Good morning. It’s Mom’s Day weekend for all those that rejoice, which is many people, even when she’s been gone a number of years now and didn’t like the vacation anyway. Mother’s getting youthful, in reminiscence, and we’re getting older to satisfy her on the move. The connection’s deepening. It’s simpler to grasp a few of her tics and motivations now, her factors of view.
As an illustration: What a trouble this vacation is, with its pressured cheer, overpriced restaurant mimosas and saccharine greeting playing cards. Higher to remain house, take a look at previous footage and prepare dinner scrumptious issues. We’ll get to tea sandwiches and cucumber sandwiches for Sunday brunch. Within the meantime, although, how a couple of platter of three-cup hen (above) for dinner tonight?
That is Taiwanese house cooking of distinction, easy and flavorful, straightforward to riff on and wonderful alongside a pile of fluffy rice. (The identify comes from the three liquids used to taste the dish: sesame oil, soy sauce and rice wine.) Check out the feedback readers added to the recipe. My favourite: “I made a mistake by studying everybody’s notes first to see the variations and ideas. I lastly adopted the unique recipe and all I can let you know is that I can’t wait to prepare dinner it once more. Among the finest!”
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Then, come morning, you may ship mom breakfast in mattress. Doing so on Saturday in addition to Sunday is a professional transfer: She received’t see the primary one coming, and the pleasures of which might be uncommonly high quality.
On this endeavor, Melissa Clark’s French toast protocol is value following. Go shortcut-style on Saturday, together with her brown sugar sheet-pan French toast, crisped on the edges, after which observe it up the subsequent day together with her spectacular showstopper model of the identical dish: lemon soufflé French toast. It’s only one man’s opinion, however each needs to be accompanied by recent berries and oven-crisped bacon.
Different issues to prepare dinner this weekend: a curried roast hen with grapefruit, honey and thyme; recent and wild mushroom stew; bulgogi-style tofu; and a strawberry and cream layer cake for dessert on Sunday night time, after, say, a Waldorf salad. Right here’s to you, Mother!
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Now, it’s a far cry from something to do with rhubarb or molasses, however my Dennis Lehane kick continues. I believed I’d reread his 2001 crime novel, “Mystic River,” however doing so made me understand I’d truly by no means learn the e book, I’d solely seen the 2003 film, which I cherished. The novel’s nice!
Additionally on the legal beat, “Ship Me,” a brand new restricted sequence on Netflix that’s set in Sweden. Youngsters in serious trouble, adults making an attempt to assist (and hurt), with heaps and plenty of “[tense music builds slowly].”
The artist Frank Stella died final week at 87. Peter Schjeldahl wrote about him for The New Yorker. “What you see is what you see,” Stella famously stated. Right here’s Schjeldahl on that: “His was a formalist gospel, forbidding interpretation.”
Lastly, there’s a brand new Miranda Lambert single, “Wranglers.” It’s traditional Lambert. She units these denims on hearth. (They take endlessly to burn.) Take pleasure in that when you’re cooking and I’ll see you on Sunday.
