Easy
Cuban-style black beans and rice
Canned black beans cooked down with a quick sofrito of onion, pepper and garlic, over white rice. A cheap weeknight pot with no meat that still feeds four.
50 min · 4 servings
Recipes
Two tracks. Easy meals for a regular night. Hard meals for when you've got an afternoon and want to learn something.
Hard
Buttermilk fried chicken
Bone-in chicken soaked in salted buttermilk, dredged, and fried in a Dutch oven with the oil kept in range. Where it goes wrong is written down step by step.
1 h 25 min · 4 servings (8 pieces)
HardMade up
Dashi and sofrito braised pork shoulder
Pork shoulder marinated in sour orange mojo, braised in sofrito and dashi until it falls apart, then served over rice with a quick chow-chow to cut the fat.
4 h 15 min · 6 servings, with leftovers that reheat well
EasyMade up
Miso ground pork and collards over rice
Ground pork browned hard, collard greens cut thin enough to cook in minutes, and miso stirred in at the end. A one-skillet weeknight bowl I made up.
40 min · 4 servings
Easy
Sheet-pan chicken thighs and potatoes
Bone-in chicken thighs and potatoes on one sheet pan. A short grocery list, one pan to wash, and the USDA safe temperature so you know when it is done.
1 h 10 min · 4 servings