Shit! What’s for Dinner?
Here’s What You Should Cook This Week
Baked ziti with mushrooms, chicken cutlets with a quick pan sauce, and Spanish-style lentils with spinach
It’s inevitable that some days you haven’t planned dinner and the day sneaks up on you, which leads to the “Shit! What’s for dinner?” response. We have a few suggestions, whether it’s a spin on one of my favorites, something seasonal, something super fast and delicious, or a weeknight project worth the time.
This week’s picks start with a baked pasta: rich and gooey and always good for leftovers. And yes, baked ziti is comforting (something we’ll need more of in these days before the election and with the Covid uptick across the country). Be sure not to overcook the pasta; it should be too tough to actually eat when you mix it with the sauce, which will make it perfect after baking.
We also have a dependable, rich, and rather elegant chicken cutlet with a quick pan sauce, which, really, you can do with any cutlet — turkey, pork, veal, or fish. And the third is a lentil dish, which comes with some advice: Yes, follow the recipe — but trust your teeth, not the clock, to tell you when the lentils are ready.
