We’re rolling toward the most festive time of the year — and, naturally, the busiest one.
On the one hand, I’m dreaming of pie, especially now that our Thanksgiving 2024 pie recipes have arrived. Vaughn Vreeland created six new cozy-chic recipes for the season, and he stars in a video showing you how to make them all. (Watch it here.)
And that’s not all. We’re posting scores of new recipes that are meant for the holidays, though, frankly, I think you shouldn’t wait to make them. Gather your friends ASAP and feed them Andy Baraghani’s herby mashed potatoes with labneh or his caramelized squash with cinnamon toasted nuts. Bake Millie Peartree’s sweet potato poundcake, just because it’s good for the soul.
But! Festive frenzy aside, you still have to make dinner at the end of long days of work, school, assorted events, planning, shopping, blah, blah, blah. That’s where the recipes below come in: five especially delicious options for the week ahead and those to come.
And one last note: I was recently on “The Wirecutter Show,” an excellent new podcast from my colleagues over at Wirecutter, to talk about home cooking and our “Easy Weeknight Dinners” cookbook. You can listen to the episode here. I was also on “The Dinner Plan,” another podcast, chatting about NYT Cooking, what I stock in my refrigerator and my weeknight go-tos. Listen here.
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I’m also making:
Tomato-Parmesan soup, sheet-pan grilled cheese, roasted honey nut squash and chickpeas with hot honey and spinach dip with garlic, yogurt and dill.
1. Coconut Curry Chickpeas With Pumpkin and Lime
I love a pantry recipe, and this one from Melissa Clark is up there with the very best. It calls for canned chickpeas, coconut milk, ginger, garlic and spices, which mingle and merge into a creamy, bright curry that’s perfect for a chilly night.
2. Sheet-Pan Chicken and Cheesy Broccoli
Shredded cheese: It’s the skeleton key for feeding many little kids, the topping that takes a meal from “noooo” to “OK, fine” (which, as a parent, I will take). Here, Kay Chun tosses a blanket of Cheddar and Parmesan onto roasted broccoli, which is paired with chicken thighs and drumsticks coated with Italian seasoning. This is surely a hit.
3. Pasta With Spicy Sausages, Tomatoes, Rosemary and Olives
Simple and perfect. You can fine-tune this pasta from Melissa to suit your needs: Use canned tomatoes instead of fresh; swap the spicy sausages for sweet; hold the olives till the very end so you can omit them for anyone who won’t appreciate them (keep them in for yourself, of course).
4. Baked Salmon and Dill Rice
I adore dill, and when I’ve got a feathery bunch in the refrigerator, I know I’m either making a dilly yogurt sauce (a dream with roast chicken or seafood) or an emerald pot of dill rice, which Naz Deravian pairs with salmon here for one-dish cooking. Add a vegetable on the side and dinner is done.
5. Sweet and Sour Cauliflower
Commenters are absolutely loving this new recipe from Hetty Lui McKinnon, a vegetarian version of the beloved Chinese American restaurant staple. The proudly loud sauce is the star here, and I’ll double it in case I want pan-fried tofu alongside the cauliflower.
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