Menus, chapter 18

Menus

Twenty menus that turn the recipes in this book into whole meals: weeknight plans, a budget week, packed lunches, Sunday lunch, dinner parties large and small, and the big days of the year, from a Norwegian Christmas Eve to a midsummer table. Each one gives you the scaled courses, a single merged shopping list sorted by store section, what to do the day before, and a timeline counted backwards from the moment food reaches the table, so you know what should be happening at T-90 or T-15. Times are realistic, not heroic, and lean on make-ahead steps wherever a recipe allows. Treat them as a working plan: swap a side for whatever looks best at the market, and every drink suggestion includes something without alcohol.

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