One of my favorite Chanukah recipes.

This is a great warm weather salad.  Serve it with crusty french bread and a good red wine.

There are a lot of steps to this salad, but I like to do most of it the night before.  It makes for easier assembly and more flavor when the vegetables can marinate overnight.

This salad is a great starter course to a big dinner or a stand alone light lunch, just be sure to check out the morels before roasting them to make sure they are clean.

Make sure the tuna is as fresh as you can lay your hand on. It should be cut from the center of the loin and be in one solid piece devoid of connective tissue and skin.

Making your own vinaigrette is way better than anything you can get in the store, and you can take all the credit as you guests chow down.

This is a great starter salad or can be a main dish, be sure to whip up a batch of my Brown-Sugar Bacon Vinaigrette.

Sweet, sour, salty, spicy!! Almost all taste profiles in one dish. 

This will serve 4-6 people as a first course, or it can make 24-30 canapes.

When tomatoes are flooding into markets, I get hungry. It’s a big honkin’ food-writing cliché to wax poetic and drone on and on about the glories of sliced, fresh tomatoes on thin toast with mayonnaise, or tomatoes from the garden drizzled with olive oil, or tomatoes eaten out-of-hand like an apple . . . but they are all true.

I had a version of the dish below (roasted cherry tomatoes with lobster salad and tarragon) at one of Gordon Ramsay’s restaurants a few months ago, and I was reminded to dig out my fave tomato salad, incorporating small roasted tomatoes still on the vine. The idea is to roast them slowly enough so that they shrivel and intensify with flavor, but stay on the stems. It is a beautiful-looking dish, and the oven does all the work for you.

I use Sweet 100 or cherry tomatoes . . . Yellow, red, and gold ones make a great plate, but you’ll want some of them to be ‘stem on.’ If you are using stem-on tomatoes, it’s hard to measure pints, so just use what you would feel comfy eating.