Sunday, January 22, 2023

What to cook: Lunar New Year recipes, weeknight seared shrimp and more

Try salmon and daikon in a garlic-butter miso sauce.

What to Cook This Week

Good morning. Happy Lunar New Year. I hope your Year of the Rabbit is full of beauty and bounty and peace. Also: longevity noodles, dumplings with chile crisp, wontons and more than 50 other dishes to help you observe the holiday.

For my meal tonight, I'm going to follow Andrea Nguyen's lead and cook suon kho (above), a Vietnamese dish of pork ribs in savory caramel sauce that's often made during Tet. Paired with rice and a bowl of dua gia, pickled bean sprout salad, I hope it will make for an auspicious start to the year.

As for the rest of the week. …

Monday

I think one of Melissa Clark's new recipes for winter salads would be just the thing for the start of the week. For myself, I'd go with this roasted butternut squash salad with green goddess dressing.

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Tuesday

Here's a new recipe from Naoko Takei Moore, and a banger at that: salmon and daikon in a garlic-butter miso sauce. There's levels to the flavor in this one.

Wednesday

Yasmin Fahr took the flavor profile of ceviche — citric acidity against spices and aromatics — and applied it to this quick weeknight dinner of seared shrimp with shallots and jalapeƱos. That's a fine dinner.

Thursday

Broccoli and Cheddar soup may be an internet darling for cooks nostalgic for childhood meals in fast-casual restaurants, but there's no nostalgia in Alison Roman's recipe. There's just big flavor, especially if you heed her advice and use the sharpest Cheddar available, to bring both richness and a welcome acidity.

Friday

And then you can round out the week with Ali Slagle's spicy sesame noodles with chicken and peanuts, another bid for auspiciousness in the Lunar New Year. Knowledge: I often use ground pork in place of the chicken. Fact: Make sure that you remove all of the white pith from the orange peel, to avoid bitterness. Opinion: It's a fantastic meal.

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Now, it's a few football fields away from anything to do with cleavers and mise en place, but I'm enjoying Elinor Lipman's clever, wry novel, "Ms. Demeanor."

Did you see that the actor John Larroquette is back in "Night Court," on NBC? Alexis Soloski interviewed him for The Times.

A staff writer for The New Yorker since 1991 and a contributing editor to both Golf Digest and Popular Mechanics, David Owen wrote an inquiry for the magazine about the "objectively objectionable" use of this very sentence structure, front-loaded and somersaulting.

Finally, here's a new track from Belle and Sebastian, "When We Were Very Young." Listen to that a few times this week while you're cooking. And I'll see you next week.

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