Pescatarian
Maple Pecan Baked Apples
Try these for both dessert and breakfast. They're great with their pan juices or the Apple Custard Sauce.
Roasted Potatoes with Cream Cheese and Sun-Dried Tomato Filling
Can be prepared in 45 minutes or less.
Apricot-Blackberry Cobbler
Tender, biscuit-like dough is formed into a lattice atop this easy treat.
Caramelized Pear Charlottes with Persimmon
When selecting persimmons for the following recipe, be sure to get the acorn-shaped Hachiya variety and not the flatter, wider type called Fuyu. Look for very ripe specimens, which should feel quite soft and have glossy, translucent skin.
Cardamom Biscuits
This recipe originally accompanied Peach and Blueberry Shortcakes. . They are also great on their own with coffee or tea.
Spinach Salad with Tamarind Dressing and Pappadam Croutons
You may have had pappadams — light, crisp wafers made of lentil flour — at Indian restaurants. Here we use them as a stand-in for croutons.
Herbed Shrimp Salad with Watercress on Toasted Brioche
Can be prepared in 45 minutes or less.
Turn of the Century Minted Devil's Food Layer Cake
Turn-of-the-century cooks thought the original of this dense, chocolaty cake was so wickedly rich and sinfully delicious that it just had to be bad. So they named it after the devil himself. The first recipe for it appeared in 1905, and it's been around ever since. We've freshened up the devil with a little lift of mint.
Chocolate and Cinnamon Meringues
More confections than cookies, really, meringues accompany ice cream well and add a festive dimension to the table. They are best baked on a cool, dry day.
Spiced Water Spinach
Kalmi Shaak
Following Bengali tradition, Chitrita Banerji's mother presented this vegetable dish as a first course — delicate yet spicy, it gets the appetite going. But you could serve it as a side dish with the mung beans and the eggplant fritters. The original recipe called for mustard oil, but because it's so hard to find an FDA-approved brand — many bottles are labeled "for massage only," though Indians find that they're fine to cook with — we have substituted vegetable oil.
Potato and Pea Salad with Chive Aïoli
Aioli, the garlicky Provençal mayonnaise, is accented with chives and Dijon mustard.
Gingered Apple Slaw
Active time: 20 min Start to finish: 20 min
Blueberry Buckwheat Pancakes
Can be prepared in 45 minutes or less.
Potato Salad with Olives, Green Beans and Red Onion
Potato salad gets perked up with herbs, vegetables and a terrific dressing. Serve the salad warm or at room temperature.
Jícama and Red Onion Slaw
Can be prepared in 45 minutes or less.