Sometimes the best way to change the way you cook is to not cook at all. It’s a trick we use for this impromptu chicken salad from our book “COOKish,” which limits recipes to just six ingredients without sacrificing flavour. For this recipe, we skip the mayonnaise and instead use another shortcut that packs complex flavour into one ingredient — …
As summer sets in, warm bowls of chewy, satisfying ramen and soba can take a refreshing turn to become the center of refreshingly chilled salads such as hiyashi chuka. The Japanese dish typically is served as a cone of chilled ramen noodles covered with julienned strips of several ingredients, including cucumber, ham, omelet, ginger and carrot. We took loose inspiration …