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Your new chocolate chip cookie recipe

Leave it to Rick Martínez to take everyone's favorite cookie and make it even better.
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April 27, 2024

Piloncillo chocolate chip cookies are shown in close-up to reveal melted chunks of chocolate and crystals of sea salt.
Kelly Marshall for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Samantha Seneviratne.

Your new chocolate chip cookie recipe

By Mia Leimkuhler

I have never met Rick Martínez — I would love to, ideally with Choco in tow — but I consider him my cookie godfather. In 2017 he wrote about his favorite brown butter chocolate chip cookies for Bon Appétit; I made them and won third place in New York magazine's staff holiday cookie contest that year. I've made the cookies a million times since, to the point that friends refer to them as "those cookies." Rick does a lot of things well (like grilled chicken and brown butter glazed radishes and refried beans), but damn if that man doesn't know a chocolate chip cookie.

His new recipe for piloncillo chocolate chip cookies, then, deserves a red carpet rollout, blaring trumpets and ticker tape confetti. Grating the piloncillo (unrefined whole-cane sugar) is admittedly a bit of a chore, but the depth of flavor it adds to the cookies — notes of caramel, butterscotch, molasses, brown butter, even honeysuckle and anise — is well worth the elbow grease. It also adds texture, as the larger pieces of broken piloncillo render like bits of toffee inside the finished cookies. These are destined to be "those cookies."

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Shifting from sweet to savory, David Tanis's spring chicken with mushroom and lemon is a perfect excuse to go wild with all those fresh, leafy herbs at the market: dill, tarragon, parsley, chives and mint. Or go all in on your favorite (for me, that would be evergreen and ever-ready parsley). Leftover herbs can go into Melissa Clark's all-purpose green sauce — which, incidentally, would be delicious on leftover chicken.

Spring is also springing in this seared fish with creamed kale and leeks from Alexa Weibel, where the sautéed leeks do double duty, first infusing the cream that dresses the kale, and then mixing in with the rice to form a pale green pilaf.

Springtime also means fava beans. But as much as I love those beautiful, tender little beans, I don't love the shelling and peeling it takes to get to them. Thankfully, the fava beans in Ifrah F. Ahmed's fuul (Somali-style fava bean stew) come from a can, and I'm going to try it with the frozen favas I have stashed in my freezer next to the peas. (It's always springtime in the freezer.)

Pasta amatriciana isn't springy, per se, but something about Kay Chun's recipe feels perfectly suited for blue skies. Maybe it's the colors: the pale pink of the guanciale, the vermilion sauce or — a true sign of the shifting seasons — the glass of dry rosé I want to drink with it.

Lastly, I've had a strong hankering for nachos lately. (This is misleading; I almost always want nachos.) Ali Slagle's loaded vegan nachos aren't any more work than your standard loaded nachos, and the result — crunchy chips and all the necessary nacho building blocks draped in a creamy, smooth cauliflower-based queso — can be devoured by meat-eaters and non-meat-eaters alike. I love diving into these vegan nachos knowing that the "cheese" sauce is actually a vegetable, a real "gold stars for me" moment.

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WHAT TO COOK

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David Malosh for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Simon Andrews.

Spring Chicken With Mushroom and Lemon

By David Tanis

1½ hours

Makes 4 to 6 servings

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Yossy Arefi for The New York Times (Photography and Styling)

Seared Fish With Creamed Kale and Leeks

By Alexa Weibel

45 minutes

Makes 4 servings

A Dutch oven holds fuul, or Somali-style fava bean stew, with a wooden spoon for serving.

David Malosh for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Simon Andrews.

Fuul (Somali-Style Fava Bean Stew)

By Ifrah F. Ahmed

30 minutes

Makes 4 servings

A white bowl filled with noodles glossed with tomato sauce and topped with chunks of meat is photographed from overhead. Another bowl of pasta and a small bowl with cheese peek in from the top, and a wine glass from the bottom right corner.

Linda Pugliese for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Monica Pierini.

Pasta Amatriciana 

By Kay Chun

25 minutes

Makes 4 servings

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Dane Tashima for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Barrett Washburne.

Loaded Vegan Nachos

By Ali Slagle

45 minutes

Makes 4 to 6 servings

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