Good morning. I write from Martha’s Vineyard, in Massachusetts, where I’m with my colleague Carolyn Ryan to visit with colleagues at the Vineyard Gazette and address friends new and old at the Martha’s Vineyard Wine and Food Festival. (Missed the Derby, sadly, but was excited to learn they’re moving toward catch-and-release competition.) It’s beautiful here, typing with a dog at my feet.
Of course I’m thinking about food — the sandwich I’ll eat at 7A in Tisbury, of course, and the oysters I’ll scarf at Beach Road in Vineyard Haven, and all the dinners I’ll make for my family when I get home. Here’s what I think you should cook this week:
Tonight, if you’re not still looking around for things to cook for Diwali, you should really try Tejal Rao’s supermarket-elegant recipe for cannellini-bean beurre blanc (above), which she learned from the British writer Jack Monroe’s “Tin Can Cook” and wrote about in The Times this week. The recipe, which calls for canned beans and just a little pasta, manages at once to be basic and deluxe, the sort of recipe, Tejal writes, that you make once “and immediately add to your repertoire: straightforward, inexpensive and comforting.” It’s awesome.
For Monday’s dinner, these roasted sweet potatoes with smoked paprika, which I like on a bed of greens, drizzled with yogurt and lime juice.
Tuesday, you could try this braised chicken with rosemary, chickpeas and salted lemon, from Yewande Komolafe.
On Wednesday, how about Susan Spungen’s new recipe for raw and roasted brussels sprouts salad with a lemony dressing and pecorino? Seems fussy. Is not. It’s texture city.
Thursday is Halloween, and please don’t be a dope with your costume. (As usual, I’ll be dressed up as William Schmidt.) Make some French onion mac and cheese, and eat it on the stoop or porch, in the front yard or, I suppose, crouched in the hallway of your apartment building, handing out the only proper Halloween candies there are.
Then on Friday, end your week with grace and deliciousness: sea scallops with brown butter, capers and lemon. Eat it in candlelight, and then take to bed to read: “Still Here,” Alexandra Jacobs’s biography of Elaine Stritch, please.
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Now, a little housekeeping. On Friday in this space I wrote that Diwali gets underway today. Though festivities started on Friday, people all over the world celebrate the holiday today. Apologies.
It’s a long field goal kick from the gas-fired grill and clam-shucking station, but you really have to read Lindsay Zoladz on the 40th anniversary of Fleetwood Mac’s “Tusk,” in The Ringer.
Some who haunted downtown Manhattan when the gang from NYPress was documenting the scene from the back of Milano’s will remember the hipster literary magazine Between C & D. Catherine Texier, one of its editors, has a Longreads feature up this month: “I’m 72: So What?”
Finally, excellent dog content on Reddit. You’re welcome. See you tomorrow.