40 Ingredients Forever

Welcome to Dinner Tetris, an advice column here at 40 Ingredients Foreverwhere a reader shares the ingredients they always have on hand and I dream up three dinners using those ingredients. If you’d like your pantries Tetris-ed into dinner, head here. Samin Nosrat’s Tetris is here. Ham El-Waylly’s Tetris is here. A high-protein, high-fiber Tetris for subscriber Shayna is here.

I’ve been wanting to write about how the key to a good grain salad is using fewer grains. Ideally the ratio of stuff to grains is at least 2:1. Grains make great accessories, but when they take center stage, they can be too toothsome, too chewy — so substantial they create a dense salad. Tabbouleh already understood this. The Levantine dish with roots in Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine is an herb salad that has bulgur in it.

Hi everybody! We cannot live on tomatoes alone, as my partner reminded me the other day when he said “What about BBQ chicken? Pulled pork? A burger?” So I thought I’d recommend 7 days of dinner ideas that hit more than the salad spot. They’re a mix of staples that you can eat throughout the week and fast numbers to zip together at the last minute. There is salad. There is also a burger.

40 Ingredients Forever is devoted to recipes that are abundant in flavor and joy yet streamlined in process and shopping—because they’ll all be made using my 40 go-to ingredients. I should be honest about summer produce. First, I love it. See me gasping at tomatoes and corn like the next California girl who’s thrilled to have made it through another Northeast winter. But. Sometimes I struggle to make it into a meal?

Hello family cook, grocery shopper, and/or dishwasher — old friend or new subscriber, Save yourself the daily head-spin of what to make for dinner and start with these five posts, an introduction to 40 Ingredients Forever, which is a newsletter by me, Ali Slagle, devoted to dinners made with just my 40 go-to ingredients. The limit isn't a gimmick.

Welcome to Dinner Tetris, an advice column here at 40 Ingredients Foreverwhere a reader shares the ingredients they always have on hand and I dream up three dinners using those ingredients. If you’d like your pantries Tetris-ed into dinner, head here. Samin Nosrat’s Tetris is here. Ham El-Waylly’s Tetris is here. A high-protein, high-fiber Tetris for subscriber Shayna is here.

Maybe you know the white bean bake, AKA pizza beans. Or the black bean bake (enchilada beans). Or the green chile bean bake (queso beans). Or the French onion beans or harissa beans fromI Dream of Dinner. Behind all these recipes is a basic structure: saucy beans topped with melty, slouched, bubbling cheese. They all require only a skillet, flavorful sauce, cooked beans, cheese, and high heat. (Is it a casserole?

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Welcome to Dinner Tetris, an advice column here at 40 Ingredients Foreverwhere a reader shares the ingredients they always have on hand and I dream up three dinners using those ingredients. If you’d like your pantries Tetris-ed into dinner, head here. Samin Nosrat’s Tetris is here. Ham El-Waylly’s Tetris is here. A high-protein, high-fiber Tetris for subscriber Shayna is here. Occupation:Nikkitha Bakshani is an Indian-American writer living in London.

I tried counting how many meatball recipes I’ve developed, and then I lost count. Or rather, I got so embarrassed I stopped counting. That’s because there are many ways to play ball: change how you cook them, what you eat them with, and what seems to be my preference, what you can put in them. Making a meatball with a panade (a combination of starch, like breadcrumbs, and liquid, like milk) is meant to retain moisture for tenderness. It works unless it doesn’t.