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Steak Fajitas with Green Sauce
Recipe for Tex-Mex steak fajitas with green sauce, the spicy avocado cream sauce that is orginally from Ninfa's in Houston.
Indian Pudding
This dessert is rich, subtly spiced with cinnamon and ginger, and sweetened with molasses.
Step-by-Step Guacamole
This recipe is based on one in Rosa's New Mexican Table by Roberto Santibañez. Prepared in a traditional mortar and pestle, it's the best guacamole we've ever had. Continue...
The Captain's Chicken
This classic Russian dish known as captain's chicken turns an ordinary chicken into the very likeness of a captain, with tomato buttons, a hard-cooked egg head, and a carrot nose.
Salmon with Avocado Relish
This recipe is a version of one in Jeremiah Tower Cooks.
Tom's Vladivostok Potato Salad
This potato salad—flavored with crabmeat, salmon caviar, and garlic-laced mayonnaise—was created by Tom Hudgins when he lived in the Russian city of Vladivostok.
Chicken-and-Vegetable Borscht
There are as many versions of the Russian beet soup borscht as there are cooks. This one stands alone.
Complex and delicious, old-fashioned, home-brewed root beer is rich in spice and molasses.
This is a unique and tasty way to prepare carrots.
Lobster and Avocado Salad
This lobster and avocado salad recipe is from chef Jeremy Marshall of Aquagrill in New York City.
Open-Face Avocado and Goat Cheese Sandwiches
Tangy, buttery, smoky, and salty—this sandwich has it all.
This open-faced herring sandwich is traditional fare on the Russian table.
Oven-Roasted Plum Tomatoes
Slow-roasting tomatoes concentrates their sweetness and makes them the perfect addition to summertime salads, sandwiches, and pasta dishes.
Poached Shrimp and Sautéed Scallops
This Russian preparation is a delightful and simple dish of scallops and shrimp.
This tomato version of clam chowder, a variation of Manhattan-style, is based on one served at Champlin's in Narragansett, Rhode Island.