What to Cook This Weekend

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Good morning. Samin Nosrat has a supercool new recipe for us to make on one of those nights when all we want is to feel comforted and safe, and it comes at the end of her latest “Eat” column for The Times, about cooking with her friends Mara and Twilight. It’s basically hippie tofu (above): bean curd marinated in unfermented soy sauce, fried in coconut oil and served over rice and quinoa. I think it would be an ace dinner tonight. Soundtrack: The Roches, obvs.: “Keep on Doing.”

Then tomorrow you could make Dorie Greenspan’s excellent new recipe for rice pudding, which would follow Melissa Clark’s recipe for roasted chicken thighs with winter squash quite nicely. Or you might make our old recipe for Katharine Hepburn’s brownies, the perfect capper to a meal of spaghetti and meatballs.

Sunday, you can prepare for the week ahead. Cook some bone broth on the stove top, or rather more quickly in a pressure cooker. Make yogurt, into which some morning soon you can stir seeded pecan granola or jam or both. Roast some beef for sandwiches. Bake bread for same.

Maybe make a lasagna and throw it in the freezer for the middle of the week? I like Regina Schrambling’s version. Also: Julia Moskin’s rather fancier green lasagna with Bolognese and béchamel. (Or, hey, you could always make lobster mac and cheese.)

And, for dinner on Sunday night, think about pizza and all the joys that it can bring to your table, whether in the form of a plain pie or an ethereal clam-chowder one, a rectangular grandma number or a gluten-free special, with tomatoes and olives.

There are thousands and thousands more recipes to cook this weekend at NYT Cooking. Head on over there to explore, to save recipes and rate them and leave notes on them and share them within your world. (Yes, you’ll need a subscription to access the site and apps. We think it’s worth the scratch.) We’ll be here to help if something goes sideways and you can’t get into your recipe box, or find yourself with a gallon of trotter gear and no sense what to do with it. Just write: cookingcare@nytimes.com. We’ll get back to you.

Now, it’s nothing to do with food unless you’ve torn open your share of M.R.E.s, but are you or do you know someone who has spent time in conflict zones, either as a military combatant or civilian, someone who has firsthand experience of war? The Times is restarting its remarkable At War blog. Join that community now, or pass along the link.

And wouldn’t you love to read the Elmore Leonard version of this story that ran late last month in The Times of Aspen, Colo., about a would-be counterfeiter?

Finally, do check out this dispatch from Sarah Marshall in the Baffler, about the Disney movie “Newsies.” The film had a two-week theatrical release in 1992 before retiring into video rotation. That’s where, Marshall writes, it “quietly changed the hearts and minds of a generation of schoolgirls. It helped us find each other. It asked us to think about politics. And it inspired us to write a lot of gay erotica.” It’s a fascinating read. Have a great weekend.