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Cold Mustard Greens With Olive Oil And Lemon
Swordfish With Sweet and Hot Peppers
A blissful blend of the reliably sweet (bell peppers, cubanelles, peperoncini) and the reliably fiery (Serranos, chile de arbol, Scotch bonnets) creates blissful balance. Here, the sweet peppers are sautéed slowly with onions to intensify their gentle honeyed character. Half of the hot chiles are left raw, sharp and biting to create as much contrast as possible. Eaten altogether, each bite is both hot and sweet, pungent from a touch of garlic, tart from a squeeze of lemon and faintly saline from the swordfish.
Naked Tofu With Cold Sesame Soba Noodles
Fresh white bean curd has been an integral part of Asian cooking for centuries. Some people turn up their noses: others love this chameleon that tastes like whatever it's cooked with.
Umami Garlic Noodles With Mustard Greens
The key to this heady noodle dish, adapted from “Vietnamese Food Any Day” (Ten Speed Press, 2019), is to build complexity by layering umami flavors in the pan. The cookbook’s author, Andrea Nguyen, starts with ingredients that are familiar to many pan-fried noodle dishes: oyster sauce, fish sauce, mushrooms, garlic. But then, in a brilliant move, she augments it all with a big dollop of salted, European-style cultured butter to add both creaminess and acidity. There’s also a touch of monosodium glutamate (MSG) in the mix, which you can buy in Asian markets or other supermarkets sold under the name Accent Flavor Enhancer. It has a salty sweetness that deepens all the other flavors. But if you’d rather not use it, nutritional yeast also works well. If you can’t get mustard greens, substitute baby kale or spinach.
Portuguese-Style Steamed Mussels
Spaghetti With Swordfish
Swordfish, Bay Leaf And Orange Brochettes
Steamed Halibut With Rosemary Served With Parsnip Purée
In this case do not add ginger to the parsnip purée since the halibut steamed with rosemary will have its own flavoring.
Arroz de Verduras (Vegetable Rice)
Marinated Tofu Sandwich With Greens
You won’t use all of the marinade for this sandwich, so add more tofu to it for another meal.
Okra, Rice and Hominy Soup
Broiled Fish With Lemon Curry Butter
Broiled fish fillets topped with a little butter and a squirt of lemon is a quick, easy weeknight staple. But when the butter is spiked with plenty of garlic, a jolt of curry powder and piquant fresh ginger, then brightened with fresh herbs, it becomes a superb, company-worthy dish that still cooks in under 10 minutes flat. Use your favorite fish here; any mild fillet will allow the buttery sauce to shine.
Halibut Kebabs With Grilled Bread and Pancetta
Pan-Seared Halibut Steaks With Snap-Pea Sauce and Garnish
Greens and Mushroom Panini
For these greens-packed panini, try to find a bag of washed, stemmed greens. If you blanch your greens after bringing them home from the market, you can make the panini in no time.
Sea Scallop Sandwiches With Citrus Juices
Peas With Halibut
Giant Green Pie (Torta Pasqualina)
This savory pie, called torta pasqualina in Italy, is many times made for special occasions because the preparation is a bit fiddly. The finished product, though, is impressive to behold, and you’re sure to draw compliments from your dining companions. Traditional cooks use a strudel-like pastry, rolled out very thin into a large circle, for the pie. At least four layers are necessary, brushed with oil to achieve a flaky crust. (You can get good results with phyllo dough or ordinary pie dough.)
Stewed Greens With Tomatoes and Mint
This is inspired by a Greek recipe from the island of Corfu, from Diane Kochilas’s book “The Greek Vegetarian.” I love the way the greens and tomatoes are infused with mint. If you want to try more unusual greens from your farmers’ market, like amaranth or purslane, they will work in this dish.
Hominy and Squash Salad
Maya Citrus Salsa With Red Snapper
Xec (pronounced “shek”) is a sweet, sour, juicy citrus salsa from Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, and it makes a brilliant match with almost any kind of fish, cooked almost any kind of way. The combination here — orange, grapefruit, lemon — is not traditional to Mayan cooking, nor is it a mandate. Add lime if you have it, a bitter orange if you can find it. Don’t skip the minced habanero, though, which adds a bit of heat and yet more flavor. The fish starts on the stove for a few minutes, and is soon moved to the oven to finish cooking, for a total time of less than 10 minutes.
Veal Shanks With Preserved Lemon
Lavash Pizza With Greens, Baby Broccoli and Mushrooms
I used a mix of packaged sturdy greens and baby broccoli for this substantial pizza, but you could also use rapini.
