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Cheese Toasts With Mushrooms, Miso & Honey
When I crave sustenance that is speedy and delicious, these toasts come to the rescue. The washed-rind, creamy cheese is a lush foil to meaty mushrooms. I dreamed up the sweet-savory dressing thinking of a couple things: cheese and honey as a pairing, and how miso echoes the mushrooms’ umami. Who doesn’t love a good toast? It’s the perfect vehicle for all of it.
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.
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.
Fig Preserves+Buffalo Mozzarella Toast with Pink Peppercorn Salt
Cider-Braised Chicken with Apples, Onions & Thyme
Loaded Mushroom Galette
This galette nearly bursts at the seams with mushroomy goodness. Instead of piling raw mushrooms directly onto pastry, sautéing them in advance cooks away some of their water content and concentrates their flavors.
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.
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.
Savory French Toast
Savory French toast is definitely a thing. This twist on a favorite produces a nourishing, exceptional meal, ready in minutes. Plus, who doesn’t love breakfast-for-dinner?
Crispy Potatoes with Garlic Mustard Pesto
Garlic mustard outcompetes most native spring greens, so thank goodness it is as versatile as it is aggressive. This dish is like eating great French fries. Only, instead of frying, their crisp puffiness comes from steaming, then roasting.
Pickled Peaches
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.
Winter Bright Salad with Lemony Dress
Soothing Broth with Mushrooms & Wild Rice
This stock is excellent to enhance the flavor of anything that requires liquid: from rice to barley or quinoa, beans, stews, ragù, risotto, soups, and more.
Panzanella
Buttermilk Puff Pastry Chicken Pot Pie
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.
