You can also make a niçoise salad year-round, and I do: I at all times have canned tuna within the pantry and olives and anchovies within the fridge, and the grocery store closest to me shares cherry tomatoes and inexperienced beans even within the depths of January. It’s not consuming with the seasons, however it’s consuming with my instincts, and after I need punch and tang and heft — with good-for-me greens — it’s the one salad that’ll do.
However a summer season niçoise? That’s the nicest niçoise, particularly in these early days of the season when boiling potatoes and eggs doesn’t really feel masochistic. Now’s when these inexperienced beans and tomatoes begin to showcase, the egg yolks mirror the solar’s assertive shine and the tuna tastes in some way even higher and meatier. Melissa Clark’s attractive recipe ups the summeriness with a puckery lemon-anchovy French dressing and handfuls of basil. It’s not the one salad in our Summer time 100, however I’d argue that it’s the salad of our Summer time 100.
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You’ve seen our Summer time 100, proper? It’s our record of 100 recipes to prepare dinner (or, within the case of abdoogh khiar and others, not prepare dinner) now till at any time when pumpkins begin to seem. I’m beginning with the grilling recipes, notably Ali Slagle’s rooster with tomatoes and corn, which rests the fresh-off-the-grill rooster on the veggies to show these drippings right into a heat, savory French dressing. And I can’t resist harissa something, so Yossy Arefi’s grilled harissa shrimp is subsequent on the record, with loads of flatbread for gripping the shrimp as I slide them off the skewers.
The peaches haven’t fairly popped the place I dwell, so I’ll make Hana Asbrink’s chilly tofu salad with tomatoes and peaches with simply tomatoes for now. (The tomatoes aren’t but at their candy peak both, however the salty-sour, umami-rich dressing greater than makes up for that.) I additionally respect the flexibleness of this marinated feta with herbs and peppercorns from Alexa Weibel. It may be stirred into pasta, smooshed onto bread, tumbled over seared fish or roasted greens or, as one reader notes, folded into the morning’s scrambled eggs.
Summer time’s lengthy, lingering evenings name for dessert, and Jessie Sheehan’s four-ingredient Nutella brownies are simply the type of factor to throw collectively to eat underneath a late-setting solar. Just a little extra work — however extraordinarily price it — are these mango and sticky rice Popsicles from Samantha Seneviratne. However as she notes, you might skip making the sticky rice and as a substitute decide up a facet order out of your native Thai restaurant, placing you one step nearer to chilly, fruity, delightfully chewy summer season satisfaction.
