Beef
Recipes
Flautas with sweet potato grated into the beef
Not deep fried. Sprayed with oil and baked until the shell goes properly to pieces when you bite it.
Smashburgers pressed into rye
Half smashburger, half grilled cheese and better than either for refusing to pick one.
A burger with fig in the onions
The buns finish face down in the pan the beef just left. That is where the whole argument is settled.
Udon baked, never boiled
The noodles go into the dish raw with the sauce and drink it. Boiling them first only teaches them to drink water.
Birria without the eight-hour braise
The dip is the point, so it gets built in the pan the beef browned in. Nothing is stirred into warm water.
Gochujang-glazed meatloaf with delicata squash
Fifteen minutes of prep, and the squash needs no peeling whatsoever.
Pomegranate beef pitas
Ten minutes of assembly, then the oven. The syrup at the end is what makes it.
Sour cherry and chipotle meatloaf
Jam in the glaze, and a warm potato salad made in the same twenty minutes.
Harissa beef pitas, tray to table
Raw beef goes into the sauce and the oven does the rest. No browning, no pan.
Sheet-pan meatloaf and roast vegetables
Shaped free-form on a tray, not packed into a tin, and better for it.
Achaar beef with curry-spiced rice
Sweet raisins in the rice, sour pickle in the beef, and a cool green sauce to referee.
Beef noodles, sweet then immediately not
The sauce is three jars you already own, whisked in the time the water boils.
Crispy gnocchi and beef on whipped miso ricotta
Beef browned to rubble, gnocchi gone golden, sprouts charred nearly black, all of it dragged through a cool miso ricotta.
The long way to Bolognese
Milk first, then wine, then the laziest three-hour simmer there is.
Harissa bolognese, baked in one pan
Bolognese that ran off to Tunis and came back smoking.
New Mexican hot dish, stacked not rolled
Enchiladas that gave up on rolling and lay down in layers instead.
Bulgogi bolognese
The bulgogi marinade was a ragù all along. Soy, sugar and garlic, simmered down slow.
Smashed beef kebab over cucumber yogurt
Sear the beef like a scallop. Let the yogurt catch it.
Sloppy joes back from Seoul
The same sweet, sloppy sandwich, with fermented chile where the ketchup was.
Featured
Tomato sauce so simple you'll die
Marcella's three ingredients, one of which you bin, and a fourth she never sanctioned.
A ricotta pasta that begs to be messed with
Stir it in a bowl while the water boils, then fiddle until it tastes like yours.
Gnocchi baked with corn and a goat cheese heart
A whole round of goat cheese goes in last and collapses into the sauce.