Sunday, February 13, 2022

What to Cook This Week

It's time for Super Bowl recipes, whether you watch the game or not: carne asada, nachos and more.

What to Cook This Week

Good morning. It's Super Bowl Sunday for a lot of Americans, even for those who have no intention of watching the Rams play the Bengals this evening. It's a chance to make a carne asada that tastes of Los Angeles or Cincinnati chili, to devour chicken wings, nachos, guacamole and queso in advance of the advertising, the violence or just a quiet night reading Sheila Heti on the couch. I hope you'll join us. We have plenty of recipes.

Among them: this terrific new recipe for a classic Italian sub (above) with dressed onions, meats and cheeses, pickled peppers and shredded lettuce on a hoagie roll. I'm not generally snobby about ingredients, but I will say that a lot depends on the choice of roll. Secure a good one for sandwich excellence. No one wants a floppy sub!

You could also make Texas-style chili. Buffalo chicken dip. Spicy tofu sliders. Whichever, you should embrace the notion of tailgating in midwinter today, no matter where you stand on the business of organized sports. The Super Bowl is a secular holiday right up there with Thanksgiving, worth celebrating just because.

As for the rest of the week …

Monday

It's Valentine's Day, so you may want to make steak Diane for two, but I like Yasmin Fahr's new recipe for pasta with feta and green olives, briny and slick. It comes together quickly, with big, big flavor, and is just the thing for nights when time is short because you forgot to buy flowers for your squeeze and had to backtrack 40 minutes to secure some.

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Tuesday

Here's a no-recipe recipe: roasted fish with ginger, scallions and soy. "My husband eats food, but doesn't love food, if you know what I mean," one subscriber noted beneath the instructions. "He LOVED this. I used seasoned rice vinegar, sesame oil, olive oil, ginger and soy sauce. And he couldn't stop talking about how good it was. Definitely going into the regular rotation!"

Wednesday

Midweek is a perfect time to try this soothing, not-at-all-spicy white soondubu jjigae, the Korean mild tofu stew, with sweet radishes and savory mushrooms. I like it with kimchi and rice on the side.

Thursday

Here's a chicken soup with pastina that'll delight both children and those who sometimes like to eat like children.

Friday

And then on Friday, you can make like it's the weekend already with this fantastic slow-cooker Sunday sauce (or stovetop Sunday sauce): pork shoulder, Italian sausage and meatballs, cooked in a heady red-wine and tomato gravy. Serve a Lucali salad over the leftovers, please!

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Now, it's a far cry from chocolate chip cookies and oven-fried chicken, but Rebecca Mead has a fascinating article in The New Yorker recounting her move back to England, and the Multicultural London English her son is learning to speak there.

You might want to read Olivia Milloway in The Bitter Southerner, on the green burial movement.

And you'll definitely want to see this @devourpower photograph on Instagram.

Finally, here's Depeche Mode with "Stripped" on the "Wogan" show on BBC, 1986. A different time! I'll be back on Monday.

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