早上好。
每年此时，工作日总是那么美丽、清新而明朗。我在办公室收到熟识的钓友用手机传来的鱼儿被捕的精彩画面与图片。
可到了周六，一阵呼啸的东风迎面吹来，似乎预示着不断下落的潮水：波涛汹涌，这本应是我驾着小船追击鱼群的最佳场景，但此时并不如意。因为那里的鱼，无论何时，都踪迹全无。每到周末都是如此。如果我有机会写下关于钓鱼的回忆录，那么书名定会是《你该明白》。
餐后的美味烹饪确实能让人振奋精神，事前烹制同样令人愉悦。美食在这样的天气下能够提振人心，防止心生怒火，想要毁掉钓竿，转而投身于更可靠且满足感更强的休闲活动里去，比如观赏机场降落的飞机，或者修补鞋子。
晚餐我选择了达尔·泰尔德的一道菜肴——橙色牛肉，是我从他那里学到的做法。这是一道美国化中餐，带有一定的创新性，使用牛里眼肉或更高品质的肉类材料。要特别关注酱汁的制作，让柠檬的味道充分绽放。搭配蒸熟的西兰花和一碗白米饭，它能让人情绪低落的夜晚变得美好。对于像我这样的上海球迷来说，橙色牛肉更是佳肴。
今晚餐点准备了：烤牛里眼肉配橙汁酱汁（上方图片）。烹饪过程可以参考《纽约时报》中的食谱指引。
周末早餐试试隔夜法式吐司？也完全可行！或者考虑隔夜燕麦。午餐则选择波特角蘑菇夹心面包三明治，或者用辣酱、泡菜制成的花生酱和三明治吧？
晚餐我会准备Yasmin Fahr 的一锅鸡肉与扁豆汤（请根据实际情况调整食谱细节），这道料理可以在接下来一周的午饭中继续享用。在办公室的微波炉里重新加热后，挤上一些酸橙汁作为调味，使味道更加生动，让人想起波斯风格炖肉的味道。一切都在向好的方向转变！
尽管与蛋糕和酒无关，但Dwight Garner 为《纽约时报书评》写了一篇关于犯罪作家John D. MacDonald的前瞻性文章，特别是飓风Helene带来的破坏之后。
我在百老汇提前观看了Jez Butterworth的新戏剧“加州丘陵”，在我见到杰西·格林（Jesse Green）发表的《纽约时报》热评之前。希望现在你仍能抢到票。
我沉迷于澳大利亚小说家彼得·泰姆普尔的作品，并正在阅读他的2002年悬疑小说《在邪恶的日子》，该书在美国版名为“身份理论”。请尝试在当地图书馆或二手书店找到这本书。
我虽晚一些发现，Miley Cyrus 主唱的Metallica歌曲版本“Nothing Else Matters”，詹姆斯·赫蒂菲尔德（James Hetfield）提供和声伴奏，令人沉醉。这音乐让周末变得愉悦无比。下周见！
新闻来源：www.nytimes.com
原文地址：Orange Beef Will Cure What Ails You
新闻日期：2024-10-04
原文摘要：
Good morning. The way things usually work for me this time of year: Weekdays are beautiful, crisp and clear. Guides I know text me at work with shots of beautiful fish caught by their grateful clients. Then Saturday arrives, and with it a honking east wind against what seems to be an always falling tide: steep chop that ought to delight the fish I’m chasing in my little, storm-tossed boat, but doesn’t because the fish aren’t there. They’re not anywhere. Every weekend. If I ever write a memoir about fishing, I’ll call it “You’d Have Thought.” Cooking delicious food afterward helps. Cooking it beforehand, similarly. Delicious food keeps the spirit up when all the spirit wants to do is burn a pile of fly rods and take up a more reliably satisfying weekend activity than using them. Watching planes land at the airport, say, or sock repair. For dinner this evening, then: orange beef (above), a dish I learned from the chef Dale Talde. It’s takeout-style Chinese American cooking brought into the home kitchen, where you can get fancy and use rib-eye steak instead of top sirloin or round. Attend to the sauce carefully, so that the citrus really pops. With steamed broccoli and a mound of white rice, the dish acts as a powerful antidepressant, which is great because in this weather I need one. (Paging all Chicago White Sox fans. Orange beef is for you!) View Recipe → Overnight French toast for breakfast this weekend? Absolutely. (Or overnight oats instead?) Also, portobello patty melts for lunch. (Or peanut butter sandwiches with sriracha and pickles instead?) And then, for sure, Yasmin Fahr’s one-pot chicken and lentils for dinner, the leftovers of which I can pick at all week for lunch, reheating it in the office microwave and squeezing lime juice over the top for a subtle sour note that recalls a Persian stew. Things are looking up! If none of those appeal, though, there are thousands and thousands more recipes to consider cooking this weekend waiting for you on New York Times Cooking. To answer a question I get quite a lot, you do need a subscription to read them. Subscriptions make this whole operation possible. Please, if you haven’t already, would you consider subscribing today? Thanks. We’re standing by to render assistance, should you find yourself caught sideways with our technology. Just write: cookingcare@nytimes.com. Someone will get back to you. Or, if you’d like to send an angry note or say something nice about my colleagues, you can write to me: foodeditor@nytimes.com. I cannot respond to every letter. But I read each one I get. Now, it’s a far cry from anything to do with cakes and ale, but Dwight Garner wrote a smart essay for The New York Times Book Review about the environmental prescience of the crime writer John D. MacDonald, given the devastation wrought last week by Hurricane Helene. I managed to see Jez Butterworth’s new play on Broadway, “The Hills of California,” before Jesse Green’s rave review was published in The Times. Here’s hoping you can get tickets now. I’m deep down a rabbit hole with the Australian novelist Peter Temple, and enjoying his dark 2002 thriller, “In the Evil Day,” published in the United States as “Identity Theory.” Look for that at the library or a used book store. Finally, I’m very late to it, but Miley Cyrus singing lead on “Nothing Else Matters,” with Metallica behind her and James Hetfield singing harmonies? That’s music to shallow-fry beef by, and to enjoy all weekend long. I’ll see you on Sunday.
