489 boule recipes

Swiss cheese salad with hard-boiled eggs tossed in a creamy sour cream dressing spiked with mustard, horseradish, and cumin. Served chilled on crisp lettuce.

Baked beef empanaditas filled with a picadillo of ground beef, raisins, green olives, hard-boiled egg, and cottage cheese in a golden egg-washed pastry.

Homemade kreplach with hand-rolled egg noodle dough folded into filled triangles and boiled in soup or salted water. A traditional Jewish dumpling made from scratch.

Old-fashioned raspberry fruit jellies, homemade candy made from fresh fruit juice boiled with sugar, set with gelatine and rolled in fine sugar. Soft, jewel-bright squares with a real fruit tang.

Toor dal with tadka: split pigeon peas boiled with turmeric, finished with a sizzling oil tempering of popped mustard seeds, cumin, onion, garlic, and chili. A quintessential South Indian vegan comfort dish over rice.

Mary's chili for wimps is a four-ingredient crockpot chili with ground beef, kidney beans, crushed tomatoes, and a seasoning packet. Dump it all in and walk away. Mild and easy.

Italian sausage with peppers and onions, boiled first then pan-fried golden brown, served on hot dog buns with mustard. A classic street fair sausage sandwich that's a staple at every Italian-American festival.

Baid masluq, a Middle Eastern spiced egg dish with sumac, marjoram, and olive oil. Hard-boiled eggs crushed with a fork and seasoned, served as a mezze appetizer.

Avocado chef salad piled with red leaf lettuce, watercress, mushrooms, hard-boiled eggs, Swiss cheese, julienned ham or turkey, cubed avocado, and a tangy vinaigrette. A protein-packed lunch in five minutes.

Classic beaver tails prepared the way old-time trappers did: blistered over hot coals, peeled, then roasted or boiled until tender. A traditional wild game preparation passed down through trapping cultures.

Boiled ham with potatoes and green beans cooked together in the same pot. A three-ingredient Southern one-pot dinner where the ham bone flavors everything as it simmers to falling-off-the-bone tender.

Sautéed shrimp cocktail with herbes de Provence, served with a golden turmeric yogurt-mustard dipping sauce. An upgraded party appetizer that ditches boiled shrimp and red sauce for something brighter.

Savory ground pork mixed with napa cabbage, leeks, and onion fills store-bought wrappers for juicy dumplings. Boil or steam, then dip in garlicky chili vinegar.

Roasting is one of the best cooking methods for optimizing root vegetables' flavor. Unlike boiling, where water dilutes some of the vegetable's flavor, roasting intensifies it.

Broccoli boiled with whole garlic cloves in red wine vinegar and olive oil, then chilled overnight. A cold marinated broccoli side dish with bold garlic flavor.

Bavarian veal rouladen stuffed with bacon and hard-boiled eggs, browned and simmered in a red wine gravy with tomato paste. A hearty German main dish.