Sunday, February 11, 2024

Super chili Sunday

This easy (and pretty quick) recipe lends itself to all sorts of improvisations.
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February 11, 2024

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Chili for the championship

Many will make chili (above) today, one of the great foods of National Football League cuisine, up there with wings and nachos. Ali Slagle's recipe is top-drawer: deep in flavor, spice and smokiness, and fairly easy to prepare. I like to make it with coarsely ground beef from the butcher instead of the more finely cut stuff you get at the supermarket, but that's just me being fancy. Make it with whatever meat you like — so long as it's decently fatty, to bring out the taste of the aromatics. Chili's a good way to guarantee a win during the Super Bowl, whichever team you're rooting for.

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But I had the good fortune to run into the Jamaica-born chef Darian Bryan the other day, and we fell into a discussion of oxtail stew that led me to make the dish that very night, and to think it'd be perfect championship fare today. I learned to stew oxtails from Velma Hawthorne, the executive chef of the Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery & Grill in New York, who builds the stew on a foundation of burnt sugar, or browning sauce. It is fantastic, but the process can be hell on a pot. Bryan laughed when I said that and told me it was just fine to substitute a commercial browning sauce instead — something like Kitchen Bouquet, available in most grocery stores. I did and the result was transcendent.

As for the rest of the week. …

Monday

You don't need a proper recipe to make my bulgogi-style tofu, just some gochujang, ssamjang and a bunch of pantry staples, plus some lettuce for wrapping the crisp bits of fiery tofu and a bowl of rice. But don't take my word for it. Here's a note Marissa, a reader, left below my instructions: "The tofu was crisp and the flavor divine. Definitely a new favorite."

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Bulgogi-Style Tofu

By Sam Sifton

Tuesday

Ali Slagle's recipe for crispy baked fish with tartar sauce is an easy winter weeknight trip to a summer seafood shack, with a shattery crust; tangy, moist flesh; and no need for a big pot of oil. It's sheet-pan cooking at its finest.

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Crispy Baked Fish With Tartar Sauce

By Ali Slagle

25 minutes

Makes 4 servings

Wednesday

I love Nigella Lawson's recipe for roast pumpkin, radicchio and feta salad, though truth be told I generally make it with butternut squash in place of the pumpkin. Would sweet potato work just as well? It would, and that would be a very fine meal.

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Roast Pumpkin, Radicchio And Feta Salad

By Nigella Lawson

1 hour

Makes 4 to 6 servings

Thursday

"Easy" chicken noodle soups often rely on shards of leftover roast chicken, or a torn-up rotisserie bird. But Alexa Weibel's recipe begins with sautéed ground chicken instead, which makes for a far more complex and satisfying base. You'll be ready to eat in 30 minutes.

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Easiest Chicken Noodle Soup

By Alexa Weibel

30 minutes

Makes 4 to 6 servings

Friday

Then you can head into the weekend with a sort of feast: the recipe for roast pork with milk that Pierre Franey helped Bryan Miller bring to life in the late 1980s, a memory of Miller's taken from the kitchen of Adrienne Biasin, who for years ran the bistro Chez la Vieille in Paris. It's luscious.

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Roast Pork With Milk

By Bryan Miller and Pierre Franey

3 1/2 hours

Makes 4 servings

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Now, it's a far cry from anything to do with victuals or the price of tea, but Tim Brinkhof has a fascinating story in Smithsonian Magazine about how Dutch painters depicted the extreme weather of the Little Ice Age, which ran from roughly 1250 to 1860.

Celebrity profiles — can't stop, won't stop. Here's Simone Biles in Vanity Fair, by Leah Faye Cooper.

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Finally, via Sasha Frere-Jones, here's Duct Butter, "Country Girl." Listen to that while you're cooking. I'll be back next week.

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