Sunday, May 15, 2022

What to Cook: Roasted potato salad, white bean primavera, Korean cheeseburgers and more

Flexible, shoulder-season recipes await.

What to Cook This Week

Good morning. It's shoulder season where I stay — chill mornings giving way to warm afternoons, a string of decent weather followed by cold and rain — and I find I'm cooking to bridge the divide. That has its pleasures.

For instance, take a look at this roasted potato salad with jalapeño-avocado dressing (above). It's picnic food that works just as well indoors, with a creamy dressing that marries the soft-crisp potatoes to soft white beans and crisp green ones. Summery, but with a sweater on. I'd like that with a platter of chicken thighs roasted in a hot oven or cooked over a grill, a kind of mash-up of barbecued chicken and crispy baked chicken. With bananas Foster for dessert!

As for the rest of the week …

Monday

Ginger two ways: soba noodles with ginger broth and a crunchy ginger topping. It's a simple, soothing recipe and a wonderful way to bring deliciousness to the table with minimum effort.

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Tuesday

Grilled merguez and onions with mint-lemon couscous is another shoulder-season winner. You can make it in the broiler or a very hot oven if you don't have, or don't want to use, a grill. (Make it with a different kind of spicy sausage if you can't find merguez. Regardless, it promises summer.)

Wednesday

This creamy bucatini with spring onions and mint is like May on a plate. The secret ingredient? Pistachios! So good.

Thursday

Pasta primavera was a highlight of the menu at Le Cirque in the late 1970s, and it became all the rage in America a few years later: a jumble of spring vegetables stirred into pasta as if French cuisine were in a fight with Italian. (It's pretty incredible if you cook it the Le Cirque way, though.) But tonight, I'm thinking, you could try white bean primavera, which does away with the pasta and uses legumes as the backbone of the dish.

Friday

And then you can head into the weekend with a spread of Korean cheeseburgers with sesame-cucumber pickles. The recipe calls for broiling the beef patties. But you could certainly grill them instead.

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Now, it's a far cry from pantry staples and fresh herbs, but I'm fascinated by Sam Knight's "The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold." (W. M. Akers reviewed it for The Times.)

It's the painter Jasper Johns's birthday. He's 92. Spend some time with his "Three Flags," from 1958.

For GQ, Madeleine Aggeler profiled Brian Johnson, the "influencer" known as the Liver King. You'll want to read that even if you have never heard of the Liver King.

Finally, Rusty Foster alerted me to this amazing video of a young Keanu Reeves, then a cub reporter for CBC, covering a teddy bear convention in 1984. Really! I'll be back on Monday.

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