5 alfred Recipes

egg-free pasta, dairy-free cream cheese (like tofutti better than cream cheese), shallots or 1/4 cup other mild onion, sliced thinly, garlic cloves, smashed, olive oil, water, salt, black pepper, nutmeg

baked potatoes, chilled with skins on, butter, salt, to your taste, chopped fresh dill, chopped fresh parsley

japanese or cello cucumber , fluted and thinly sliced in 1/8-inch rounds, sushi grade yellowfin tuna, blue fin or big eye tuna, cut into 1/4-inch dice, vinaigrette , recipe follows, sliced scallions, white part only, shiso leaves , cut into chiffonade, coarse salt, freshly ground white pepper, herb salad , recipe follows, croutons , recipe follows, special equipment : 1 ring mold, 3 inches in diameter, 1 1/2 inches deep

blood orange juice or 2 tbsp tangerine juice, fresh lime juice, fresh lemon juice, extra virgin olive oil, grapeseed oil, coarse salt, fresh ground white pepper, tangerines, blood oranges, red onion, loosely packed frisee (curly endive), loosely packed watercress, coarse salt, fresh ground white pepper