What To Cook Right Now, The Best Guide

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That pot of collards would also be apropos for New Year’s Day, when serving greens and black-eyed peas is traditional across the Southern United States, for a meal closely connected to African American culture.

“Risotto is not as hard as people make it out to be,” he writes in his column for The New York Times that accompanies his recipe for chestnut risotto (above) with roasted mushrooms and red onions.

Stirring every three to five minutes, he advises, is enough to keep the bottom from burning but frees you up to do other things in the kitchen — perhaps putting the finishing touches on his cream cheese poundcake.

It’s baked as a sheet-cake and iced with whipped cream and a shower of lipstick-pink freeze-dried raspberries, truly resplendent to behold.

I love the look of Yotam Ottolenghi’s butternut squash pie with leeks and za’atar, which would make a truly special vegetarian main course.

You could round it out with his spinach salad with dates and almonds (a recipe from “Jerusalem,” the book he and Sami Tamimi published in 2012) and maybe a few fillets of Sam Sifton’s roasted salmon with brown sugar and mustard, if you have pescatarians at the table.

And finally, my favorite course: dessert! If you have finished all your holiday cookies, you might be ready to bake some more.

I’m excited to try Dorie Greenspan’s inspired lemon meringue cookies, which resemble adorable miniature pies. Cookie-adjacent are Scott Loitsch’s easy and extremely fun brown butter Rice Krispie treats.

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What To Cook Right Now, The Best Guide

That pot of collards would also be apropos for New Year’s Day, when serving greens and black-eyed peas is traditional across the Southern United States, for a meal closely connected to African American culture.