Your Next Weeknight Meal Plan (And Weekend Cooking Project!)

What to Cook Next Week No Images? Click here   After a busy day, the last thing you want to do is spend hours in the kitchen pulling dinner together. Luckily, we have a wealth of delicious weeknight meals that will have you in and out of the kitchen in one hour or less. Meet our weekly dinner plan: Five easy dinners for five busy weeknights, all sent in advance so you can get your shopping done ahead of time. Cook along with us!   Your Week Ahead MONDAY Pasta alla Gricia Cure your case of the Mondays with this under-appreciated Roman pasta dish: pasta alla gricia. The simple rigatoni dressed in a silky emulsion of rich guanciale fat and starchy pasta water is minimalist perfection.   TUESDAY Stir-Fried Farro With Garlicky Kale and Poached Egg Tender farro, sautéed kale, and a perfectly poached egg. If that's not a damn good breakfast-for-dinner, we don't know what is. WEDNESDAY Pressure Cooker Chicken, Lentil, and Bacon Stew With Carrots Break out your Instant Pot—we're getting you over that mid-week hump with one of our easiest stews ever. It'll make great leftovers for lunch tomorrow, too. THURSDAY Quick and Easy Skillet Tamale Pie With Brown Butter Cornbread Crust Imagine your favorite chili. Now imagine that chili topped with tender, moist, crisp-edged, buttery cornbread with those chili juices seeping up into it as it bakes in the oven. That's the kind of meal we'd love to come home to after a long day out in the cold. Wouldn't you? FRIDAY Extra-Crispy Bar-Style Tortilla Pizza Bar pies are the pizza for those who love thin crusts, and while making them from scratch is doable, sometimes you just need that pizza NOW. Tortilla-based pizzas are the ideal way to make a super-crisp, extra-thin crust for a full-on pizza experience in under 15 minutes from start to finish.     Your Weekend Project Ah, the weekend. Visions of time-consuming kitchen endeavors dancing in your head all week long, and finally you have the time to pursue them. But which one to choose? Let us help you guide your efforts with what we're taking on over the weekend.  Nutella and Brown Butter Rugelach With Peanuts and Vanilla Glaze Yup, it's Hanukkah next week. And what better way to celebrate than getting your rugelach made and ready for Monday night? We love this nutella and brown butter version, which hints at the most delicious sundaes of your childhood.     Serious Eats 88 35th St Ste 602 Brooklyn, NY 11232-2017 Click Preferences to control which emails you receive from Serious Eats. Clicking Unsubscribe will remove you from all Serious Eats emails…which would be sad. Preferences  |  Unsubscribe

How to Make Homemade Ramen Noodles

Your Recipe of the Day No Images? Click here Homemade Ramen Noodles You can't have a bowl of ramen without wheat-based alkaline noodles, and while it's possible to purchase high-quality noodles from noodle manufacturers like Sun Noodle, you can also make very good noodles at home. These noodles are meant for use in shoyu ramen and miso tori paitan, but they can feasibly be used with most any ramen recipe, although they are best paired with relatively light-bodied broths. Read More → The Kitchen Essential Pasta Roller Running the dough sheets repeatedly through a pasta roller both develops a strong gluten network and aligns it horizontally along the sheet, giving the noodles their bite. Shop Now   Serious Eats 88 35th St Ste 602 Brooklyn, NY 11232 Click Preferences to control which emails you receive from Serious Eats. Clicking Unsubscribe will remove you from all Serious Eats emails…which would be sad. Preferences  |  Unsubscribe

Ask Daniel and Stella Your Holiday Cooking Questions!

We're here to help No Images? Click here   We Want Your Holiday Cooking Questions As the December holidays approach, we’re planning a brand-new episode of Ask Special Sauce, starring recipe developers Daniel Gritzer and Stella Parks, and all your most pressing holiday cooking questions! Email us the whole story at specialsauce@seriouseats.com and your cooking conundrum just might get featured on Special Sauce.  Send us your questions by 12/8/18 if you want to be included in the show.   Serious Eats 88 35th St Ste 602 Brooklyn, NY 11232 Click Preferences to control which emails you receive from Serious Eats. Clicking Unsubscribe will remove you from all Serious Eats emails…which would be sad. Preferences  |  Unsubscribe

Our Favorite Splurge-Worthy Gifts for Cooks and Food Lovers

For Those Who've Been Extra Good! No Images? Click here   Our Favorite Splurge-Worthy Gifts for Cooks and Food Lovers Last week, we scoured the world of cookware to find and share our favorite gifts under $50 and under $100. These affordable presents are a good reminder that buying essential kitchen goods doesn't have to leave you without money for groceries. But we know that sometimes you want to give someone a real showstopper, a splurge gift to blow all other gifts out of the water. Here are some of our favorites. If you need more inspiration, you'll find a lot more cookware and useful kitchen tools right here in our gift guide.   Breville Ice Cream Machine Our favorite compressor ice cream maker, made by Breville, comes fully loaded with 12 hardness settings and precool and keep-cool options, as well as classic ice cream truck tunes that alert you when your ice cream is done churning. A song to celebrate ice cream made well? Yes, please.   The Finest Belgian-Waffle Maker​ We tested over a dozen waffle makers, and this super-swanky number from All-Clad was a clear winner. If your giftee swears by crisp-on-the-outside, fluffy-on-the-inside Belgian-style waffles with deep divots for luscious toppings, this is the machine to make them smile. (PS: It's on sale today!)    Deluxe Digital Electric Smoker​ Treat the griller and smoker in your life to this WiFi-enabled electric smoker. It's about as "set it and forget it" as it gets, delivering all the notifications you need to your smartphone, while delivering impressively professional results.     A Crumb-Free Kitchen​ Use this miracle handheld vacuum to gather up pesky crumbs between your stove and dishwasher or dropped nibbles after a dinner party. It's so powerful that it makes cleaning—gasp!—actually fun. The Best Dutch Oven​ A good enameled cast iron Dutch oven is made to last. And when it's made by a time-honored brand like Le Creuset, you can bet it'll be as beautifully made as it is useful and durable. Tuck one of these under the tree (or the Hanukkah bush) this year to guarantee the recipient a lifetime of braises and stews, crusty breads, and so much more. See the Rest Right Here     Serious Eats 88 35th St Ste 602 Brooklyn, NY 11232 Click Preferences to control which emails you receive from Serious Eats. Clicking Unsubscribe will remove you from all Serious Eats emails…which would be sad. Preferences  |  Unsubscribe

The Perfect Lacy-Edged Potato Latkes

Your Recipe of the Day No Images? Click here Old-Fashioned Latkes Great latkes take some time and preparation, but with the right technique and tools, they're easy to master. These ingredient amounts aren't law; depending on the moisture content of your potatoes, you may need more or less binder, or a different balance of eggs and matzo meal. What's important is that the latke patties don't fall apart in your hands, or they certainly will in the pan. Start with a little egg and matzo meal, then add only as much as you need. Read More → The Kitchen Essential Cast Iron Skillet Frying in a cast iron pan results in a deeper, more burnished crust, and requires less adjustment of the flame due to its superior heat retention. Shop Now   Serious Eats 88 35th St Ste 602 Brooklyn, NY 11232 Click Preferences to control which emails you receive from Serious Eats. Clicking Unsubscribe will remove you from all Serious Eats emails…which would be sad. Preferences  |  Unsubscribe