From Vegetables: The Most Authoritative Guide to Buying, Preparing, and Cooking, with More Than 300 Recipes, by James Peterson.
Copyright 1996 Lynne Rossetto Kasper
Couscous is a pasta by way of North Africa and should be easy to find in the grocery. (Boxes should come with both stovetop and microwave cooking instructions.) This salad is good for when you just can't face another typical pasta salad at your block party, church picnic or family reunion. And this is just one version—feel free to change the herbs or to add any great vegetables you see at the market that weekend.
Copyright 2002, Lynne Rossetto Kasper
Slightly reminiscent of paella, this aromatic chicken and rice is a favorite meal for Arlene DeMelo, a Portuguese home cook in Hyannis, Massachusetts. Because the chicken slowly absorbs its seasonings for 8 hours, you'll need to think ahead.
All over southern Italy country people eat bowls of nutty-tasting whole-wheat kernels with creamy ricotta, sweet honey and dried fruit to celebrate the feast of Santa Lucia on December 13 and the planting of the new wheat.
From Wild About Game by Janie Hibler.
Copyright 1996 From "Savoring Spices and Herbs" By Julie Sahni, Published by William Morrow and Company, Inc., New York
Ingredients
This started out as a Mexican budin, a casserole so dense with tortillas, sour cream, and cheese that in the end it was simply too rich, even for me. But as I love the flavors of the various elements, I put them into these lighter corn crêpes and, if supper is very informal, I let each person fill his or her own. Otherwise, I fill them and heat them in a skillet or the oven. For a vegan version, use corn tortillas in place of the crêpes and nondairy cheeses.