-by-one into the pot, or to put the batter on a board and cut off thin strips of batter with a wet knife. Many cooks use a special spaetzle-making tool that forces squiggles of the batter into a pot of boiling water. Others push the batter through the holes of a colander, but for this you need to make a slightly wetter batter. These are green spaetzle, made with spinach purée, sizzled with bacon and sage leaves. (Instead of spinach, you could add chopped herbs, but plain spaetzle are divine, too.) Spaetzle take only moments to cook and can be prepared in advance, then sautéed in butter to serve.

Dried Mushroom Puree

Grilled Sweet Potato Slices

Braised Cabbage With Apple and Caraway Seeds

Kohlrabi Home Fries
Kohlrabi can be cut into thick sticks like home fries, browned in a small amount of oil, and seasoned with chili powder (my favorite), curry powder, cumin or paprika. It’s a very satisfying and healthy fry.

Gremolata Potatoes

Warm Pickled Peppers

Curried Corn And Sweet Peppers

Grilled Ratatouille

Quick-Pickled Vegetables
Almost any seasonal vegetable will lend itself to being pickled in a mix of apple cider vinegar and rice vinegar, tweaked with a little salt and sugar. Use a mixture of what's in season, and choose small, slender vegetables when you can. Whatever you choose, make sure to scrub vegetables well and peel away roots and thick skins.

Corn Risotto With Okra And Shiitake Mushrooms

Birnen, Bohnen und Speck

Chili-Flavored Rice

Baked-Potato-Style Red Beets
It’s fun to treat beets like baked potatoes sometimes, roasting them skin-on, and serving them with “all the fixings.” For simplicity’s sake, arrange little bowls of the usual suspects — crème fraîche or sour cream, chives, dill, butter and salt and pepper — and let the diners do the work. For special occasions, you can upgrade the presentation with a dab of caviar or trout roe.