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 Spanish Pasta Salad Put any doubts you have about pasta salad aside, and trust us on this one. Crispy chorizo, sautéed garlic, roasted piquillo peppers, fresh parsley, and lemon zest come together with macaroni noodles to make a pasta salad you'll want to make again and again.   TUESDAY Roasted Eggplant With Tahini, Pine Nuts, and Lentils We’re big fans of roasted eggplant, so we’re all for a recipe that makes a meal of it. In this dish, we pair roasted eggplant halves with lentils cooked with celery, carrots, and onion, and top it all off with a sauce made of tahini, lemon juice, garlic, and cumin. WEDNESDAY Peruvian-Style Grilled-Chicken Sandwiches With Spicy Green Sauce Frankly, we could eat this creamy jalapeño sauce by the spoonful, but at dinnertime, we're equally happy to eat it in grilled-chicken sandwiches. The sauce gets generously spread on ciabatta, which is then topped with avocado, red onion, lettuce, and the seasoned grilled chicken.  THURSDAY Spicy Cumin Lamb Skewers (Yang Rou Chuan) For obvious reasons, grilled skewered meat is a go-to dinner for us this time of year, and we can't get enough of these Beijing street food–style lamb skewers. Before their quick stint on the grill, lamb shoulder chops are cut and seasoned with cumin, chili flakes, fennel seed, and Shaoxing wine. FRIDAY Fish Po' Boys Po' boys make a perfectly balanced meal, if you ask us. The balance achieved by pairing crispy cornmeal-crusted fillets of tilapia, crunchy pickles, lettuce, and tomatoes with generously applied creamy rémoulade—all in a baguette—is really rather remarkable.      Your Weekend Project Ah, the weekend. Visions of time-consuming kitchen endeavors have been dancing in your head all week long, and finally you have the time to pursue them. But which one to choose? Let us guide your efforts with what we're taking on over the weekend.  Ultra-Crispy Slow-Roasted Pork Shoulder This slow-roasted pork shoulder is everything you could want, both flavor- and texture-wise. First you cook it on low for eight hours to get tender, pull-apart meat. Then you finish it at 500°F for the crispiest skin. If you want to serve it with a sauce, go for a barbecue sauce or chimichurri.       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

Oh Hello, Homemade Nutella

Your Recipe of the Day No Images? Click here Homemade Nutella (Creamy Chocolate-Hazelnut Spread) Homemade brittle gives this chocolate-hazelnut spread a mellow sweetness, with notes of caramel to bring out its nutty complexity. Like its commercial inspiration, this version is silky-smooth, but if you're craving a more dynamic texture, try our Crispy Homemade Nutella instead. Read More → The Kitchen Essential Food Processor Send the bits of chocolate-hazelnut brittle through a food processor with a splash of water to achieve the perfect creamy, spreadable texture. Shop Now   More Copycat Recipes for Weekend Projects Homemade Oreos Homemade Fig Newtons   Thin-and-Crispy Tate's-Style Cookies DIY Donettes     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

Flour Frosting: The Not-Too-Sweet Buttercream

Your Recipe of the Day No Images? Click here Flour Frosting (a.k.a. Ermine Frosting) Ermine frosting is an old-school buttercream made with just four ingredients: butter, sugar, flour, and milk (okay, six ingredients, if you count salt and vanilla). It feels as light and silky as whipped cream, but it's far more stable. It's also an easy, eggless alternative to European buttercreams, like Swiss and Italian, but it's substantially less sweet than American buttercream. Read More → The Kitchen Essential Balloon Whisk Use a whisk to mix the flour and milk until smooth, then boil them together to ensure the flour is fully cooked and eliminate its starchy flavor to form a thick, roux-like paste. Shop Now   Cakes Ready for Frosting Classic Vanilla Butter Cake BraveTart's Devil's Food Cake   Double-Strawberry Cake Brown Butter Carrot Cake     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

Just for Him! No Images? Click here   Our Favorite Gifts for Father’s Day​ Fun and useful kitchen gadgetry, outdoor-cooking tools, tasty snacks, and more Father's Day gifts for the culinarily minded dad. Get the full story here.   Spaghetti con la Colatura Gift Box​ Pick up this spaghetti colatura gift box from one of our favorite Italian-goods purveyors, Gustiamo. It comes with everything Dad will need to make the dish at home. Inside, you'll find a bottle of the aged fish sauce, rich extra-virgin olive oil, and spaghetti faella, a type of pasta that's rough and porous, so it's perfect for soaking up all of that sauce.   GrillGrates If your dad is an avid outdoor cook, get him a set of GrillGrates to amplify the heat on his current grill setup. These portable aluminum grates fit right over existing grates, their holes allowing just enough hot air and smoke to rise up from below while also trapping the heat underneath, so your dad can expect fantastic sear marks on his next steak. Baking Steel If you want to keep your dad happily turning out great Neapolitan-style pizza, he absolutely needs a Baking Steel—even if he already owns a pizza stone. Since the Baking Steel is made of metal, it conducts heat much faster (and retains it better) than stone, yielding a crisp, charred crust and perfectly melty cheese.   Cleaver This meat cleaver has a balanced weight, sharp edge, and solid construction. It'll allow Dad to handle all sorts of heavy-duty butchery tasks with ease, and he'll look (and feel) like a badass while using it. Get the whole story and more right here! Our Favorite Gifts for Father’s Day​ SPONSORED The Definitive Guide to Perfect Air-Fryer Wings       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