Davide Luciano for The New York Times. Food stylist: Claudia Ficca. Prop stylist: Gozde Eker.
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 9, 2015
What to Cook This Week
 SAM SIFTON
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Good morning. I've got a big riff in The Times Magazine today about the joys of steamed hard-shell clams. Get a mess of clams at the market today and make my recipe (above) your dinner tonight. Tack on a loaf of good bread and a whole bunch of corn, and you won't be sorry. Jalapeño brown butter for the win!
But don't get just clams and corn. Sundays are a great day for planning your meals for the week to come, and to lay in supplies to make midweek cooking less of a chore.
For instance, for Monday night, you may consider David Tanis'srecipe for spicy eggplant salad with sesame oil. You could get the groceries for that today, make the dish this afternoon before cooking the clams, then let it sit in the refrigerator overnight.
Tuesday? Tacos? Again, with Kim Severson's recipe for tacos carnitas, you could do a lot of the prep today, then finish them on Tuesday evening after work.
On Wednesday, raid the pantry for Martha Rose Shulman's recipe for pasta with tuna and olives, then on Thursday night, spend 40 minutes roasting Melissa Clark's recipe for chicken thighs, pineapple and chiles doused in rum (use jalapeño if you can't find Scotch bonnet).
And on Friday, go ahead: order some takeout from your favorite purveyor. But knock out Kim's recipe for peach cobbler while you wait for the grub to arrive.
Other ideas for what to cook this week are on our site and apps. Save the recipes you like to your recipe box and get cooking. (Mark them "cooked" when you're done, and append a rating to them according to your view of their success.) And if you have any problems, don't hesitate to reach out for help. We're at cookingcare@nytimes.com, and on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram.
I'm not, though. I'm gearing up for some time spent away from computers and smartphones, recipes that need testing, meetings that drag. I'm going to spend the rest of today packing up gear and loads of ingredients that you can't find where I'm going, and then I'm going to head off into the darkness to drive a long way to a place where I can cook old favorites and think and just generally hang, entirely off the grid.
(To read: Tracy Daugherty's "The Last Love Song," an exhaustive biography of Joan Didion, and "Barbarian Days," by William Finnegan, a memoir of his surfing youth.)
But don't fret. Melissa will be your host during my absence. Please make her welcome. See you all in a couple of weeks. |
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