The Week’s Best Food Finds

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  Recipe: Fried-Chicken Fried Rice With Pickled Scallions and Ham

  Adapted from Joshua Kulp and Christine Cikowski of Honey Butter Fried Chicken, Chicago

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  More Than One Way to Flip a Crêpe

  Feel free to buck tradition a little when making—and filling—the hearty buckwheat pancakes known as galettes. These recipes for a classic batter, a gooey gruyère filling and a version combining eggs, cheese and wilted greens are only the beginning.

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  Sylvan Mishima Brackett’s Recipe for Chicken and Egg Rice Bowl With Shishito Peppers

  This oyakodon from chef Sylvan Mishima Brackett of Rintaro in San Francisco presents a garnish of scorched shishito peppers on a soothing bowl of rice, chicken and scrambled egg.

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  How to Smoke Meat Without a Smoker

  You can get authentic wood-smoke flavor at your Memorial Day cookout without any fancy equipment. These recipes for oysters smoked on the half shell and cherry-smoked strip steaks call for nothing more than a standard kettle grill.

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  Recipe for a Summerized Strawberry-Rhubarb Crisp

  This classic dessert gets a little lighter with a crunchy polenta topping.

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  Hungry Young Men: The Chefs Rewriting the Rules of London Dining

  The chefs of London’s Young Turks collective and their contemporaries have come of age with restaurants that are redefining the city’s restaurant scene.

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  Classic Comfort-Food Recipes...Updated With Quinoa

  Nutty, with a distinctive pop, quinoa adds oomph to more than just grain bowls. A soothing chicken casserole or some cheesy sausage balls, anyone?

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  Where to Click for Healthy Meals, Fast

  Eating your vegetables is getting easier all the time, thanks to new apps, delivery services and meal planners. We found these three especially tasty.

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  A Visit to Novelist (and Restaurant Veteran) Stephanie Danler’s Kitchen

  Her debut novel focuses on front-of-house restaurant staff—the servers—of which she was one for years. Here, her roast lamb secret, the best desktop meal and an endlessly adaptable recipe for shallot vinaigrette.

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  A Remarkably Rich, Gluten-Free Brown Butter Cake

  Deliciously moist, nearly impossible to overbake and gluten-free, too, this hazelnut brown butter torte is too good—and simple—not to make.

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  What Jeremiah Tower Taught Me

  For the basics, go to culinary school. You learn a whole other set of lessons by cooking with a legend. This genius pork chop recipe from chef Jeremiah Tower gets most of the cooking out of the way in advance, so the cook can raise a glass and enjoy the meal come dinnertime.

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  The Week’s Best Food Finds

  A handsome, orange-hued cocktail set from Heath Ceramics; caramel-glazed, buttery shortbread cookies; and conservas from Barcelona’s beloved Espinaler taverna.

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  How to Build a Bolder Salad

  Those bitter greens all over the farmers’ market lately? These salad recipes balance their bite and draw out their complexity.

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  A Visit to Wood Sculptor Joshua Vogel’s Cottage Kitchen

  From his Catskills home, a sculptor of sought-after spoons and other wood objects talks top tools, contraband vanilla and the beauty of chores. Plus, a tapioca recipe to fill your own kitchen with aromas of spice.

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  How To Make Matzo Brei in a Matter of Minutes

  In homes all over the world, the Passover holiday brings with it this soothing scramble of crumbled matzo, eggs and plenty of butter. But why wait for a special occasion?

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  The 5 Best Muffuletta Sandwiches in New Orleans

  Just in time for New Orleans Jazz Fest, a guide to one of the city’s most celebrated dishes—a supersized Italian hero

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  Why Low-Sugar Sweets Needn’t Be an Oxymoron

  Life without dessert? Unthinkable. These recipes for coconut chiffon cake, strawberry cream cheese fool, ‘breakfast cookies’ and cherry-walnut granola deliver all the flavor but much less sugar. You won’t miss it.

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  Recipe for a Dream: Sweden’s Impossibly Airy Cookie

  A single magical, if rather pungent, ingredient makes Swedish drömmar cookies so delicate and light, they’re almost too good to be true.

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  Recipe for a Cake With Sunshine Baked In

  Chef Chris Bianco’s family recipe for lemony torta di riso is remarkably adaptable and fuss-free. This creamy rice cake makes the most of winter’s windfall of citrus.

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  Breakfast Bread Recipes That Deliver a True Taste of Home

  Two simply delicious apple breads—one an absolutely classic recipe, the other a savory, sliceable apple-bacon bread pudding—offer a taste of a time before celebrity chefs commandeered our cookbook shelves.

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  Whip Up Pancakes With Panache

  There’s no magic to these two recipes for fluffy, golden and genuinely impressive pancakes. But only you need to know that.

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  Muffin Recipes: Where Healthy Meets Happy

  Carbohydrate counting be damned. These muffins—one chock-full of moist fruit and nuts, the other a gluten-free buckwheat-pumpkin option amped up with warming spice and dark chocolate—are too good to pass up, and good for you, too.

  • Recipe:Golden Morning Muffins | Devil’s Night Muffins

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  Dan Kluger’s Recipe for Soy-Honey Chicken With Lemon Broccoli

  Here’s a recipe to keep in your back pocket for picky eaters and hectic weeknights: lip-smacking salty-sweet chicken legs with a side of lemony broccoli, a family favorite from the chef of Loring Place, in Manhattan.

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  Dan Kluger’s Recipe for Autumn Salad With Lemon-Chili Vinaigrette

  Crunchy raw kohlrabi, fennel and Granny Smith apple are only the beginning. Add a vinaigrette with chili kick and handfuls of herbs, plus farro and almonds, and you have a salad recipe that will brighten the chilly months.

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  Lenny Russo’s Recipe for Seared Trout With Trout-Roe Crème Fraîche

  In this recipe from Heartland Restaurant in St. Paul, Minn., simply seared trout served on a bed of spinach gets a dollop of decadence from crème fraîche dotted with briny roe.

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  Nina Compton’s Recipe for Spaghetti Vongole

  From Compère Lapin in New Orleans comes this light, bright and briny summer pasta topped with clams and a lemony parsley gremolata.

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  Sylvan Mishima Brackett’s Recipe for Crab With Salt-and-Vinegar Cucumbers

  Just two cool layers—sweet crab meat and salted cucumbers—make for a satisfying salad in this recipe from the chef-owner of Rintaro in San Francisco.

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  Bonnie Morales’s Recipe for Chilled Sorrel and Spinach Soup

  Tart, creamy and refreshing, this chilled green soup from chef Bonnie Morales of Kachka in Portland, Ore., makes the leap deliciously from spring to summer.

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  Ann Redding and Matt Danzer’s Recipe for Baked Potato Oscar

  From the chefs behind Mr. Donahue’s in Manhattan, this potato topped with crab, asparagus and hollandaise is an American classic due for a comeback.

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  Recipe for Salisbury Steak With Mushroom Gravy

  The chefs behind Mr. Donahue’s in Manhattan present an elevated take on the Salisbury steak—a flavorful blend of veal and beef, lighter than the old-school version, smothered in a flavorful mushroom béchamel.

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  Ann Redding and Matt Danzer’s Recipe for Cod Drenched in Lime-Chili Nam Prik

  A citrusy, sweet-savory sauce with a deep umami undertone makes this simple steam-roasted fish from the chefs behind New York’s Uncle Boons addictively delicious.

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  Recipe for a Spring-Vegetable Green Curry

  The chefs from Uncle Boons in Manhattan present a streamlined version of their Thai green curry. Fully loaded with asparagus, mushrooms, rice noodles and soft-boiled egg, it’s ready in 20 minutes flat.

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  Pan-Fried Soft-Shell Crab and Tart Spring Salad

  The soft-shell-crab season is brief, so seize the moment with this easy and inspired recipe from Eric Ziebold of Washington, D.C.’s Kinship.

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  Eric Ziebold’s Recipe for Old Bay Pork and Charred Jicama Salad

  Quick to make, this fresh green salad dotted with charred jicama and slices of juicy pork rubbed with Old Bay Seasoning packs in the flavor at every level.