Danny Ghitis for The New York Times
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2015
Recipes for the Weekend, and News From Nigella
 SAM SIFTON
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Good morning. Stew chicken is a dish you'll find all over the Caribbean and its diaspora in America, as good for hungry children fresh off the playground as cube farmers exhausted from a week of toil in the content factories of our cities along the coasts. And making it is easy work on a Friday night off Rachel Wharton's terrific recipeadapted from the Brooklyn chef Rawlston Williams.
Rachel calls for the chicken to sit in its marinade for a couple of hours or overnight, but cheating is no sin. Even a quick 30-minute bath will yield great chicken surrounded by a densely flavored gravy of caramel, tomato paste, Worcestershire sauce, cloves and allspice, with a hint of fire from Scotch bonnet peppers. Go to!
Then tomorrow morning you can greet the weekend in luxury, with the saloonkeeper Elaine Kaufman's recipe for supersilky scrambled eggs brought to The Times by Alex Witchel back in 2004. Serve with toast and a swipe of marmalade, and you'll be living a life worth living. Skip lunch and read "The Crossing," Michael Connelly's new novel, instead.
For Saturday night dinner we'll be eating roast turkey, part of our endless rehearsal of the coming Thanksgiving feast – and if cooking a turkey will be new to you in late November, joining us for a run-through after the candy's been handed out to the kids in the Harley Quinn costumes would be no error. (We're working on a new fast-carving technique, to share with you in due time.)
But if not, may we suggest these awesome lamb burgers I picked up from Peter Meehan at Lucky Peach? Or Martha Rose Shulman'srecipe for peppers stuffed with farro and smoked cheese? You could try Melissa Clark's endlessly adaptable recipe for scallopine, which you can make with virtually any meat. Or Mark Bittman's recipe forricotta gnocchi – that'd be great on its own or as a rich accompaniment to Julia Moskin's ace recipe for a cast-iron steak.
Sunday's for smoothies: strawberry for us, to share with "Bonita Applebum (Pharell remix)." Follow it with a long run and a nap, maybe some leftovers for lunch. Bake this ridiculously simple and delicious recipe for Katharine Hepburn's brownies (above) in the afternoon, then round out the weekend with a bowl of Mario Batali's penne all'Arriabbiata.
Many other good things to cook this weekend are available onCooking. (Have you cooked Mark Bittman's recipe for pasta alla Norma yet?) Save the recipes you're interested in to your recipe box, where you can arrange them in collections (Easy Weekend Favorites! Things DH Will Eat!) at your leisure. You can leave notes on recipes that you've cooked and altered in some way for the better (or worse). And if you run into problems, don't hesitate to reach out for help. We are standing by: cookingcare@nytimes.com.
Finally, our pal and erstwhile colleague Nigella Lawson has a new cookbook out, "Simply Nigella," featuring "recipes to invigorate and inspire," according to the jacket copy. Does that make it sound like a diet book? It's not, as her recipe for chocolate-chip cookie dough potssurely suggests. We'll knock that down this weekend as well and let you know how it goes. (Pots of chocolate-chip cookie dough! #SquadGoals.) Have a great weekend. |
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