Low-fat cheesy potatoes are the classic hash brown casserole, lightened up with reduced-fat soup, cheddar, and sour cream. Creamy, comforting, and crowned with a crunchy crushed-cereal topping.
Refined split pea soup with fresh sorrel, ham hock, lemon, and cream, puréed silky smooth and strained. Serve it piping hot in winter or well chilled as an elegant summer starter.
Southwestern sweet potato and corn soup with green chile, cumin, and red bell pepper, half-pureed for a thick and creamy texture. A naturally vegan, low-fat soup with bold Southwestern spice.
Spicy black bean salad dressed with lime, champagne vinegar, jalapeños, cayenne, and fresh mint. A make-ahead vegan side with bright heat from dried beans cooked from scratch.
To bring out the natural sweetness of ham and to keep it juicy during grilling, we glazed ham steaks with orange juice and tequila.
Italian-style stuffing with crispy pancetta, lentils, arborio rice, and fresh sage simmered in broth. Built for breast of veal but works beautifully in chicken, pork, or as a hearty side dish.
Moist, light and delicious plum bread is good for breakfast, or can be a light and refreshing dessert after the main course.
A traditional Middle Eastern dish containing bulgur wheat and fresh herbs. Serve with Toasted Pita Chips (see separate recipe) and raw vegetables.
This very quick and easy sidedish can be made very quickly. A great compliment to the grilled salmon I had with it.
Hearty vegetable soup with rice, tomatoes, carrots, celery, and a splash of hot sauce simmered in chicken broth. A comforting one-pot soup ready in about an hour from scratch.
Persimmon pudding cake, a moist autumn loaf with ripe persimmons, brandy, warm spices, raisins, and walnuts. Served with a brandy ricotta topping for fall holiday gatherings.
Potato chowder with diced potatoes, grated carrot, and onion simmered in chicken broth, then finished with a creamy skim milk base thickened by a flour slurry. A lighter chowder with all the comfort and none of the heaviness.
Canadian-style cheese soup with diced carrots, celery, and onion in a creamy Velveeta and half-and-half base thickened with a roux. A pub-style cold-weather classic.
Pico de gallo, the classic Mexican rooster's beak salsa, made with diced tomato, white onion, cilantro, serrano chiles, lime, and salt. Crisp, fresh, never mushy. The 10-minute taqueria staple.
Country rigatoni tosses pasta with cannellini bean broth, chicken, Italian sausage, escarole, broccoli, and Parmesan. A rustic Tuscan-style pasta with soul-warming depth.
Black bean soup with cumin, slow-simmered with onion, garlic, carrots, and celery then pureed smooth. Garnished with chopped egg and scallions.
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