Grant Cornett for The New York Times. Food stylist: Maggie Ruggiero. Prop stylist: Rebecca Bartoshesky.
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2016
Recipes for the Weekend
 SAM SIFTON
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Good morning. Let's start the weekend at the bookstore, because the weather's conducive to reading on the couch while a huge pot of bone broth simmers on the stove. Over at T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Bret Easton Ellis has delivered a list of his 10 Favorite Books, a catalog that belies his role as one of the great angry transgressives of American letters. Maybe this is your time to crack open "Middlemarch" at last (or again), or to read "The Great Gatsby" in one sitting.
That's one idea, anyway. Another is to read my column in The Times Magazine this week, on the Los Angeles cool-kid chef and restaurateur Travis Lett, whose "Gjelina: Cooking From Venice, California," is currently one of our favorite cookbooks. An awesome recipe for roasted yams, honey, Espelette pepper and lime yogurt(above) accompanies the article. And while they make a terrific side dish for a roast chicken, they are as good, maybe even better, as a platter to accompany a salad of winter greens, cheese and nuts. Either way, that could be your Saturday dinner this week, right there.
Another good thing to cook this weekend: paella. You don't need to make it outside, not in this weather (though you could). Florence Fabricant has an ace recipe for a stovetop version that comes together relatively quickly and results in a fine Saturday night one-pan meal.
You could make cod cakes. You might make Julia Moskin's whole-roasted cauliflower with an almond-herb sauce. If you cook Melissa Clark's recipe for Irish soda-bread buns, I'd put down long money you'll be delighted; they're sublime.
Are there children about, in your home? Maybe make my adaptation of Bobby Flay's recipe for double-chocolate pancakes for breakfast tomorrow or Sunday. If not, sleep in, then make an early lunch out of Mark Bittman's recipe for cardamom-scented oatmeal pancakes, with apricots and almonds.
Burgers are good to cook on a weekend. Try the Lee Brothers' recipe for shrimp burgers if you're sick of beef, or the McBitty's Bean Burgers if you don't eat it at all. Cider-cured pork chops would be good, too. So would a coconut layer cake.
Not for you? Cooking is filled with all sorts of other delicious ideas. Why, here is a recipe for teff polenta with toasted hazelnut oil!
Whatever you cook later, do take some time to explore the Internet today. We're in love with The Times's interactive project onunpublished black history, which comes out of our vast photo morgue. And we were delighted to find David Draper's video primer in Field & Stream, on how to restore a really, really messed up old cast-iron pot.
You should read Ian Urbina on how the tiny island nation of Palau is responding to the scourge of illegal fishing in its waters. And always listen to Bad Brains, here live in Florida, 1987.
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