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Drunken Spot Prawns
This sea-sweet dish is your new favorite ceviche.
Miso Butter Salmon + Custardy Scrambled Eggs
Red Curry Salmon Chowder
Divine Shrimp Salad
Too often, shrimp salad is gloppy with mayonnaise, masking the verve shrimp deserve appreciation for. Their flavor is mild, we can all agree. But with some gentle handling and choice aromatics, shrimp impart a wonderful texture, tender enough to make you swoon. The secret is to let the shrimp steep only long enough for their outsides to become opaque, then transfer them to a shallow bowl to cool—easy-peasy and impossible to overcook.
Tonnato Toast with Colorful Radishes
A quick dish made with wonderfully punchy tonnato inches the spirit of al fresco dining just a little bit closer. Add a rich slather to toast. Pile the radishes as abundantly as you like. Juicy, salty, crunchy celebration, for spring is just around the corner.
Crispy Soft-Shell Crabs with Corn & Avocado
Cumin, Coriander & Fennel-Rubbed Salmon with Ruby Radicchio Salad
Asparagus & Fava Beans with Tonnato
As spring gets closer each day, I’m filled with a giddy lightness, very much looking forward to the brown landscape transforming into one filled with buds and tenderest leaves. This much-awaited season makes for easy eating, where only a little cooking is needed to make foods to shine. Tonnato sauce, which I rave all about here, makes an ideal pairing for seasonal stars fava beans and tender asparagus spears.
Smoked Salmon+Escarole Salad with Meyer Lemon-Garlic Vinaigrette & Crunchy Dukkah
Quick Shrimp Scampi
Shrimp scampi is a classic for great reason. Making it is a cinch (it's ready in just a few minutes), the ingredient list is easy-peasy, and scampi delivers big on flavor: it is buttery with a lingering spice, herbaceous, and juicy.
Crème Fraîche Pasta with Trout Roe
When I don’t have much time but I want to eat something that feels special, I often turn to crème fraîche or trout roe. They are small luxuries that pay off big. Here, I use both to make a pasta dish that is beautiful, extremely tasty, and ready in a jiff.
Farmers Market Bagel & Lox
Garlicky Paprika Shrimp & Avocado Salsa Tacos
Cold Noodle Salad
This is more a guide than a recipe, and offers real refreshment on hot days. The extra beauty of this dish is that the elements can all be prepared in advance, then thrown together last-minute. Dress the pasta and keep it room temperature if you make the elements in advance.
Seared Scallops and Creamy Saffron Beans
Beans are often thought of as humble, sustenance food. When cooked into a tender stew – here infused with saffron – they and their liquor transform into a thing utterly divine.
Grownup Tuna Noodle Casserole
This beloved (or thwarted, depending on your history) household staple receives a major upgrade.
Cured Sockeye Salmon Niçoise
This is a way to bring together summer’s bounty in a rainbow salad to dazzle all the senses.
Salmon, Peas & Potato Salad
Summertime swelter necessitates little or no cooking. Enter this not-a-lick of mayo zippy potato salad, my favorite kind. After only a brief simmer, buttery potatoes meld with juicy peas, punchy grain mustard and other aromatics, for a bright pick-me-up dish whose colors entice, then deliver big on taste.
