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Extravagant Eggs For When You Have No Time
I spend many days harvesting the wild greens which grow in abundance at the edges of my gardens. Both chickweed and hairy bittercress are common early spring characters: the bittercress is similar in punch to arugula, whereas chickweed is akin to pea shoots, with a tender texture.
Drunken Spot Prawns
This sea-sweet dish is your new favorite ceviche.
Miso Butter Salmon + Custardy Scrambled Eggs
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
Grilled Corn with Garlicky Butter and Herbs
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.
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.
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.
Pickled Peaches
Panzanella
Quinoa Bowl with Jammy Eggs+Pickled Shiso
A warming pot of grains or beans makes for the often needed set-it-and-forget-it mode, allowing me to focus on the day’s numerous other tasks. For that reason, as well as the fact that they’re hearty and healthy, grain and legume bowls are solid go-tos at the cottage. In this version I’ve used quinoa, but you could just as readily use brown rice or barley, or choose lentils or chickpeas.
Steak Tartare with Potato Chips
With the right approach, steak tartare is a treat (and so easy) to make in your own kitchen. For this preparation use the freshest grass-fed filet mignon you can get your hands on.
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.
Deluxe Avocado Toast
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.
