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Creamy Fish With Mushrooms and Bacon
This delightful fish recipe is inspired by a recipe from the chef Hugue Dufour of M. Wells restaurant in Long Island City, Queens. It’s based on the classic French preparation called bonne femme, which refers to simple, homey dishes often containing wine, mushrooms and cream. Here, bacon and tomatoes are added to the sauce, giving it brawny depth and brightness. You can use any kind of mild, white-fleshed fish you like. Just watch it carefully so the fillets don’t overcook under the broiler.
Shrimp and Corn Chowder
Creamy and a little sweet with a hint of salty smoke from bacon, this classic chowder makes use of canned corn for its tenderness and ease, but you could go all in with fresh corn. If you have the time, buy shell-on shrimp and save the shells to enhance boxed stock. Even a quick simmer of five minutes will give the finished chowder more flavor. Using medium or large shrimp instead of jumbo cuts down on cooking time—plus there will be more to enjoy, especially for leftovers.
Greens and Peas Salad With Bacon
This salad has all the snappy sweetness of spring, offset by the smoky saltiness of bacon and a bacon fat vinaigrette. Black pepper is a key ingredient, not an accent, so grind on. Bacon fat sets as it cools, so make the dressing when the bacon pan is still warm, and if you’re making it in advance, make sure it's just warmer than room temperature. If you store it in a jar, sit the jar in a hot water bath to melt the fat before dressing the salad. Also make sure that your salad ingredients are room temperature, rather than cold, when you dress. To make this salad vegetarian, leave out the bacon and replace the bacon fat in the dressing with olive oil.
Bacon and Egg Don
In the pantheon of comforting donburi (Japanese rice bowl dishes like katsudon, oyakodon and gyudon), bacon and eggs aren’t traditional toppings by any means, but they sure hit the spot. Eggs, soft-scrambled in the bacon fat with mirin and soy sauce, serve as a gently sweetened duvet for the rice and a counter to the salty bacon. Mirin, the Japanese rice wine, does a lot of work here to take ordinary eggs and rice to restaurant-flavor heights. To level up the rice, stir in 1 tablespoon rice vinegar and 1 teaspoon mirin while fluffing it. A sprinkle of furikake (rice seasoning) and shichimi togarashi (seven-spice blend) might feel like gilding the lily, but their nuanced savoriness completes this dish.
Mortadella Carbonara
This pasta celebrates mortadella, the soft Italian cold cut made of pork seasoned with black pepper and nutmeg, and often dotted with pistachios. As ribbons of the tender, delicately spiced meat tangle with long noodles, its milky fat melts into the sauce of egg and cheese for an incredibly silky dish. By using mortadella instead of guanciale, as is traditional in carbonara, you don’t need to cook the meat first, so this dish can be made in one pot. Green peas add pops of freshness, but skip a pistachio, basil or mint garnish (tempting as it may be) to avoid detracting from the main attraction. Top the finished dish with more black pepper and Parmesan and savor all the richness mortadella has to offer.
Chopped Wedge Salad
About three-quarters of the way through eating a wedge salad, the toppings are gone and you’re often left with unseasoned, watery lettuce that you have little interest in finishing. If this sounds familiar, consider messing with tradition by skipping the wedge and chopping all of the ingredients. When the salad’s elements are the same size and tossed together in a bowl, the lettuce is thoroughly dressed, and every bite is an ideal one with a perfect mix of juicy tomatoes, smoky bacon, crunchy lettuce and creamy blue cheese. A chopped wedge salad can be a meal unto itself, or serve it alongside burgers, steak or garlic bread.
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Macau Pork Chop Sandwich
This salty-sweet sandwich featuring a tender, flavorful bone-in pork chop on a toasted, buttered pineapple bun is a classic in Macau, where it's won over the hearts and stomachs of locals and tourists alike.
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5-Ingredient Pork Roll (AKA Taylor Ham)
All New Jerseyans agree it is made up of the same four ingredients: a bready vessel, fried egg, American cheese, and slices of fried pork roll made by one of two companies—Taylor Provisions or Case Pork Roll. Our version ensures buttery layers throughout.
Skillet Pasta With Bacon and Eggs
Emulsifying creamy carbonara sauce can feel trickier than treading a tightrope, but this skillet pasta recipe fulfills those cravings with ease, and all in one pan. Start by searing some sliced bacon until crisp, toasting orzo in the rendered bacon fat, then simmering with stock until pasta is al dente. Next, you’ll stir in a few handfuls of Parmesan, then crack eggs right into the nearly cooked pasta. The whites will cook until creamy, but the yolks should remain runny, so that as you eat, the yolk mingles with the pasta for silky spoonfuls.
Herb-Marinated Pork Chops
Perfect for low-fuss weeknight meals, thin, boneless pork chops cook up in no time. To infuse these chops with the maximum amount of flavor, marinate them after cooking rather than before. A short, 15-minute soak in the zesty garlic-and-herb vinaigrette allows them to absorb all of the bright, herbaceous notes — and helps ensure that the meat stays juicy. Serve the versatile chops and sauce with roasted veggies, alongside a simple green salad (no need for a separate dressing), or tucked into rolls for sandwiches.
Seafood Boil
You don’t need to be at the beach to make this classic seaside dinner — an assortment of fresh seafood and a really big stock pot will get you there in an hour. Feel free to make this seafood boil your own by swapping in mussels for the clams, or lobster in place of the crab legs. With sausage, corn on the cob and steamed potatoes, this is a true one-pot meal. The flavorful cooking liquid turns into a buttery, lemony sauce that coats the seafood and vegetables. Cover your table with kraft paper and dump the seafood boil out, letting everyone dig in, or, for easier cleanup, serve the boil in a large shallow bowl, with small bowls of garlic butter on the side for dipping.
Tonkatsu
For crackly crisp yet juicy tonkatsu, or Japanese pork cutlets, pound boneless pork loins until impossibly thin, dredge in flour, egg and panko, then deep-fry, not once, but twice. (After the first fry, the pork rests for a bit, allowing it to finish cooking from the residual heat without drying out. It’s quickly fried a second time until golden brown.) Drizzle the finished pork cutlets with tonkatsu sauce, a spiced, sweet and tangy sauce. Here, ketchup and Worcestershire make for a quick rendition, but you can also purchase premade sauce at Japanese markets and online. Serve piping hot tonkatsu and rice alongside a heap of cold shredded cabbage drizzled with a creamy dressing, if you like.
Chashu
Chashu is a Japanese adaptation of char siu, or Chinese barbecued pork, that’s typically served atop a bowl of steaming ramen, or on its own over steamed rice. Whereas char siu is roasted in an oven at high heat and typically includes Chinese five spice, hoisin and red yeast rice or red food coloring for its distinct color, chashu is usually rolled to maintain its moisture, seared, then braised in a flavorful liquid of sake, soy sauce, sugar, scallions, ginger and sometimes mirin. Save the rich, leftover broth for braising vegetables, or marinate peeled, hard boiled eggs in it, then use the eggs to top ramen. Uncut pork belly can sometimes be tricky to find, so call the butcher ahead of your visit to order a whole piece before they slice it for bacon.
Bacon, Egg and Brussels Sprouts Salad
Brussels sprouts star in this hearty riff on a wilted salad, giving it more structure and crunch than one with the usual floppy lettuce or spinach, and an egg on top adds heft, turning a side dish into a light main course. There’s tangy whole-grain mustard in the vinaigrette, too, which contrasts with the richness of the bacon. Serve this with crusty bread for scooping up the savory bacon fat and egg yolk inevitably left on the bottom of the plate.
Macaroni and Peas
This recipe starts with a love of store-bought mac and cheese, amplified with frozen peas and diced ham. But then, it adds a few layers of flavor, increasing the peas, sautéing the cured pork and using a from-scratch garlicky Parmesan sauce inspired by classic pasta paglia e fieno (“straw and hay pasta,” so named because it’s typically made with a combination of plain and green fettuccine pastas that resembles fresh and dried grass). While pasta paglia e fieno typically uses reduced heavy cream as its sauce, this recipe keeps it a little lighter by decreasing the amount of cream and instead relying on eggs to give the sauce its clingy, glossy texture, like in a good carbonara. A finish of parsley and mint further lightens it.
Lasagna Soup
This simple, one-pot soup delivers all the comfort of a classic lasagna with very little of the work. A jar of marinara sauce is its secret to speedy flavor, along with a combination of ground beef and Italian sausage (though for ease, you can use one or the other), plus a pinch of ground nutmeg. Dried lasagna noodles are broken into small pieces and cooked directly in the soup, thickening the broth with their starches as they soften. Don’t skip the ricotta-Parmesan topping; it adds richness and the unmistakable essence of lasagna. This soup comes together quickly and is best served right away; the noodles will continue to absorb the broth as it sits.
Shabu Shabu
Shabu shabu, which means “swish swish” in Japanese, is named for the sound the ingredients make when they’re cooking. This warm and festive style of Japanese hot pot is meant to be shared with family and friends, cooked and served tableside in a donabe over a portable gas stove. A beautiful variety of vegetables and beef or pork are sliced so they can quickly poach in the mild kombu, or dried kelp, broth. (Sometimes, the kombu is paired with a bonito dashi.) If you don’t have a donabe, a Dutch oven or similarly sized pot will do; the portable burner is a must, though. Use this recipe as a guide, and select the ingredients you like from each category. A trip to a Japanese or Asian market will take care of the shopping, but many of the ingredients here are available at standard grocery stores. Once everything has been prepped, all that is left is to gather around and cook together.
Xiao Long Bao (Soup Dumplings)
Filled with seasoned pork and savory broth, these delicately pleated dumplings are a labor of love. The trick to getting the soup inside the dumpling is using aspic, a gelatin that forms when meat broth (traditionally made with pork skin and feet) cools and hardens into a jelly. Here, powdered gelatin is dissolved in chicken stock, chilled to set, then cut into small cubes and added to the filling. The pork and aspic are bundled up in the dough, sealed, then steamed, melting the aspic and filling the area around the pork with a heavenly, slurpable broth. Assembling the soup dumplings requires patience and practice, so solicit family and friends to join in on the work. Serve immediately with black vinegar and sliced ginger, and some chile crisp for a little kick.
Cemitas
The cemita is a widely popular Mexican sandwich from the state of Puebla. It’s named for the bread it’s served on, an egg-rich, sesame seed bun. Also referred to as a cemita Poblana, the sandwich is frequently filled with a crispy fried cutlet, often pork or chicken. Traditional toppings are layered to create a symphony of textures and flavors, including creamy avocado, salty Oaxaca cheese, tangy pickled jalapeños or smoky chipotles en adobo, fresh raw onions and papalo (a fragrant Mexican herb similar to cilantro). If Oaxaca cheese is unavailable, string cheese delivers a similar texture and flavor.
Hot Pot
Featuring a steaming pot of savory broth surrounded by platters of meats, seafood and vegetables, Chinese-style hot pot is a fun, interactive dining experience meant to be shared with friends and family. The practice likely began during the Song dynasty (960-1279), when cooking food in a communal copper pot became popular among nobility, but nowadays, a large metal pot — or double-sided pot if you want both a spicy and a mild broth — perched atop a portable burner is used so everything can be cooked at the table. Diners choose their ingredients, dip them into the bubbling soup, then into accompanying sauces. When it comes to ingredients, the more the merrier: All of the amounts below are just suggestions, so mix and match until you have a variety that makes you happy. For a vegetarian hot pot, double up on the tofu or bean curd and vegetables. The soup base and ingredients vary by region: Sichuan-style hot pot, for example, is famous for its numbingly spicy red broth spiked with Sichuan peppercorns, the Cantonese version is loaded with seafood, and Beijing-style is made with mutton. (Here’s everything you need to make hot pot at home.)
Bacon-Cheddar Dip
Bacon and Cheddar, that time-honored pairing, meet up once more in this easy, spicy skillet dip. Grated Cheddar, the sharper the better, and crisp bacon slivers are folded into a mix of cream cheese and sour cream that’s been zipped up with hot sauce. You can prepare the dip a few hours in advance, then broil it just before serving so that the Cheddar emerges melted, singed and bubbly on top. Marinated cherry tomatoes (or you can substitute prepared salsa), scallions and more bacon make for a colorful, juicy garnish. Serve it with anything you love to dip: Chips, veggies or crackers are all welcome.
Sausage Smash Burgers
The delightful characteristics of a beef smash burger — thin, quick-cooking patties with a superbly caramelized ragged edge — are applied here to Italian-style sausage. (The stress relief from smashing food is yet another smash burger perk.) Mayo smeared on soft brioche buns along with a tangle of sautéed sweet peppers and onions top the patties, making this a bit like the sausage and peppers of the burger world. Optional oregano adds a fresh herbal accent. Each bite is savory, rich, sweet and smashingly craveable. These sandwiches are delicious all by themselves, but if you’d like a side, serve with a green salad or French fries.
Shoyu Ramen
Soy sauce, or shoyu, dashi and chicken broth are the foundation of this comforting Japanese noodle soup, which is garnished with hearty toppings like soy-marinated eggs, pork belly, pickled bamboo shoots and fish cakes. Traditionally made with homemade dashi and chashu, or Japanese pork belly, you can speed things up by using instant dashi powder and store-bought chashu. (If you make chashu from scratch, use the cooking liquid to flavor the soup.) The soy-marinated eggs must be prepared at least 6 hours in advance, but that leaves time for other ingredient prep, including rounding up a range of textural toppings, which can all be found at a Japanese market. As for the ramen noodles, frozen, fresh or dried all do the trick.
Egg Rolls
With a garlicky-ginger pork and cabbage filling tucked inside a crisp and chewy wrapper, egg rolls are a much-loved Chinese-American dish that is fun to make at home. Inspired by traditional East Asian spring rolls, egg rolls are thought to have first appeared at a Chinese restaurant in New York City in the 1930s. Unlike spring roll wrappers, egg roll wrappers are thicker and made with eggs, so they develop delightfully crackly bubbles on the surface during frying. The filling in this version includes ground pork, shredded carrots and cabbage (you can use a bagged slaw mix) and vermicelli rice noodles, but feel free to swap out half the pork with shrimp, or replace the meat with mushrooms for a vegetarian version by adding them to the slaw mix. Prepare a batch of egg rolls in advance and freeze (see Tip), then fry when the mood strikes.