I’m likely not the first person to have this thought, but: New Year resolutions should start in February. January is too busy and stressful. After recovering from and packing up the holidays, we have to get back into the swing of work and school. January, to paraphrase Jim Hopper, should be for coffee and contemplation, for recharging the batteries and thinking about what we want to do in the coming year. Then, in February, we can get down to doing those things.
So now is the time to wholeheartedly dive into my “make sure to eat breakfast” goal, using this collection of 14 easy healthy breakfasts as a checklist. Cathy Lo, one of our brilliant recipe editors here at New York Times Cooking, put together this list to suit all sorts of breakfast needs. Want a rush of vitamins in the morning? Have a green smoothie. Looking for a savory breakfast that isn’t eggs? Hetty Lui McKinnon’s butternut squash congee comforts and fortifies.
As for myself, I need something I can assemble the night before that uses up the odds and ends of my bulk bin escapades and is good eaten cold. (I don’t have a microwave and I’m far too lazy to take out a saucepan before 10 a.m.) Hello, Genevieve Ko’s overnight oats.
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Overnight Oats
While poking through our various recipe collections on NYT Cooking, I rediscovered this list of dinners with seven ingredients or fewer assembled by Krysten Chambrot. There are some real gems in here, like Nargisse Benkabbou’s skillet chicken with turmeric and orange, neon in both color and flavor, and Yewande Komolafe’s warming spicy peanut and pumpkin soup. If you have some seaweed snack sheets kicking around, you’re one-sixth of the way to this sunshiney roasted lemony fish with brown butter, capers and nori, a beautiful recipe by Danielle Alvarez adapted by Melissa Clark.
Lastly, have we talked about this éclair cake yet? Naz Deravian’s take on a popular Midwestern dessert uses a streamlined crème légère (a fluffy mix of pastry cream and whipped cream) to layer with and soften graham crackers; a thick blanket of chocolate ganache coats the whole affair. Serve this as dessert at your next dinner shindig, keeping the leftovers for yourself as a glorious breakfast with very strong coffee and orange wedges.
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