I seriously contemplated transforming today’s newsletter into Five Weekday Breakfasts; such is my love of breakfast, and also in honor of our latest big recipe collection, “24 Breakfast Recipes to Make You a Morning Person.” You’ll see, however, that I went with the status quo and picked dinner recipes, for you below. I did include…
If you ever order sopa, or soup, in Paraguay, don’t expect to be served a steaming bowl of broth. What you’ll get instead is a dense and cheesy hunk of cornbread. This bread, also known as sopa Paraguaya, is one of the country’s most popular dishes. Cornmeal, onion, cheese, milk and eggs are mixed together…
Restaurants have started gearing up for the Lunar New Year, with Year of the Dragon starting on Feb. 10 and New Year celebrations lasting about two weeks. Tolo, the chef Ron Yan’s restaurant which opened in early November, will offer a special $100 per person menu for parties of six to 12 that includes classics…
A skillet dinner of spicy beans is a speedy winter staple at my house. Whether cumin-scented and chili-adjacent, or zapped with red pepper flakes, loads of garlic and olive oil, it’s a weeknight go-to when work runs long and evenings are short. Is there anything easier or more satisfying on a cold January night? Actually,…
I didn’t grow up in a breakfast household — not in any traditional sense, anyway. It was both a requirement and an afterthought: a stop at the gas station for some packaged muffins or the Cuban bakery for a ham croqueta in a roll, often eaten in my dad’s car on the way to school.…
When Crystal Wilkinson wants to summon her kitchen ghosts, she retrieves a fuchsia-hued dress from her closet and hangs it in the doorway. The sturdy, double-hemmed garment invites her grandmother Christine, who sewed it by hand and wore it often before she died in 1994, to join her. The dress acts as “a literal and…
Good morning. If there’s a better scent in the world than Marcella Hazan’s Bolognese sauce (above), I’m unaware of it. Well, apart from fresh-baked apple pie, that is. And wooden boats, spit-roasted lamb, fresh-cut hay and Jamaican black cake. But Bolognese is pretty great: that milk-calmed tomato over a bass line of beef, with a…
Our affinity for sheet-pan dinners is downright Seussian. We like a sheet pan with salmon and potatoes. We like a sheet pan with feta and tomatoes. We like a sheet pan with chicken and bok choy. A sheet-pan bibimbap? That’s pure joy. Now Melissa Clark has a new recipe for sheet-pan turmeric chicken and crispy…
As winter set in this January, Sarah Kieffer recalled how it snowed for eight months last year in her hometown, Minneapolis. For weeks on end, the temperature dipped below minus 20. Surrounded by grayness, she baked blueberry muffins for the cheer of their bright pops of blue. “It’s like when the hobbits got to Mordor,…
Good morning. I made dinner for 50 last weekend, a giant feast of chicken bog, braised kale and rice, with cornbread and Henley Tuthill’s exceptional brown-butter Rice Krispies treats for dessert. I flew solo in the kitchen all day to bring it to fruition, doing the prep-cook shuffle: dicing vegetables, chicken and kielbasa, stirring roux,…