The Secret to These Shrimp Tacos Is Worcestershire

Good morning. It’s skinned-knuckle season, the time of the 12 months that’s all about caught bolts and crushed washers and hydraulic fluid and backside paint, sacrificial zincs and ceramic wax — outdated boats coaxed again to well being to allow them to run us to the fishing grounds, so we are able to forged flies to bass.

I skinned my knee on the sting of a trailer. My studying glasses slipped out of my breast pocket whereas I used to be draining motor oil right into a compound bucket: splash. Where’s that gasket for the vapor separator tank? Time for a protracted bathe, two ibuprofen and tacos for dinner.

Specifically, these tacky shrimp tacos (above), a tackle tacos Gobernador. The unique is a dish out of Sinaloa, Mexico, the place it’s mentioned to have emerged from the restaurant Los Arcos, in coastal Mazatlán, within the early Nineteen Nineties. Christian Reynoso’s model amps up the flavour: chopped shrimp sautéed in butter with garlic and Worcestershire sauce, poblano chiles and diced onions, with melted cheese on flour tortillas. You would possibly add some oregano or cilantro, a smidge of tomato paste, a couple of chopped tomatoes. But don’t omit the Worcestershire sauce, which provides a pleasant umami pop in opposition to the sweetness of the shrimp.

With Sunday sorted, we are able to flip to the remainder of the week. …

Tuesday

Make a fast aioli with store-bought mayonnaise when you’re cooking spaghetti and also you’ve received the bottom for Christian Reynoso’s new recipe for garlicky pasta with greens. Toss the pasta with greens to wilt, after which coat with the pungent sauce. Weeknight easy and deeply scrumptious.

Wednesday

Mark Bittman introduced his recipe for a minimalist roast hen to The Times again in 2011, and it has been delighting our readers ever since. Four elements (hen, olive oil, salt and black pepper), a preheated cast-iron skillet and a sizzling oven will ship a superlative dinner in roughly an hour, with leftovers for later!

Friday

And then, to welcome the weekend, take your leftover hen from Wednesday and use it to construct Millie Peartree’s terrific recipe for a jerk hen pot pie beneath a buttery, turmeric-stained crust that’s harking back to a Jamaican beef patty. So good!

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Now, it’s some appreciable distance from something to do with blanching carrots or carving a duck, but when I’m by no means going to learn the 20 novels in Emile Zola’s “Les Rougon-Macquart” (and neither are you), no less than we are able to have enjoyable studying, in The London Review of Books, Brandon Taylor’s account of doing so, “Is It Even Good?”

Joan Nathan’s new cookbook, “My Life in Recipes,” arrives in shops on Tuesday, however I used to be fortunate sufficient to get an early copy and may suggest it now. Lots of terrific recipes and a bunch of really wonderful ones for dips. Joan’s dip sport could be very sturdy.

A job I didn’t know existed, however after all it does and it’s fairly cool: firefighter in Antarctica, profiled briefly in Hakai Magazine this month.

Finally, right here’s Jawbreaker, “Boxcar,” from 1992, kissing off the Bay Area punk scene. It’s a reminder that in relation to music as to cooking, authenticity is for the birds. Cook one thing scrumptious, and I’ll be again subsequent week.