No-Cook

Serve this tapenade on bruschetta or as a sandwich spread.

Can be prepared in 45 minutes or less.

This is a fabulous pudding-like dessert that's very easy to make.

Can be prepared in 45 minutes or less.

Old-fashioned green goddess dressing tastes as good today as it did back in the twenties, when it was invented. It's a delicious partner for mixed greens, chicken salad, cold poached salmon and sliced tomatoes.

Try these as appetizers, as a salad (on a bed of greens) or as a light dessert.

This recipe can be prepared in 45 minutes or less.

Low-fat buttermilk and nonfat yogurt provide the base in a refreshing, tangy soup.

If you have an extra minute, garnish the pie with chocolate shavings and cookie halves.

This recipe can be prepared in 45 minutes or less. We like to serve this feta on crackers as an hors d'oeuvre. Thinly sliced into single-serving portions, it also makes a lovely sweet-yet-savory dessert.

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

Celebrate with a bottle of Champagne.

Can be prepared in 45 minutes or less.

You may combine various types of melon, if you wish.

Preserved tuna, packed in extra-virgin olive oil, is paired with white beans in Tuscany, a speedy dish to assemble if you've got beans on hand. Canned beans work well and simplify this preparation — open a few cans and chop an onion. Quality tuna makes a big difference in the success of this dish. Leftover grilled or poached tuna can be used instead of canned, but it should be marinated in extra-virgin olive oil. All choices will work better than insipid tuna packed in water. Scallions can be used in the spring, red onions for the rest of the year. Torquato, my farmer and muse, suggested combining green beans with tuna during his glorious green-bean season, a fantastic variation.