Good morning! Today we have for you:
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A bread pudding that’s proudly pumpkiny
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A one-pan chicken dinner with golden potatoes
Hi, friends. I know I start many newsletters with “I love” and then a food: I love fish, I love corn, I love rice. As repetitive as that may seem, I can promise you it’s all true! I really do love a lot of food. (That’s kind of why I work here, and since you subscribe to this newsletter, I’m guessing you love a lot of food too.)
So here’s another: I love pumpkin. When my weekend allows, I’ll buy a whole kabocha, split it in half and bake it cut-side down until its kindergarten-orange flesh is soft enough to scoop into my food processor and purée into sweet smush. This way I have pumpkin to use throughout the week, in pastas, curries and so many treats.
Yossy Arefi’s pumpkin bread pudding is a part of our collection of 21 easy pumpkin desserts, but I’d absolutely eat this — or baked pumpkin doughnuts or pumpkin crumb cake — for breakfast, especially on these (relatively) calm weekends before the super fun happy slide into the holidays.
Yossy’s dish calls for an entire can (15 ounces) of pumpkin purée and a couple of tablespoons of pumpkin spice; I absolutely plan on swapping out that spice blend for something that suits my whims. Maybe a mix of cardamom and ginger? Five-spice? Or maybe Melissa Clark’s sweet baking spice, which splits the difference between pumpkin pie spice and apple pie spice. That’s something I love about pumpkin — it’s very versatile.
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Pumpkin Bread Pudding
Today’s specials
One-pan chicken with golden potatoes: The name of this Noor Murad recipe really tells you everything you need to know, don’t you think? The “golden” part comes from turmeric and, I’d like to think, the warmth of the cumin and paprika and the color of that crisp chicken skin. Add a pile of arugula or baby kale dressed with olive oil and lemon and dinner is done.
Sheet-pan roasted mushrooms and spinach: Is this Millie Peartree dish a simple but elegant side for pan-seared steak or salmon? Is it, spooned on top of scrambled eggs, a lovely brunch? Over toasted bread with melted cheese, is it a very nice sandwich? With cooked grains or beans tossed in, is it a hearty lunch bowl? You decide!
Cottage cheese bread: Every so often, I get the urge to bake my own bread. This is usually not inspired by any sort of proud homesteading leanings but instead by a recipe that looks and sounds so, so good. Carolina Gelen’s cottage cheese bread, with its tender crumb and added protein, is nudging me to block off time on Sunday to make my own soft, golden loaf, and I will oblige.
And before you go
You know how some actors make such an impression in a role that it’s hard to separate the two in your mind? That’s the case for me with Jesse Plemons and the terrifying character he played in “Breaking Bad.” (I’m also still slightly scared of Bryan Cranston.) So it’s a real relief to watch him do something as wholesome as make spaghetti and meatballs in the New York Times Cooking kitchen studio with Emma Stone. Click here or on the image below to read their interview and watch the video:
Thanks for reading!
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