Citrus

This recipe can be prepared in 45 minutes or less.

This recipe is an accompaniment for Buffalo Prime Rib with Orange Balsamic Glaze. Active time: 20 min Start to finish: 45 min

Can be prepared in 45 minutes or less but requires additional unattended time.

Active time: 30 min Start to finish: 1 hr

Can be prepared in 45 minutes or less.

Team the pancakes with sausages, and offer tea, coffee and fresh juices.

Brandysnaps are popular in Scotland, and lemon curd is a British fixture. Here is a double treat of lemon curd: Some goes into the ice cream; the rest is offered as a sauce.

In this classic vegetable preparation, the cooking liquid is used to make the velvety sauce. The dish is normally served at room temperature, but it's equally good warm.

This takeoff on key lime pie, made with lemons and a vanilla cookie crust, is deliciously tangy and refreshing. In the nineteenth century, fresh milk would not keep long without refrigeration, so Florida cooks used sweetened condensed milk in their key lime pies.

Gah Yan Tsui writes, via gourmet.com: "I recently enjoyed a delicious lunch at Aquavit in New York City. Marcus Samuelsson makes an incredible mussel and carrot soup. Would it be possible to acquire the recipe?" This soup tastes much better when made with fresh carrot juice. If you don't have a juicer, you can get some at your nearest natural foods store. Active time: 30 min Start to finish: 45 min

Arugula's bold flavor and the texture of curly frisée team up in this simple salad.

Pay de Limón At our cooking classes in Oaxaca, I guide our students through the markets, buying tastes of the thick cream (it's like milky butter with a cheesey flavor and unctuous texture), the perfumey, greenish-yellow key limes and exotic tropical fruit like guanabana, chirimoya, guava, black zapote and papaya. In order to offer more than a simple taste of these traditional foods after one trip to the market, I combined that incredible cream and lime into a simple pie for our class meal, serving it with an assortment of pureed fruits. Even with our American homemade cream (or crème fraîche) and less-tart hybrid Persian limes, the pie makes a lovely special-dinner finale.

Can be prepared in 45 minutes or less.

A composed salad that features all the bright and pretty colors of the season.

Active time: 30 min Start to finish: 30 min