Lemon
Recipes
A full course of Italian penicillin
Chicken soup's glamorous Italian cousin, with a spicy crumb and a cold lemon dollop.
Creamy lemon spaghetti with a Sichuan pepper buzz
Crème fraîche, miso and lemon make the sauce, and toasted Sichuan peppercorns go in twice so your lips hum.
Chicken sausage and lemon, baked as a lasagna
A lasagna that went on holiday and came back with a tan and a lemon habit.
Green pasta with a whole bunch of kale in the sauce
Twelve ounces of kale boiled soft, blended with lemon and Parmesan, and poured over pasta. It tastes nothing like a health measure.
Mark's hummus
Sharper than the hummus you know, and built to hold up under everything you pile on it.
The tomato pasta worth the airfare
Three kinds of tomato, a whisper of anchovy and enough lemon to keep it honest.
Lemon pesto spaghetti, all zest and no juice
The Amalfi trick: zest steeped into the pasta water and pounded into the pesto, toasted almonds underneath, not a drop of juice anywhere.
Lemon chicken in a hurry
A 1992 newspaper dish that still outruns your delivery app.
The Spaghett
A Miller High Life in a feather boa.
Oven shawarma, no rotisserie in sight
All the spice and crisp of the street cart, none of the six-foot spit.
The lemon-caper dressing that thinks it's a Caesar
Bright, briny and thin enough that every leaf gets some.
The potato salad that forgot the mayonnaise
Bright, herby and unbothered by a jar of anything beige.
Tahini ranch, hold the Hidden Valley
Ranch, reimagined in tahini and soft herbs. Not a bottle in sight.
Fish house punch, older than the republic
Rum, Cognac and a lemon-oil syrup in one bowl. Colonial Philadelphia could drink.
Garlic tahini, properly loosened
Nutty, garlicky and pourable. The sauce that makes vegetables interesting.
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Tomato sauce so simple you'll die
Marcella's three ingredients, one of which you bin, and a fourth she never sanctioned.
A ricotta pasta that begs to be messed with
Stir it in a bowl while the water boils, then fiddle until it tastes like yours.
Gnocchi baked with corn and a goat cheese heart
A whole round of goat cheese goes in last and collapses into the sauce.