Weeknight Cooking
26 recipes found
Lohikeitto (Finnish Salmon Soup)
This quick and easy Finnish seafood soup is somehow as bright and fresh as it is hearty. Don't skimp on the fresh dill.
Chicken Pot Pie Empanadas
Empanada dough is your blank canvas! Found in the freezer section of most Latin supermarkets, these handy disks can be filled with just about anything. Transform last night's leftovers into a whole new meal—think roasted vegetables, shredded chicken, or even leftover chili. These chicken pot pie empanadas are a delicious example of how creative you can get. Fry or bake them until golden for a satisfying snack or meal.
Carbonara Two Ways
This rich carbonara remake, with diced ham and thick cut bacon, turns bacon, eggs, and ham into an easy weeknight dinner.
Steamed Salmon with Ginger, Green Garlic, Potatoes & Miso
A rich filet of salmon gets dressed up with a delicate sauce of fresh ginger, green garlic, and umami-packed miso.
Fried Egg Salad From Ideas in Food
Ideas in Food's fried egg salad recipe comes together in no time, without missing the crunchy, savory, and creamy components. No egg peeling required!
Sweet Corn Butter From Whitney Wright
This corn ‘butter’ recipe was a staple on station at Per Se, where we stirred it into a sweet corn risotto. The magic happens due to the natural corn starches.
Pommes Aligot
This classic French pommes aligot recipe is the ultimate comfort food. It's creamy mashed potatoes mixed with rich, melty cheese, creating a creamy consistency.
3-Ingredient Macaroni & Cheese
This 3-ingredient mac and cheese recipe is quick and satisfying. Think boxed mac and cheese, but even better. with starchy pasta water, butter, and cheese.
Magical Three-Ingredient Dressing
Mayonnaise-haters, look away. This magical dressing—which leans entirely on the creamy, tanginess of mayo and the spicy, garlicky Huy Fong sauce I eat by the jarful—is my secret weapon for any quick salad, grain bowl, seared protein, or sautéed green in need of some zhooshing up. It asks pretty much nothing of you, and gives you everything in return.
Slow-Roasted Salmon With Kale, Chickpeas & Fried Lemons
Meet my new favorite way to cook salmon. In this recipe, the low oven temperature means it's just about impossible to mess up. Then, sauté kale and chickpeas.
Fettuccine Alfredo for One
This recipe is simple, it's just fettuccine, butter, and cheese all tossed together with a starchy sauce. It is so easy you can make it for one!
Ken Forkish's Hawaiian Pizza
If you have a deep affection for Hawaiian pizza, this recipe will make the best and most thoughtfully balanced you’ve ever tasted. And if, instead, Hawaiian pizza makes you inexplicably angry—well, if any pie is going to change your mind, this is it. Regardless of which side of the salty-sweet chasm you find yourself on, any homemade pizza can benefit from Forkish’s technique—and the sneaky-genius trick of tucking a thin layer of bacon grease below the sauce. You won’t taste bacon, you will just taste *good*. Adapted slightly from The Elements of Pizza (Ten Speed Press, 2016).
30-Minute Skillet Chicken Thighs with Crispy Garlic Chips
This 30 Minute, one-pan, few-ingredient, Chicken Thigh recipe is impossibly crisp and juicy, topped with a tangle of garlic chips that are fried in chicken fat.
Von Diaz’s Pork Tenderloin Pernil Style
Von Diaz is sitting on the secret to not-at-all boring or dry pork tenderloin. In an ode to her mother, a working parent who always preferred her meats light and lean, Diaz seasons and marinates tenderloin like pernil, a Puerto Rican dish that's traditionally made with pork shoulder and roasted low and slow for several hours. Bonus: Because tenderloin can cook much faster and hotter and stay tender, you get to pernil in under 30 minutes. Adapted slightly from Coconuts & Collards: Recipes and Stories from Puerto Rico to the Deep South (University Press of Florida, 2018).
Pomme Purée
An extra buttery potato side dish pomme puree is richer, creamier, smoother and, dare I say, better than traditional mashed potatoes.
Nigel Slater’s Raspberry Ripple Sandwich
This sandwich is a joyously messy experience and nostalgic even if you didn’t grow up in England eating raspberry ripple ice cream (which is vanilla with a raspberry swirl, for the rest of us). The recipe originally comes from Eat, Slater’s book full of simple, narrative recipe ideas, leaving the amounts to your taste and imagination. This mini recipe is adapted slightly from Genius Desserts (Ten Speed Press, September 2018), one of 7 ways to turn a loaf of bread into dessert.
Tamagoyaki-Inspired Scrambled Eggs
This recipe's tamagoyaki-inspired soft scrambled eggs taste like tamago nigiri, but are faster and easier to make. Serve over rice for an easy, delicious meal.
Wylie Dufresne's Soft-Scrambled Egg Grilled Cheese
Crank up the heat and whisk, finishing these scrambled eggs in about a minute. Melt in a generous amount of cream cheese for the creamiest of grilled cheese recipes.
Estela's Candied Sesame Seeds
This is one of the more rewarding ways to spend 10 minutes. As you stir sesame seeds in a sticky syrup, suddenly the water disappears and a dry crystalline layer of sugar pops to the surface. At Estela, chef Ignacio Mattos’s curve-shattering restaurant in New York City, they roll scoops of caramelized white chocolate in the candied seeds, but the seeds are also just as good sprinkled over ice cream or paletas, or topping a brownie or a slice of cheesecake—anywhere you want a little crunchy sesame-flavored twinkle. Recipe from Genius Desserts: 100 Recipes That Will Change the Way You Bake (Ten Speed Press, September 2018). To read the whole story, go here, and to get the recipe for Dori Sanders' No-Churn Fresh Lemon Ice Cream, go here.
Dori Sanders’ No-Churn Fresh Lemon Ice Cream
When it’s too hot to make a custard, it’s nice to know that you can still have sweet-tart, bracing no churn lemon ice cream all the same. This recipe is perfect!
Pasta With Lemon-Parmigiano Sauce
This creamy, dreamy, and delicious lemon-Parmigiano pasta recipe is the ultimate last-minute meal. The sauce is quickly assembled as the pasta boils away.
Inside Out Bagel Grilled Cheese
Inspired by Sadelle's in New York City, my inside out bagel grilled cheese recipe includes two schmears of mayonnaise or butter and extra sharp cheddar cheese.
Marinated Zucchini, Kalamata Olive, & Mozzarella Salad
The perfect no-cook dish for last-minute summer dinners.
Pan con Tomate with Burrata
Pan con Tomate was a revelation to me the first time I had it. Sweet from the tomatoes, spicy from the raw garlic, and warmed by the toasted bread, it might be the meal I would choose to eat forever if I had to make that choice. This recipe is basic but I really like to add a wedge of burrata on top to make it truly over the top. It's simplicity at its best. And to top it all off, it only takes about 10 minutes to make from start to finish.