Plus, a birthday ribeye and last-minute Fourth of July recipes |
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Readers, happy long weekend. Today in What We’re Cooking, our weekly recipe dispatch, we’re making showstopping mains. Instead of rolling the dice on a birthday gift, my boyfriend’s best friend did something smart: He got a stunning ribeye from the butcher. And that meant his gift was also my gift, so thank you, Stephen. As the steak whisperer, I’ve gotten my method down to a T. I loosely follow this recipe from Carla Lalli, covering every centimeter with salt and pepper, then searing the cut in a hissing cast-iron, rotating the steak every two minutes. Once it develops a crackly crust, I’ll lower the heat slightly, add in a fat knob of butter, and a few garlic cloves. Baste, baste, baste then rest, rest, rest. Carla says 15 minutes but I couldn’t wait more than 10.
Read on to see what else my coworkers are making at home, plus check out some last-minute Fourth of July recipes to add sparkle to your table.
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My colleagues are also sizzling up protein. Director of cooking Emma Laperruque rarely cooks meat at home, but felt a gravitational pull toward this Miso-Peanut Hibachi Chicken. “A hit with readers since it published, it kept popping up during my workdays,” she writes. It’s savory, charred, and hard to resist.
Editors also made salmon with dill chimichurri and staff-favorite broccoli salad. |
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BY JOE SEVIER AND PHOEBE FRY |
Summer is in full swing, and you need surefire crowd-pleasing Fourth of July recipes for the influx of relatives and friends about to descend on your backyard, patio, rooftop, or park blanket. We can help.
Out of the hundreds of summery recipes strewn across the site, we handpicked the ones we’d build our ideal holiday weekend menus around. If it’s potato salads, pasta salads, or seasonal fruit and vegetable salads; dips for lazy day snacking; critical cookout sides or newfangled ones we think anyone will love; or top-notch Fourth of July desserts you’re looking for, we’ve got you covered.
Or maybe you simply want to try kicking back in a hammock with your new shades and a refreshing pitcher of lemonade or easy sangria. The point is: However you celebrate Independence Day, there’s something here worth gathering friends for. |
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| Broccoli Spoon Salad With Warm Vinaigrette |
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