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Good morning. I had a stunning run of Brooklyn sandwiches going, earlier than work, college and Easter intervened to ship me again to the kitchen. There was a traditional Saigon-style bánh mì from Ba Xuyen in Sunset Park. A colossal roast beef, fried eggplant and mozzarella hero from Defonte’s in Red Hook, with sizzling peppers, gravy and mayonnaise. A ton-katsu sando on pillowy milk bread from Taku Sando in Greenpoint.
These have been all unbelievable. I may eat store-bought sandwiches in Kings County for a residing, and I did for a time. (A couple of years in the past, I ginned up a recipe for the roast beef hero from Defonte’s.) But as we speak is Easter, and not likely a day for sandwiches — until they’re ham ones on little potato rolls, with robust mustard, to eat in a facet yard within the chill whereas kids run round in search of hidden eggs.
Give them to Father, please! (He’ll commerce for sweets.) I wish to make deviled eggs (above) to have a good time the vacation puckishly, or possibly an enormous egg salad to serve in lettuce cups. I undoubtedly wish to peel a number of for pickled eggs, cured with beets, vinegar and sugar: lovely pink orbs with a briny, barely candy taste to eat because the week progresses.
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That’s as we speak’s plan (together with a ham). As for the remainder of the week. …
Monday
I really like Sarah Copeland’s recipe for tofu makhani, a vegetarian tackle butter rooster, for each its ease of preparation and its deep taste. Some substitute the heavy cream added on the finish with coconut milk. I’m not one among them.
Tuesday
At first look, David Tanis’s recipe for pork cutlets with lemon and capers could seem like somewhat a lot for a weeknight, with all that dipping and breading and frying. But it’s straightforward, serial work that pays off superbly. Serve with buttered noodles and loads of lemon wedges.
Wednesday
Quesadillas for dinner are an exquisite factor, although they’re typically troublesome to make in bulk. Eric Kim’s new recipe for sheet-pan quesadillas brings reduction to these making ready them for a crowd, and you may adapt his directions to your tastes and desires.
Thursday
Melissa Clark, queen of ease, introduced us a stunning new recipe for one-pan creamy artichokes and peas. The dish makes for a stunning introduction to the season: sweetness cloaked in a sweater. You’ll make it a number of occasions earlier than summer time, little doubt.
Friday
And then you possibly can welcome the weekend with a fantastic new recipe from Vallery Lomas for roasted rooster thighs with sizzling honey and lime. What I like about it’s how you sweep the thighs with a mix of sizzling sauce and butter midway by means of baking, which crisps the pores and skin properly and offers a platform for the candy astringency of lime and honey on the finish.
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Now, it’s some appreciable distance from something to do with potted hare or papadzules, however somebody’s in all probability going to let you know to observe the sequence “3 Body Problem” on Netflix. (Here’s James Poniewozik’s evaluate in The New York Times.) I’m going to recommend that you just learn the three novels the present is predicated on as an alternative. Much higher!
“The Whistleblower,” the newest dispatch from the Outlaw Ocean Project, casts a really darkish eye on shrimp farming in India, an trade that gives roughly one in three shrimps consumed by Americans as we speak.
