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Cumin, Coriander & Fennel-Rubbed Salmon with Ruby Radicchio Salad
Tomato Cucumber Salad with Fried Capers
As the weeks pass and my garden vegetables ripen, they prompt daydreams of what I’ll make when they reach their full, saturated glory. There is nothing better than cutting peak-ripe produce from their stems and making a dish with the fresh harvest.
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
Zippy Vietnamese-Inspired Beef Salad
Pulling from Vietnamese cuisine, this recipe gets an umami hit from fish sauce, sherry vinegar, and lime juice tossed through a mix of crunchy and tender veg, finished with a scatter of fresh herbs.
Winter Bright Salad with Lemony Dress
Panzanella
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.
Chioggia & Roasted Fennel Salad with Pecan Whipped Ricotta
This colorful cooked and raw salad is a bridge between warm and cooler weather. It marries sweet and juicy roasted fennel with bright, crunchy shaved raw beets. Pecan-infused ricotta is the perfect foil to all. This makes a great vegetarian main course, or an appetizer to share.
Steak Salad With Garlic-Anchovy Vinaigrette
Springtime food is best when it can be thrown together in a flash, and bring with it uplifting sustenance to get us back to the day’s tasks. This juicy, flavor-packed beef salad comes together in a jiffy.
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.
