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3 Favorites for the Week Before a Holiday

Make it easy on yourself as you focus on Thanksgiving prep

Mark Bittman

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Nov 16, 2020

Pasta with broccoli and sausage — Photo: Romulo Yanes

As you’re finalizing your Thanksgiving menu, this is the week to cook recipes you know with your eyes closed — those family go-tos or the ones for ingredients on-hand. Here’s a collection of mine — a favorite pasta, a knockout chicken stew (make enough for leftovers), my mother’s sausage and peppers, and Kate’s egg in a hole — an ideal breakfast-for-dinner that allows for riffs like dressing it in fresh herbs, tomato sauce, salsa, or whatever inspires you.

Chicken Stew So Good You’ll Eat It for Days

Winging it in the kitchen

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This Is the Sauce I Make Most Often

Here’s my version of pasta with broccoli and sausage

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It’s a Good Time for Sausage and Peppers

Here’s my mother’s once-a-week dish

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Here’s the Dish to Cook When You Really Don’t Want to Cook

But you also don’t want takeout

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3 Favorites for the Week Before a Holiday

Make it easy on yourself as you focus on Thanksgiving prep

Chicken Stew So Good You’ll Eat It for Days

Winging it in the kitchen

This Is the Sauce I Make Most Often

Here’s my version of pasta with broccoli and sausage

It’s a Good Time for Sausage and Peppers

Here’s my mother’s once-a-week dish

Here’s the Dish to Cook When You Really Don’t Want to Cook

But you also don’t want takeout

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Written by Mark Bittman

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3 Favorites for the Week Before a Holiday

Make it easy on yourself as you focus on Thanksgiving prep

Chicken Stew So Good You’ll Eat It for Days

Winging it in the kitchen

This Is the Sauce I Make Most Often

Here’s my version of pasta with broccoli and sausage

It’s a Good Time for Sausage and Peppers

Here’s my mother’s once-a-week dish

Here’s the Dish to Cook When You *Really* Don’t Want to Cook

But you also don’t want takeout

Published in Heated

Written by Mark Bittman

Responses (1)

Here’s the Dish to Cook When You Really Don’t Want to Cook