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Roasted Cauliflower and Chickpea Salad with Grapes and Turmeric-Date Vinaigrette
Cauliflower and chickpeas roasted hard, grapes added late so they split rather than dissolve, all tipped hot over spinach with a date vinaigrette thick enough to cling.
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Salmon with Pistachio, Preserved Lemon, and Herbs
A whole side of salmon under a thin pistachio and preserved lemon crust, glued down with a smear of Dijon.Newest first
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Peppadew Poppers with Feta, Olive, and Salted Honey
The brine in the jar is the best thing in this recipe and almost everyone pours it away.
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Sorghum-Glazed Duck Legs with Collard-Green Salsa Verde
Duck legs go low and slow until the joints swivel, then get lacquered with sorghum, cider vinegar, and mustard at high heat.
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Tomato, Zucchini, and Lentil Salad with Basil-Sunflower Pesto
Roasted zucchini and burst tomatoes folded through lentils with a cheeseless basil-sunflower pesto that stays sharp and green.
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Red Herring Strawberry–Tomato Granita with Basil Cream
A scarlet ice that reads as pure strawberry on the spoon and turns into something longer and stranger by the finish.
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Fireline Carrots with Harissa Butter and Orange Gremolata
Hard-roasted carrots, a harissa butter that never touches the oven, and an orange gremolata doing the rescue work at the end.
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Tuna and Cannellini Salad with Artichoke, Fennel, and Caper Lemon
Fresh tuna poached slowly in olive oil until it flakes in sheets, folded through fennel, artichokes, and tomatoes with a caper-lemon dressing sharp enough to keep up.
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Tempeh and Plum Kale Salad with Buckwheat and Tamari Ginger
Tempeh roasted until the edges go dark, plums that slump but hold, and kale worked by hand until it stops fighting.
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Crab-Cake Benedict with Brown-Butter Hollandaise and Celery-Lemon Relish
Lump crab cakes replace the English muffin under poached eggs, with nutty brown-butter hollandaise and a cold celery-lemon relish to keep the whole thing sharp.Black-Sesame Chicken Lollipops with Gochujang Honey
These are not lollipops and there is no bone handle. What there is, if you use a rack, is a crust that survives being glazed twice.