What to Cook This Week

Hanukkah gets underway this evening, and perhaps that brings latkes to your table, a roast chicken, some kugel (above), maybe rugelach for dessert.

What to Cook This Week

For myself, I might nod to the holiday with the okonomi-latke that I learned to make one winter evening in the apartment of the chefs Sawako Okochi and Aaron Israel of Shalom Japan in Brooklyn. Pile that pancake high with salmon roe.

What to Cook This Week

It’s non-religiously delicious! Follow with niku udon, a Japanese beef soup, and a platter of jelly doughnuts to send you to bed. That would make for a very fine day of cooking and eating. As for the rest of the week …

What to Cook This Week

Melissa Clark’s recipe for shakshuka with feta takes a classic North African breakfast dish and brings it home for dinner, with silky eggs and melting nuggets of salty feta cheese to offset the warm spices of the sauce.

Monday

Kay Chun developed this recipe for glass noodles with shrimp and spicy mustard sauce. It’s dead easy to make and incredibly flavorful. Yes, you can use hot English mustard powder in place of the Asian variety, though it doesn’t throw quite so hard of a punch.

Tuesday

Here’s Ali Slagle’s crispy pepperoni chicken, a homage to a dish served at Angie Rito and Scott Tacinelli’s exemplary Don Angie restaurant in Manhattan. In Ali’s recipe, you sauté bread crumbs with chopped pepperoni to create a salty, crunchy, fiery topping for seared chicken.

Wednesday

Kay’s tofu and bok choy with ginger-tahini sauce is simplicity itself, for which you steam soft tofu on a bed of bok choy, then drench everything with a creamy sauce amped up with ginger. I like it with a bowl of white rice, but this brown rice and seaweed salad would be pretty great instead.

Thursday

And then on Friday, in keeping with my belief that you should never, ever cook a holiday meal for the first time on the holiday itself, try a rehearsal for New Year’s Eve: Genevieve Ko’s outstanding roasted beef tenderloin with horseradish sauce, or her roasted side of salmon with miso cream.

Friday

Many thousands more recipes to cook this week are waiting for you on New York Times Cooking — and we post further inspiration on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube. Explore our best holiday recipes while you’re at it.

Friday

Ellen Wexler from the Smithsonian Magazine wrote about the discovery of a recording of “Phinney’s Rainbow,” which Stephen Sondheim wrote in 1948 as an 18-year-old sophomore at Williams College in Massachusetts. Interesting!

Friday

Finally, the painter Paul Klee was born on this day in 1879. (He died in 1940, and The Times took a wire story.) Here’s his “Tänzerin,” from 1932. Consider that, and I’ll see you on Friday. Melissa will write tomorrow.

Friday

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