Udon noodles in miso broth with stir-fried greens and shichimi pepper
Ingredients For the miso broth 5cm/2in piece kombu seaweed 1½ tsp dashi powder 2½cm/1in piece fresh ginger, peeled and grated 1 tbsp white miso paste pinch caster sugar 2 tbsp mirin 75g/2½oz tofu, cubed into 1cm/½in pieces For the stir-fried greens
Chicken Célestine with baby carrots, sugar snap peas and Parmentier potatoes
This creamy, boozy chicken dish with hints of orange is a French classic. Serve with herby roast spuds and seasonal veg. Ingredients For the chicken 1 tbsp olive oil 50g/2oz butter, for frying 150g/5oz plain flour salt and freshly ground black pepper 2 chicken breast suprêmes (about 350g/12oz in total) 100ml/3½fl oz orange liqueur, such as Grand Marnier 1 orange, zest and [...]
Asian-style Chicken Salad
This is the time of year when people who don’t do Community Supported Agriculture–aka a “farm share”–are laughing all the way to the Farmer’s Market or grocery store. It’s late June, you think to yourself. What does our family like to eat? You might choose a lovely quart of strawberries, a dinner’s worth of sugar snap peas, [...]
Cold Noodle Bowl
I really do love to cook, but sometimes I just hate it. Like now. I don’t feel like making dinner, and if it weren’t for the kids, I’d eat a bowl of granola and a handful of cherries every night after drinking many cold beers. Instead, we have granola for dinner only sometimes, and sometimes [...]
Gingery Napa Slaw
It’s one of those days when this column is unfolding in real time. Super-real time. Surreal time? Because even as I’m writing this, my children are sitting at the table, munching through giant bowls of this salad for lunch. It is hot-hot-hot today, and the salad is cool and crunchy, tart and sweet, and they [...]
Asian-Style Chicken Salad
Don’t feel hemmed in by the ingredients list here: If you’d prefer to cut up a rotisserie chicken or a package of 5-spice tofu instead of marinating and grilling the chicken breasts, please do. Likewise, use whatever greens you like (lettuce, say, or spinach) and any other veggies that appeal to you (I would have [...]
Enchilada Dip
Dinner’s a party when appetizers become the main course. This is a real Super Bowl kind of dip, reminiscent of that wickedly yummy canned-chili-and-melted-Velveeta one. You could, of course, make it with canned chili and Velveeta, which I secretly love — but can we serve our kids cheese that requires no refrigeration until it’s opened? [...]
White Bean Dip
Inexpensive, nearly instantaneous, and deliciously wholesome, White Bean Dip is a creamy, tasty alternative to hummus or pinto bean dips. As my 8-year-old son put it affectionately, “It’s really our main dip.” And dinner’s a party when appetizers become the main course. Note on Dippers: Serve the most wholesome dippable food you can get away [...]
White Bean Dip
Inexpensive, nearly instantaneous, and deliciously wholesome, White Bean Dip is a creamy, tasty alternative to hummus or pinto bean dips. As my 8-year-old son put it affectionately, “It’s really our main dip.” And dinner’s a party when appetizers become the main course. Note on Dippers: Serve the most wholesome dippable food you can get away [...]