Here’s hoping you get exactly what you want. That might be crazily delicious, buttery pancakes (above), or a lunchtime Negroni. Maybe it’s cute gifts from the children or flowers from your spouse. Maybe it’s not. But I do hope mothers everywhere also get a few hours to themselves, entirely free of responsibility, able to do whatever they desire.
As for dinner, let’s have roast chicken the way André Soltner intended, with these insanely delicious puréed potatoes with lemon and a bunch of green beans that have been tossed in olive oil and roasted on a sheet pan below the chicken. That’s a righteous Sunday supper.
As for the rest of the week …
Monday
This recipe for spicy red pesto pasta is one to bring you into the sun-dried tomato game, especially if you’ve avoided them since the time when sun-dried tomatoes were everywhere and rarely used to the benefit of the ingredients paired alongside. No longer!
Tuesday
Here’s dinner in 15 minutes if you’re good at peeling shrimp, and 10 minutes if you cook it with scallops instead: spicy shrimp and chickpea salad. Do read the notes below the recipe. Our subscribers have made some fascinating substitutions and hacks.
Wednesday
What I love about this slow-cooker lemony chicken soup is that it’s just as good after a sunny day as it is after a brisk and rainy one. And it’s excellent with store-bought tortellini stirred in at the end.
Thursday
Can you improve on spaghetti carbonara? Maybe. Try artichoke carbonara, in which Anna Francese Gass takes the quintessential Roman dish and adds another Roman favorite to it, artichoke hearts heated in the rendered fat of the guanciale. True story: If you use canned artichokes, the dish will come together in under 30 minutes.
Friday
And then you can cook a dish our Florence Fabricant adapted from one she learned from her mother: chicken roasted with oranges and onions. (Florence’s mom cooked it with veal.) I think that would make for a lovely introduction to the weekend.
