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About as soon as every week, I discover myself consuming miso butter off a spoon like a deer with a salt lick. (In case you’ve ever puzzled what the glamorous lifetime of a Cooking editor appears like, that’s largely it.)
For me, it began with Sam Sifton’s recipe for miso hen, a very pretty technique to prepare dinner bone-in, skin-on hen thighs. That recipe, served with steamed white rice and the laziest potential model of a smashed cucumber salad, is an absolute no-notes dinner. But the compound butter is what made it into my common rotation: just-softened butter combined with white miso paste, honey and rice vinegar.
In his introduction, Sam suggests serving the unctuous unfold “on salmon or flounder, on corn or potatoes,” all of which I’ve dutifully tried. I’ve additionally miso-buttered crispy tofu, roasted broccoli, pan-fried mushrooms and almost each form of pasta. I’ve unfold it on radishes and on thick slices of sourdough, anyplace I crave the richness of butter with that unmistakable fermented tang of miso.
Of course, you shouldn’t consider the whole lot a stranger writes on the web. But I do hope you’ll consider me once I inform you to make this recipe.
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A newer fixation of mine: full-fat Greek yogurt, an ideal meals that always surprises me with its potential purposes. I particularly adore it combined with lime juice, feta and herbs and drizzled on prime of Yasmin Fahr’s salmon and couscous salad with cucumber-feta dressing, a supremely springy dinner that makes for great leftovers.
There’s a particular place in my coronary heart for recipes that require zero chopping. Ali Slagle’s one-pot tortellini with meat sauce is one such recipe — candy Italian sausage and store-bought (straight out of the freezer is ok) cheese tortellini do the heavy lifting.
But generally, just a little extra effort is definitely the draw. When making Yvonne Maffei’s dates with cream and chopped pistachios, for instance, the act of pitting dates and stuffing them with nuts turns into meditative when you get right into a groove. Topped with crème fraîche and aromatic citrus zest, these dates are a candy technique to have fun Eid al-Fitr.
If you like a recipe that lets the oven do the give you the results you want, look to those Greek lemon potatoes from Ali Slagle. They’re roasted in a shocking mixture of equal elements olive oil, lemon juice and hen inventory — it might seem to be an excessive amount of liquid, however the potatoes concurrently steam and crisp, leading to good creamy interiors.
Finally, even in the event you’re not within the temper for cookies proper this second, I’m going to induce you to try this recipe for double chocolate chip cookies from Samantha Seneviratne. They’re greatest when the dough has no less than 24 hours to relaxation within the fridge, and Future You could also be craving them in a day’s time.
That’s all from me! Wishing you a weekend of many great meals.
