SidesBeer-Battered Onion Rings
Cold beer, a lumpy batter and oil that never drops below 180°C. The bubbles in the beer are doing structural work, so mix it at the last possible moment.
40 minServes 4Medium
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SnacksHot Dogs with Quick Pickled Onions
Score the sausages, steam the buns, and make a quick pickled onion. Three small steps that take a hot dog from stadium food to something you would serve on purpose.
25 minServes 4Easy
PizzaNew York-Style Pepperoni Pizza
A larger, thinner, foldable slice with a cooked sauce and low-moisture mozzarella. Use cup-and-char pepperoni and it curls into little pools of paprika oil.
26 hrServes 4Medium
BreakfastBreakfast Tacos with Egg and Cheese
Soft-scrambled eggs pulled off the heat while still glossy, folded into warm corn tortillas with melted cheese and a sharp salsa to cut through it.
25 minServes 4Easy
MainsSalmon and Avocado Maki Rolls
The rice is the dish. Season it while it is hot, cool it to body temperature, and never refrigerate it — cold rice goes hard and the rolls fall apart.
1 hr 15 minServes 4Hard
SnacksSalt and Pepper Squid
Cornflour rather than batter, so the coating stays light and shatters. Squid cooks in ninety seconds — past that it turns to rubber and never comes back.
30 minServes 4Medium
SnacksFried Sardines with Lemon
Whole sardines in seasoned flour, shallow-fried hard and hit with lemon. Cheap, sustainable, and better than most things three times the price.
25 minServes 4Easy
SnacksTortilla Chips with Salsa and Guacamole
Corn tortillas baked rather than fried, plus a raw pico de gallo and a guacamole that is mashed, never blended.
35 minServes 6Easy