Good morning. For a bunch of mornings now, I’ve been including a smear of marmalade to my buttered breakfast bagel and sliced hard-boiled egg, with a sprinkle of kosher salt. I just like the trace of sweetness towards the egg and salt and bread.
Accordingly, I used to be thrilled to see Ali Slagle’s new recipe for a lunchtime model: the ham and jam sandwich (above). It’s an enlargement of the Parisian sandwich often called jambon-beurre: a cut up baguette with jam for sweetness, ham for salt and Dijon mustard and black pepper for slightly warmth. Gained’t you give {that a} strive?
Additionally within the noon realm, I like Naz Deravian’s new recipe for borani-yeh esfenaj, an Iranian spinach yogurt dish, which makes for a scrumptious lunchtime dip with toast, or as an accompaniment for rice. (Extra lunch concepts: an Italian-style tuna sandwich; a superior egg salad sandwich; sardine toasts with tomato and candy onion or a fast tomato soup with grilled cheese.)
Which brings us inexorably to dinner. You may give this slow-cooker shrimp in purgatory a strive. In case you earn a living from home, set the sauce up after lunch and let it burble alongside pleasantly all afternoon, then add the shrimp proper earlier than serving. In case you’d choose to maneuver sooner, there’s all the time spaghetti with fried eggs, a four-ingredient meal that punches effectively above its weight.
How about one-pot hen and rice with ginger and cumin? I just like the golden raisins in there a lot.
Or you might make a cast-iron steak, which makes use of a way that my father used for hamburgers after I was rising up: You salt the pan moderately than the meat, after which flip the steak each 30 seconds or so over very excessive warmth till it develops a severe golden crust. It’ll be medium-rare in about 4 minutes, however examine the temperature with that instant-read thermometer I’m all the time telling you to purchase. You need the steak at about 120 to 125 levels, and the temperature will proceed to rise because it rests. (Bonus factors if you happen to do that whereas ingesting a bourbon and department water, and hossing me about my homework.)
And perhaps serve it with these smashed potatoes with Thai-style chile and herb sauce?
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Now, it’s nothing in any way to do with rhubarb or strawberries, however Jill Lepore on bicycles is scrumptious studying. That’s in The New Yorker.
In The Atlantic, Kaitlyn Tiffany wrote about why the viral on-line problem isn’t coming again.
In a current publication, I made be aware of an annual boats-with-no-motor run up the Inside Passage from Washington State to Ketchikan, Alaska. A subscriber simply put me on to Zach Carver’s 2020 documentary, “The Race to Alaska.” Right here’s the trailer, and it delivers.
Lastly, André De Shields performed his final efficiency as Hermes in “Hadestown” final night time on Broadway. Right here he’s accepting his 2019 Tony Award for finest actor in a musical. Take pleasure in that, and I’ll be again on Wednesday.
