Nonna's Sunday sauce, and why it takes all day
Short ribs, sausage and meatballs in one big pot of tomatoes, simmered until the bones slide out. It takes most of a Sunday, but you only work for the first hour.
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- Six weeknight dinners for October: It gets dark early and you want something warm on the table by seven. Here's a week of it, with one shopping trip and a soup you can make on Sunday.
- How to host eight without losing the evening: A dinner party menu where nearly everything is done before the doorbell rings. You get to sit down, and the food is better for the wait.
Editors' picks
- Nonna's Sunday Sauce: Short ribs, sausage and meatballs simmered in San Marzano tomatoes until the rib meat falls off the bone.
- Creamy Parmesan Polenta: Slow-stirred coarse polenta with butter and Parmigiano. The thing to spoon a braise over.
- Lemon Ricotta Cookies: Soft, cakey cookies with lemon zest in the dough and a sharp lemon glaze.
- Zuppa Toscana: Sausage, potatoes and kale in a creamy broth. Monday night in one pot.
- Weeknight Dal: Red lentils cooked soft with cumin, ginger and tomato. A pantry dinner in forty minutes.
- Sheet Pan Maple Dijon Salmon: Salmon brushed with maple, Dijon and tamari, roasted on one pan with a green vegetable.
- Butternut Squash Soup with Brown Butter Sage: Roasted squash blended smooth, with brown butter and crisp sage spooned over the top.
- Crispy Beef Tacos: Seasoned beef folded into corn tortillas and fried in a skillet until crisp.
What's good in October
Apples, squash, the first braise of the year and something warm in a mug.
- Rustic Apple Galette: A free-form apple tart with a buttery, pleated crust. No pie dish, no fuss about the edges.
- Butternut Squash Soup with Brown Butter Sage: Roasted squash blended smooth, with brown butter and crisp sage spooned over the top.
- Mulled Apple Cider: Fresh cider warmed with cinnamon, cloves, star anise and orange. Keep it on the stove all afternoon.
- Red Wine Braised Short Ribs: Short ribs braised in red wine until a fork slides through. Better the next day.
- Zuppa Toscana: Sausage, potatoes and kale in a creamy broth. Monday night in one pot.
Sunday suppers
Big pots and long afternoons, for the day you're home anyway.
- Nonna's Sunday Sauce: Short ribs, sausage and meatballs simmered in San Marzano tomatoes until the rib meat falls off the bone.
- Creamy Parmesan Polenta: Slow-stirred coarse polenta with butter and Parmigiano. The thing to spoon a braise over.
- Red Wine Braised Short Ribs: Short ribs braised in red wine until a fork slides through. Better the next day.
- Lemon Ricotta Cookies: Soft, cakey cookies with lemon zest in the dough and a sharp lemon glaze.