Tag: RECIPE

RECIPE: Seared pork chops with fennel and herb salad

Italian porchetta is a special dish of spit-roasted pork flavored with herbs, fennel and garlic. It’s delicious, but much too involved for a weeknight dinner. To give pork chops the same flavor profile with less work, we narrowed the ingredients to those best suited for searing on the stovetop. In this recipe from our book […]

RECIPE: Tikka masala-inspired tomato-mushroom curry

Many recipes for Indian curries such as tikka masala and butter chicken call for copious amounts of butter, yogurt and cream to give them a rich, satisfying texture. For a lighter vegetarian interpretation of the takeout classic, meaty cremini mushrooms stand in for chicken and pureed cashews make up the base of the curry. In […]

RECIPE: Yakiudon with pickled ginger

Japanese udon noodles are all about the chew, but it’s hard to replicate the texture with what’s available in American markets. Fresh udon is hard to come by. So for this recipe from our book “Milk Street Tuesday Nights,” which limits recipes to 45 minutes or less, we needed a solution for more widely available […]

RECIPE: Sausage, potato and sweet pepper traybake

Traybakes are a great dinner solution when you can’t or won’t spend time at the stovetop. With this mostly hands-off technique, the ingredients are combined on a single baking sheet, then roasted in the oven. In this recipe from our book “Cook What You Have,” which draws on pantry staples to assemble easy, weeknight meals, […]

RECIPE: Umbrian style chicken alla cacciatora

Tomatoes are non-negotiable in Americanized versions of chicken alla cacciatora, but it’s a different story in Umbria, a region in central Italy. Instead of tomatoes, the rustic chicken braise gets its flavor from lemon, olives, garlic and herbs. Capers also are customary, but for this recipe in our book “Tuesday Nights Mediterranean,” which features weeknight-friendly […]

RECIPE: Dan Pashman’s cacio e pepe e chili crisp

Dan Pashman worked on this recipe with James Park, a recipe developer and author of the book “Chili Crisp: 50+ Recipes to Satisfy Your Spicy, Crunchy, Garlicky Cravings.” Chili crisp – a condiment you can buy in jars or make yourself – come in many varieties, but Park says they all include three basic components […]