Good morning. Purple finches have come to our bird feeder lately, eating after the cardinals have had their fill and before the red-winged blackbirds arrive. They whomp on the sunflower seeds and I feel as I do when I’ve served something to the children that they particularly like, as if I’ve achieved something, if only by chance.
Dutch babies, eggy batter poured into a hot pan filled with butter, are an example of that. They’re served either sweet (as in this caramel apple version) or savory (with bacon and runny Camembert). It’s a fulfilling magic trick, to serve Dutch babies. Watch them disappear!
Today, I’m excited to make Yewande Komolafe’s new recipe for a goat cheese and dill Dutch baby (above), topped with crunchy watercress and dressed with drizzles of honey and lemon juice. You could try it for brunch, I suppose, but I’m thinking of it for a dinner service before an early bedtime. Wimbledon begins tomorrow at 6 a.m., Eastern time!
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Goat Cheese and Dill Dutch Baby
As for the rest of the week. …
Monday
I like the vibrancy of Naz Deravian’s recipe for lemon spaghetti with roasted artichokes, with its silky, salty-acidic sauce of lemon juice and zest with Parmesan cheese and plenty of basil. It’s terrific served over a bed of baby arugula and, if you have some on hand, bread crumbs add a lovely texture to the finished dish.
Tuesday
Independence Day! The menu calls for hot dogs, burgers, early corn, macaroni salad and, I’m hoping, my recipe for barbecued chicken before you dig into some ice cream and fall asleep on a blanket in the grass. The American experiment continues.
Wednesday
Here’s a recipe from Hetty McKinnon that calls for two pantry heroes worth highlighting: frozen Asian dumplings and fragrant chile crisp. Hetty brings them together in this lovely dumpling tomato salad with chile crisp vinaigrette. No dumplings? You might try gnocchi or Korean rice cakes instead. No chile crisp? Make your own!
Thursday
Ali Slagle’s recipe for tofu and asparagus with frizzled leeks is an almost-no-cook vegan meal that offers a thrilling mixture of textures and flavors: smooth tofu, sweet, papery leeks and crunchy asparagus in a salty miso-based vinaigrette. I like it over soba noodles, myself.
Friday
Head into the weekend with Kay Chun’s recipe for Korean barbecue-style meatballs. Kay calls for crushed Ritz crackers to bulk and bind the ground beef, but panko wouldn’t be a bad substitute if you don’t like putting on the Ritz.
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Now, it’s a far cry from anything to do with snap peas or red currants, but 75 years after The New Yorker published Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery,” our Scott Heller talked to 14 writers and filmmakers about what they thought when they read it for the first time, and why the story has stuck with them.
The Guardian is also in a reflective mood and put Rowan Moore on an appraisal of the architect Le Corbusier 100 years after Corbusier published his manifesto for modernism, “Vers Une Architecture” (which Frederick Etchells rendered as “Towards a New Architecture” in his 1927 translation).
Nicholas Hune-Brown, in The Walrus, examined the changing culture of libraries in Canada as they steer into the challenge of being “the last public space.”
Finally, here’s Lindsay Zoladz in The Amplifier newsletter, writing about the Cure’s live shows in New York last week and offering an ace Spotify playlist to go along with the words. Listen to that while you’re cooking. I’ll be back on Friday.
