Sesame
Recipes
Dan dan noodles, served cold on purpose
The sesame and chile sauce is bossy enough to work as a dressing, so the noodles never need to be hot.
Peanut pork with shredded Brussels
A formula rather than a recipe. Ground meat, a vegetable shredded fine, a peanut sauce built in the empty half of the pan.
One-pot shrimp udon with lime
Nothing gets drained, so the starch off the noodles thickens the sauce for you.
Miso-sesame vinaigrette, good on almost anything
The jar in the fridge door you reach for without thinking.
Smashed cucumbers and chicken, no stove required
Take your aggression out on a cucumber. It is good for you both.
Grape tomatoes in kimchi drag
Snappy tomatoes in a fire-bright gochugaru dressing. Kimchi flavor without the wait.
Smashed cucumbers, bruised on purpose
The salad you'll make unprompted. Bring a heavy knife.
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.