Sunday, April 10, 2022

What to Cook: Salmon soba noodles with ponzu, slow-cooker kofte, and more recipes.

Try a deluxe open-faced turkey sandwich and more recipes for the days ahead.

What to Cook This Week

Good morning. For a long time, my go-to diner order was an open-faced hot turkey sandwich with extra gravy and cranberry sauce, sometimes with mashed potatoes, often with fries. It was, to me, a pinnacle of luxury on the cheap: a savory layer cake of turkey and white bread beneath a glossy fondant of gravy.

Then either I got fancy or diner standards slipped, and the sandwich lost its allure for me. I moved on to cheeseburgers deluxe, the occasional grilled cheese with bacon.

Until I started making open-faced turkey sandwiches at home, that is: a balm of a meal, easily prepared, that brings delight and deliciousness every time. I use turkey thighs in my recipe (above), but you could just as easily use a breast or sautéed turkey cutlets. (Turkey cutlets won't provide the fond that the skin of an oven-roasted thigh or breast delivers, which means your gravy may be bland. Amp it up with reduced chicken stock and probably a little extra salt.)

Protein, fats and carbs. That's a great Sunday supper, American diner-style. As for the rest of the week …

Monday

I love this simple, easy, five-ingredient creamy miso pasta, which I generally top with shredded nori and occasionally with sautéed shrimp. It's incredible.

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Tuesday

Check out this slow-cooker kofte in tomato-lime broth, the spiced meatballs bound with yogurt and cooked with cherry tomatoes until everything gets jammy. The lime isn't a secret ingredient, of course. But it sure acts like one, subtly bringing the whole dish together.

Wednesday

Another comforting classic: baked chicken. Brown sugar- and spice-rubbed chicken legs slowly bake for an hour to develop crisp skin and pull-apart tender meat. Make mashed potatoes to go with, and maybe some sautéed asparagus.

Thursday

Fuul, also known as ful medames and foul mudammas, is a Somali-style fava bean stew, versions of which can be found in East and North Africa, and across the Middle East. This version smashes the canned beans into spiced and onion-flecked tomatoes. (Eaten with eggs, it's ideal for suhoor or iftar meals during Ramadan.)

Friday

And then you can end the week with salmon soba noodles. It's neat: You poach the salmon in a soup of napa cabbage and tofu, then spoon everything over the soba and top with grated daikon and a ponzu-scallion sauce. Nice!

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Now, it's nothing to do with turmeric or marbled cuts of meat, but "The Great Gatsby" was published on this day in 1925. Edwin Clark reviewed it for The Times soon after. (The novel eventually made for a really good play for Elevator Repair Service.)

For Grub Street, Jason Diamond wrote about the closing of Forlini's, a Manhattan red-sauce standard.

Here's Jason Farago on the Frédéric Bruly Bouabré exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. (And here's the exhibition itself.)

Finally, let's have Joe Jackson sing us off: "Sunday Papers," live in 1980. Enjoy that, and I'll be back on Monday.

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