Friday Eating & Reading

What I’m eating and reading this week:

You Don’t Need a Recipe! Have you seen this special section? It’s a collection of Sam Sifton’s “no-recipe” recipes culled from his popular cooking newsletter, and includes a few dozen recipes that are simple enough to improvise if you have the most basic skills and ingredients on hand. Think Roasted Fish with Ginger, Scallions, and Soy, or Savory French Toast with Basil and Tomatoes, or Steak Tacos with Pineapple Salsa, or that super cool looking Hasselback Kielbasa up there which is guaranteed to make you a hero in your own house. The print version, out on Sunday, is gonna be something you’ll want to keep around on the kitchen counter.

What else?

The author of Untangled, go-to guide for parents of teenage girls everywhere, has a new book out and I am all over it.

Trader Joe’s Hack: Personal Pot Pies

That podcast about the flame-out of Silicon Valley’s Elizabeth Holmes sent me down a rabbit hole ending here.

Speaking of frauds: A Suspense Novelist’s Trail of Deceptions

Meghan Markle cooks every day.

I’ll read anything about Christina Tosi. (Look at her bookshelves!)

On the Very Near Future line-up: Oven-Fried Hot Honey Chicken

9 Kitchen Tools Chefs Don’t Use Ever

What The Silver Palate taught us!

Dear Employers, Please Value ‘Camp Counselor’ on a resume.

Parenting: Job for life.

Photo credits: All pics by David Malosh for The New York Times