Good morning. I was in Portland, Ore., over the weekend, eating great food (at Han Oak and Kachinka, if you're wondering). The visit was a chance to talk to the chef Edward Lee about his book “Buttermilk Graffiti” at the Portland Book Festival. There was no cooking for me.
But I thought about what I would make when I got back. I thought about it a lot: karaage, Japanese fried chicken (above), with rice and eggs pickled in soy sauce, with lemons to squeeze over the chicken, with cucumbers and furikake to mix into the rice. Won’t you join me in cooking that, if not tonight then some night this week?
Of course you might prefer another dish. I like this warm kale, coconut and tomato salad that Anna Jones came up with a few years ago, and which makes for an astonishingly good dinner on a weeknight. Also, I’m enamored of Melissa Clark’s kale tabbouleh, which has a lot more kale in it than it does bulgur, and is very delicious.
I could see eating a sheet-pan dinner of trout and garlicky broccolini in place of the chicken (though I’m eating the chicken); you could always swap out the greens for halved cherry tomatoes.
Tuna poke? Braised chicken with artichokes and mushrooms, out of Peg Bracken’s “The I Hate to Cook Book,” as adapted by my old colleague Alex Witchel? (Alex profiled the Los Angeles chef Jessica Koslow for The Washington Post last week.) Maybe some slow-cooker chicken tacos with chipotle and honey? Or stir-fried cabbage with tofu and red peppers?
There are literally thousands of possibilities waiting for you on NYT Cooking. Go browse there and see what appeals. (You will need a subscription because subscriptions allow us to keep doing this, just as they allow Netflix to produce new Norwegian original series like “Ragnarok.”) Should anything go wrong while you’re looking and saving and organizing, either with the cooking or the technology, please get in touch. We’re at [email protected]. We’re also on Instagram and Facebook and Twitter. (As am I: @samsifton.)
Now, it’s a great distance from seitan if not from pleasure, but Lisa Yuskavage has concurrent shows up at David Zwirner this month: one of big new paintings and the other of small paintings made from 1985 to 2018. Come visit them.
In The New York Times Book Review, Tommy Orange urged us to read “Friday Black” by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. Not to put too fine a point on it, but he urged us to do that right now.
Finally, a reminder: Veterans Day is observed today, 100 years and one day after the end of World War I. I’ll take the opportunity to commend to you “At War,” a forum here at The Times, edited by Lauren Katzenberg, that documents the experiences and costs of armed conflict. (Here’s an example of the important work they do, from Zachary Bell.) See you on Wednesday.
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