25 quick and blue Recipes

dried fruit compote with sambuca, this quick compote is a good choice for a winter dinner when you have little time to cook but want to make an impression. you can prepare it ahead (it s better made ahead), then spoon it over store-bought ice cream to create an original and memorable dessert. i also like it with blue cheese at the end of a meal, especially if there s a dessert wine on the table., dried peaches or nectarines, cut into 1/4-inch-wide strips, dried pears , cut into 1/4-inch-wide strips, dried apricots, cut into 1/4-inch-wide strips or quartered, golden raisins, dried cherries, water, sugar, cinnamon stick, lemon zest strips, fresh lemon juice, sambuca or other anise liqueur

water, uncooked quick-cooking barley, chopped mushrooms, chopped seeded tomato (1 large), chopped green onions, chopped ripe olives, drained, chopped fresh parsley, capers, dried basil, cider vinegar, olive oil, garlic clove, minced, salt, crumbled blue cheese

boneless beef short ribs, onions, cut into thin wedges, sliced carrot (2 medium), fennel bulb, cored and cut into thin wedges, diced tomatoes, undrained, dry red wine, quick-cooking tapioca, crushed, tomato paste, dried rosemary, crushed, salt, ground black pepper, garlic cloves, minced, water, coarse-ground yellow cornmeal, cold water, salt, crumbled gorgonzola , blue cheese or 1/3 cup shredded parmesan cheese

bone-in pork loin chops, vegetable oil, kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, granny smith apples, peeled and diced small, roquefort blue cheese, crumbled, jalapeno peppers , roasted, peeled, seeded, and diced small, sliced fresh chives, unsalted butter, shallot, sliced thin, garlic, sliced thin, green beans, ends trimmed and blanched quickly in boiling salted water, three-onion cherry jam , recipe follows, special equipment : toothpicks, vegetable oil, sweet yellow onion, sliced thin, red onion, diced small, shallots, sliced thin, kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste, red wine, tart cherry juice, red wine vinegar, stems thyme, stems rosemary, dry bay leaf, brown sugar, divided, honey