Curried Coconut Soup with Lemongrass MAKES: 4 servings TIME: 40 minutes A Thai-style soup that becomes quite substantial when you add fried tofu (or try Crunchy Crumbled Tempeh). This soup is also wonderful with a couple of spoonfuls of Steamed Sticky Rice or a cup or...
Eggplant Salad with Miso MAKES: 4 servings TIME: About 30 minutes The typical way to prepare this traditional Japanese salad is to boil the eggplant, and I give directions for doing it that way. But if you have the time and energy, sautГ© the cubes in a little peanut...
Cucumber Salad with Soy and Ginger MAKES: 4 servings TIME: 30 minutes, largely unattended This is likely different from most cucumber salads you’ve ever tasted, but nondairy, easy, and delicious. 1 to 11/2 pounds (about 3 medium) cucumbers Salt and freshly ground...
Corn Salad MAKES: 4 servings TIME: 30 minutes Commercial corn salads and salsas are usually made with frozen corn. I’m not against frozen, but if corn is going to be the star, you gotta go fresh. Here you have three choices for preparing the corn: If it’s just...
Chinese Marinated Celery MAKES: 4 servings TIME: 15 minutes, plus 3 hours to marinate A little something to snack on before dinner, a great side dish, or a unique addition to a picnic spread. Ten times better than you could imagine. Try it with carrots too. 1 pound...
Cherry Tomato Salad with Soy Sauce MAKES: 4 servings TIME: 15 to 30 minutes The combination of soy sauce and tomatoes is fantastic, and because cherry and grape tomatoes are among the few supermarket fruits that are actually worth eating in winter, this dish can help...
Celery Remoulade MAKES: 4 to 6 servings TIME: 20 minutes The basis for this salad is the rГ©moulade dressing of tangy, mustardy, homemade mayonnaise, one that can make practically anything taste good. The classic French-bistro preparation is for celery root, but...
Cauliflower Salad with Olives and Bread Crumbs MAKES: 4 servings TIME: 45 minutes, including cooking the cauliflower Bread crumbs give this crunchy dish, which is common in southern Italy, enough body to stand on its own; I like to serve it family style, passing more...
Carrot Salad with Cumin MAKES: 4 servings TIME: 15 minutes Here’s a simple salad in a typically North African style that features the sweetness of fresh oranges offset nicely by the tang of ground cumin. You can also combine carrot and celeriac, jГcama, or...
Carrot or Celery Salad MAKES: 4 servings TIME: 20 minutes This is so easy it barely qualifies as a salad, yet celery and carrots are so readily overlooked, and this is so good. Consider using this ultra-basic lemon juice–olive oil dressing—just as you would a...
Broiled Tomato and Blue Cheese Salad MAKES: 4 servings TIME: About 30 minutes Though fresh plum tomatoes are acceptable even in the off-season, they’re decidedly improved by being broiled for a couple minutes. Add blue cheese (or virtually any other kind of grated...
Bread Soup Zuppa di Pane MAKES: 4 servings TIME: At least 1 hour Not literally bread soup but bean and vegetable soup with bread. When I first ate this in Tuscany, it was served with 2 condiments extra virgin olive oil and chopped onion and I've made it that way ever...