Bulgur gives this chili body, but other grains such as wheat, rye, kamut, spelt, hominy, and millet could be used.

Blackberry Mousse
The flavor of sweet-tart blackberries are complemented by the zing of orange juice and the depth of Cointreau in this creamy, lick-the-dish-worthy mousse.

Stuffed Quahogs
For a taste of Martha’s Vineyard away from the coast make these stuffed quahogs – hard shell clams – to enjoy with an evening drink before dinner.

Eggplant Pizzettes
Versatile eggplant does appetizer duty as a mini pizza crust covered with sweet and smoky barbecue sauce, balsamic vinegar, and sun-dried tomatoes.

Challah Bread Pudding with Carrot Crème Anglaise
Leftover challah is transformed into moist, tender, comforting bread pudding with a rather unique carrot crème anglaise.
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Campton Place Coffee Cake
This is a dense, yet extremely moist coffee cake made with layers of rich sour-cream cake and a filling of peaches mixed with cinnamon-cocoa sugar.

Almond Cake
Alice Waters’ almond cake recipe abides by her rules of “cook simply.” Yet you’d never know that from tasting it.
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Spinach and Bacon Salad with Caesar Dressing
A riff on the classic Caesar Salad, this salad calls for spinach, radicchio, and bacon. Croutons seasoned with cheese and garlic add crunch and flavor.
Escarole-Wrapped Monkfish in a Tomato-Olive Sauce
Monkfish fillets are wrapped in escarole leaves, which keeps the fillets moist. The monkfish packets are served up in bowls with a tomato-olive sauce on top. A simple weekday meal.

Milk Chocolate-Wafer and Chai-Ice Cream Dots
A frozen version of your favorite chai drink. It’s flavored with black tea, ginger, cardamom, cloves, and cinnamon. On top and bottom are discs of chocolate.

Spiced Lamb Burgers with Vietnamese Herb Salad
These lamb burgers are spiced with mint, cilantro, and onion, and lime. The burgers are pan-seared. Served with an herb salad, the lamb burgers are a hit.

Butter Pecan Ice Cream
This ice cream, with its distinctive American ingredient of Southern pecans, is loaded with rich buttery and vanilla flavors.

Green Spring Soup of Spinach, Lettuce, and Sorrel
Fresh greens aren’t just for salads. Sorrel, spinach and lettuce are pureed in vegetable stock for a flavorful soup that tastes better than it looks.

Baked Seafood Imperial
Baked seafood imperial, a riff on crab imperial, is shellfish tossed with cream and seasonings, breaded, and baked. Seafood imperial can be small or big.

Apricot-Pistachio-Lemon Coffee Cake
This cake is actually something of a misnomer, seeing as how nicely it plays with so many sippables beyond just coffee.
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Smoked-Salmon Pizza with Red Onion and Dill
Easy to make with pre-baked pizza crust, this smoked salmon and red onion pizza is a nod to the blini and equally tasty with a glass of champagne.
Grilled Apples with Roquefort Butter
Why turn off the grill after you’ve cooked the main meal? You’ll taste sweet, salty, and tart in these grilled apples basted with Roquefort butter.
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Curried Steamed Mussels
Steamed mussels go from standard to superlative when doused in a delicate curry-white wine broth spiked with shallots, garlic, lime, and cream.
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Shrimp Couscous Salad
Couscous cooks quickly and is easy to mix with a variety of flavors. Shrimp, oranges, tomatoes, raisins, and almonds make this a delicious picnic salad.
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Playing with Fire: Sweating it out with Barbecue Pit Master Ricky Parker
David travels south to apprentice to whole-hog barbecue pit master Ricky Parker and learns more than he ever imagined possible about the great pig.