EGN NEWS DESK
Good morning. The canines ran for miles within the snow, after which snoozed deeply behind the truck whereas we ate pizza at Lucia in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, whereas we drove to Villabate for pastry afterward, after we obtained house and napped ourselves. It was an ideal weekend day for them, for me, for the household.
For dinner that evening and your dinner this weekend (have pizza and cannoli for lunch!): Eric Kim’s gochujang potato stew (above). The dish is as good a use of child potatoes as has ever been devised, with mountains of kale and cannellini beans in a fiery, candy, savory broth that takes properly to a dollop of bitter cream while you serve the dish alongside rice and, in case you like, a bowl of kimchi.
My desires that evening had been as vivid as actuality, and I traveled by time. I hope the identical for you.
Featured Recipe
Gochujang Potato Stew
View Recipe →
These deep winter weekends are glorious for challenge cooking, too. I like to recommend a run on the British chef Fergus Henderson’s trotter gear, a secret ingredient so as to add to soups and stews, to Guinness pie or steak and kidney pudding, to any dish you suppose would profit from the really lip-smacking unctuousness of the gear itself, a sort of Madeira-spiked jelly of flesh and fats and meat. (Nestle some hen thighs into a few cups of it, then salt them properly and roast in a sizzling oven till they’re crisp — you’ll see!) Freeze your ends in two-cup containers and also you’ll be set for months.
You might resuscitate your sourdough starter, that outdated pandemic buddy. If it’s not but energetic sufficient for English muffins or pizza dough, it’ll actually throw off sufficient taste for an in a single day potash that’ll yield distinctive buttermilk waffles or pancakes the subsequent morning.
You might make yogurt, and I hope you do. Also: sizzling sauce, XO sauce and hollandaise sauce to drizzle over seared scallops or steamed broccoli. And this may be a positive weekend to fry hen, to bake a lane cake or to assemble a lasagna.
But if not, if it’s all you are able to do simply to learn newsletters and dream of deliciousness, there’s at all times immediate ramen to physician up and luxuriate in — as positive a recipe and culinary observe as constructing a mushroom Bourguignon.
There are hundreds and hundreds of different recipes appropriate for weekend preparation awaiting you on New York Times Cooking. Yes, you want a subscription to learn them. Subscriptions make this entire enterprise doable. If you haven’t achieved so already, would you please take into account subscribing right this moment? Thanks.
Write for assist if you end up caught crossways with our expertise. We’re at [email protected] and somebody will get again to you. Or in case you’d like to present us an apple or a worm, write to me. I’m at [email protected]. I can’t reply to each letter I get. But I learn each one.
Now, it’s a substantial distance from something to do with leeks or mussels, however I’ve been placing in my display time recently. In between tales of extrajudicial killings (the wonderful “Sicario,” from 2015, and the not-great “American Assassin,” from 2017), I took in Robert Altman’s improbable telling of Raymond Chandler’s “The Long Goodbye,” launched in 1973. It’s a satirical noir, in his fingers, starring a improbable Elliott Gould, with terrific appearances by Sterling Hayden, Nina van Pallandt, Mark Rydell, Jim Bouton (of “Ball Four” fame) and an uncredited Arnold Schwarzenegger. Watch!
Staying with motion pictures a second, do discover Wesley Morris’s take a look at the very best performances of 2023, in The New York Times Magazine. From “Best Acting Above the Nose” (Paul Giamatti in “The Holdovers”) to “Best Theft of a Movie” (Ryan Gosling in “Barbie”), he’s obtained all of them.
I favored Louisa Thomas in The New Yorker, on the swagger of Iowa’s Caitlin Clark, faculty basketball’s greatest star.
Finally, right here’s some new Vampire Weekend on your weekend: “Capricorn.” “Too outdated for dyin’ younger, too younger to dwell alone.” Cook for somebody! I’ll see you on Sunday.
