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Sautéed Beets With Butter
Stuffed Artichokes With Lemon Zest, Rosemary and Garlic
Tomato Cumin Bread
Braised Spring Carrots and Leeks With Tarragon
Serve this sweet springtime dish as a starter or side dish, or as part of a vegetarian main dish with grains.
Black Bean Pâté
I prefer to cook my own black beans for this pâté. With white and red beans, the difference between canned and home-cooked isn’t significant enough to matter in the pâté. It does matter with the black beans, though. This tastes like a very light version of refried beans.
Buckwheat and Black Kale With Brussels Sprouts
This warm vegetable and grain salad from executive chef Michael Anthony at New York City’s Gramercy Tavern is hearty and satisfying and works as a standalone vegetarian meal or as an accompaniment to roast meat or fish.
Uighur Nan With Cumin and Onion
Potato and Chard Stalk Gratin
If your Swiss chard has wide stems, keep them handy. You can use them in a number of dishes, including this rich gratin.
Beets With Garlic-Walnut Sauce
A departure from the standard pairing of beets with goat cheese is a dressing of walnuts, garlic and fresh orange juice. Note that all of these have some bitterness or acidity, which counter the sweetness of beets beautifully.
Italian Potato-Pasta Soup With Greens
Some soups are light and refreshing preludes to a meal; others, like this one, are an entire meal in a bowl. Pasta and potatoes, like pasta and beans, are frequently combined in Italian vegetable dishes. The potatoes should be starchy, like Yukon Golds or russets, so that they lend body to the broth. Short pasta shapes add texture; onion, fennel, garlic, tomato paste and fresh herbs and greens add flavor. The soup may be made a day or so before serving: It improves in the refrigerator and reheats beautifully, but don’t add the pasta in this case until serving.
Provençal Tomato and Squash Gratin
Some of the tomatoes in this gratin are cooked down to a savory sauce, while the rest are sliced and used to decorate the top.
Spinach Salad With Red and Chioggia Beets, Quinoa and Walnuts
This is one of those salads where the grain enhances texture, adds a nutritional punch, but isn’t what the salad is about. It’s about beets and spinach. I usually slice beets for salads, or cut them into wedges. Buthere I cut them into very small dice, so the quinoa/beets/walnuts/blue cheese mixture comes together in particularly appealing bites.
Spaghetti With Cauliflower, Almonds, Tomatoes and Chickpeas
Pasta with cauliflower comes in many variations throughout Italy. This one is all about texture -- crunchy almonds, tender (but not mushy) cauliflower and plush chickpeas. The original version of this recipe called for quinoa spaghetti (and if you're into that, go for it!), but we've found it's just as tasty with the traditional sort as well.
Stewed Lentils with Cabbage
This humble and hearty combination makes a satisfying main dish, especially on a cold night. Lentils are an excellent source of folate and molybdenum, and a very good source of dietary fiber, protein, and manganese. Any type will work here.
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Forbidden Rice Pudding With Blueberries
This recipe is an adaptation of a wonderful recipe by Sherry Yard, executive pastry chef at Spago Beverly Hills. Forbidden rice, also known as Chinese black rice, is packaged by Lotus Foods and sold at Whole Foods and many gourmet grocers. It becomes purple when cooked, which makes a rice pudding made with Forbidden rice ideal for the addition of blueberries. Serve this for dessert or for breakfast. For a delicious vegan rice pudding, substitute rice beverage for the milk.
Steamed Artichokes With Vinaigrette Dipping Sauce
Artichokes are not the friendliest of vegetables. They are a good source of magnesium, potassium and fiber, and they require a little work, but it’s time well-spent. The simplest way to prepare an artichoke is to steam it, there’s hardly any trimming at all. Serve it with a dipping sauce and work your way, perhaps with a friend or loved one, to the heart. Then scrape away the chokes and divvy up the prize at the middle.
Flash-Cooked Cabbage
Potato Gnocchi, Four Ways
Tomato, Zucchini and Avocado Salad
Whenever you make a dish with uncooked zucchini, be sure to slice or dice it finely, so that the zucchini can absorb the dressing or seasonings. I like to eat this salsa salad with rice.
Whole Wheat Focaccia with Cherry Tomatoes and Olives
Even in mid-September, you can find sweet cherry tomatoes, and they look beautiful in abundance on the top of this focaccia. I combined them with black olives for a bread that transports me to Provençe.
Tunisian Winter Squash Puree
This is one of many North African spicy cooked vegetable purees typically served as a starter. The authentic dish is seasoned with harissa, the spicy hot pepper paste used widely in Tunisia and Algeria. If you can get hold of harissa easily, substitute 1 teaspoon or more to taste for the cayenne. You can serve this as an hors d’oeuvre, side dish or salad.
Tacos With Summer Squash, Tomatoes and Beans
Beans such as pintos, even out of a can, add substance to this summery taco filling. Goat cheese provides a creamy, rich finish.
Pasta with Dried Mushrooms and Tomato Sauce
This meaty, savory pasta sauce is just one reason to keep dried porcini mushrooms on hand. Along with intense flavor, porcinis are an excellent source of riboflavin and niacin, and a good source of selenium and potassium. They also contain a powerful antioxidant called L-ergothioneine.