Hearts of Palm and Artichoke Cakes; Polow; Creamy Lima Beans; Creamy Lima Beans With Ancho Chile-Pepitas Pesto; Lima Bean Soup With Chard and Harissa; Lima Bean Soup With Turmeric and Green Herbs; Caldo Verde With Mushrooms; Dorie Greenspan's Cappuccino Madeleines; Tomato Galette With Savory Oat Crumble; Corn Cakes With Black Bean Spread; Reuben Pasties; Baked Garlicky Parmesan Chicken; Candied Orange Peel; Casolare’s Pizzelle Cannoli; Classic Cannoli Alla Siciliana; Ricotta Cream; Plainly Delicious Corn Bread; Tex Mex Frito Slab Pie;
 
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Hearts of Palm and Artichoke Cakes
These make a fun vegan substitute for crab cakes, using the flavors of Old Bay and a little seaweed.
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Polow
Pilaf-type dishes are found in many cultures; this simple and hearty version with lamb is widely made in the Uyghur region of China, according to Yimamu Maimati, owner of Queen Amannisa in Crystal City.
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Creamy Lima Beans
Dried lima beans, with their abundant starch, turn rich and creamy with long cooking; this recipe calls for the smaller limas often labeled baby lima beans or butterbeans because they cook a bit more quickly, but you can also use large limas.
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Creamy Lima Beans With Ancho Chile-Pepitas Pesto
This flexible dish, also built upon a pot of Creamy Lima Beans that you cook in advance (see related recipes), will provide a welcome amount of a flavorful, brick-red pesto to use in other ways, such as smearing on toast, stirring into warm grains and slathering on something off the grill.
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Lima Bean Soup With Chard and Harissa
This soup comes together quickly, built upon a base of long-cooked Creamy Lima Beans; see the related recipe.
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Lima Bean Soup With Turmeric and Green Herbs
This soup takes inspiration from herby Iranian soups and pilafs, some of which feature lima beans, among other legumes.
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Caldo Verde With Mushrooms
This version of the traditional Portuguese soup uses mushrooms coated in smoked paprika for meaty flavor, instead of the typical smoked sausage.
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Dorie Greenspan's Cappuccino Madeleines
Coffee and cinnamon provide grace notes in these famous shell-shaped tea cakes.
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Tomato Galette With Savory Oat Crumble
There's not much prep work to do for this simple and elegant free-form tart, thanks to the convenience of puff pastry.
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Corn Cakes With Black Bean Spread
These easy, pan-fried masa cakes fall somewhere between South American arepas and Mexican sopes.
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Reuben Pasties
This is one of the recipes that Washington area pasty pros Nicola Willis-Jones and Mike Burgess took to compete in the World Pasty Championships in Cornwall, England.
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Baked Garlicky Parmesan Chicken
Think of this as a less messy version of fried chicken.
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Candied Orange Peel
These sparkling sugared strips are a classic garnish for cannoli, but they have plenty of other uses, too.
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Casolare’s Pizzelle Cannoli
Jillian Fitch, one of the pastry chefs at Casolare, whisks the batter for these delicate cannoli shells by hand and then pours it through a sieve to eliminate any lumps.
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Classic Cannoli Alla Siciliana
Crisp cylinders of fried dough filled with fresh ricotta cream, cannoli are undoubtedly Sicily’s most famous contribution to the world of sweets.
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Ricotta Cream
Traditional cannoli filling contains only ricotta and sugar, and sometimes embellishments such as mini chocolate chips and chopped candied orange peel.
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Plainly Delicious Corn Bread
This simple corn bread is quick to mix up and comes fast to the table.
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Tex Mex Frito Slab Pie
This savory slab pie filled with familiar flavors hits the spot.
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