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A loaf of dark-crusted banana bread on parchment, sliced to show a tender amber crumb.

Breakfast & Brunch

Brown Butter Banana Bread

Browning the butter takes seven extra minutes and turns ordinary banana bread into something you keep going back to. The whole-wheat flour and a fat pinch of salt do the rest.

70 min · serves 1 loaf

A fillet of salmon with a deeply caramelized miso glaze, plated over white coconut rice and scattered with sesame and scallion.

Mains

Miso-Glazed Salmon with Coconut Rice

A high-broiler trick that gets you the lacquered top of a restaurant glaze without the marinating-overnight song and dance. Coconut rice underneath catches every drip.

28 min · serves 4

A dark chocolate cake with a glossy crackled top, sprinkled with flaky salt and dusted with powdered sugar.

Desserts

Chocolate Olive Oil Cake with Flaky Salt

Dense, fudgy, dairy-free, and made with whatever decent olive oil you have on the counter. The flaky salt on top is the entire personality of the cake.

45 min · serves 1 9-inch cake

A whole roast chicken with crisp golden-brown skin in a cast iron pan, surrounded by halved potatoes and lemon wedges.

Mains

Lemon-Herb Roast Chicken with Schmaltz Potatoes

A dry-brined, high-heat roast chicken with potatoes cooked underneath in the rendered fat. The skin shatters; the potatoes are obscene.

90 min · serves 4

A rectangular puff pastry tart topped with deeply golden caramelized onions and melted gruyère, cut into squares.

Mains

Caramelized Onion & Gruyère Tart

Three pounds of yellow onions, an hour of slow heat, and a sheet of all-butter puff. With a green salad and a glass of cold white, it's dinner.

90 min · serves 6 as a starter

A stack of chocolate chip cookies with golden crisp edges, gooey chocolate centers, and flaky salt on top.

Desserts

Brown-Butter Toffee Chocolate Chip Cookies

Brown butter, brown sugar, dark chocolate chunks, and a 24-hour rest in the fridge. Worth every minute of waiting.

34 min · serves 18 cookies

A thick slice of toasted sourdough piled with deep red roasted tomatoes and a torn ball of creamy burrata, finished with basil.

Snacks & Sides

Slow-Roasted Tomato & Burrata Toast

Cherry tomatoes spend ninety low-and-slow minutes in olive oil with garlic and a few branches of thyme. Pile them on charred sourdough with cold burrata; eat outside.

100 min · serves 4 generous toasts

A shallow bowl of creamy pale-green risotto studded with bright peas, finished with shaved parmesan and torn mint leaves.

Mains

Spring Pea Risotto with Mint

Frozen peas are a kitchen miracle. Half get blended into the broth to give the risotto its color and sweetness; the rest are stirred in at the end so they stay green.

40 min · serves 4