I’m an entire season late to the social gathering, however I simply received into the present Ted Lasso, which incorporates a deeply charming soccer coach (the American type) who heads throughout the pond to coach, for his first time, a soccer membership (the soccer type). It’s extremely candy and really feel-good, and new episodes air each Friday on Apple TV+. However I’m not right here to speak concerning the present—I’m right here to speak concerning the cute pink field of freshly baked shortbread biscuits that Ted brings his boss each morning.
The containers make me nostalgic for my very own days working in a bakery, the place I clocked numerous hours folding and assembling cardboard packaging similar to those within the present. And the biscuits remind me of my grandmother, who loves shortbread—which, as we (and the Brits in Ted Lasso) know, is the right cookie to have with tea. She lives in Atlanta and I reside in New York, so I at all times ship her some for birthdays and particular events, and through the years I’ve landed on two favorites that may be shipped nationwide: Mah Ze Dahr’s vanilla bean shortbread and Again within the Day Bakery’s lavender shortbread. However as I used to be watching Ted’s boss Rebecca Welton benefit from the shortbread, I noticed I couldn’t consider the final time I’d had some myself. So I took a visit via the archives to search for just a few recipes, which you will discover within the listing beneath. I’m planning to check out one (or two or three…) forward of the subsequent episode.
Within the meantime, listed below are just a few different issues I’m loving:
- This guide-to-end-all-guides to dining outside from Epicurious, significantly the frozen cocktail and ice box cake entries
- And a information to all issues sticky rice
- Ideal dining itineraries by native restaurant specialists all over the place from New Orleans to Bozeman for the August print journal (subscribe here to get future points)
- This year’s Met Gala plans, which function a lineup of extraordinarily cool cooks—and a completely plant-based menu (!)
- A conversation I had with Jana Schmieding, co-star and author of one other nice present, Rutherford Falls, which simply received picked up for a second season. We mentioned what she ate within the writers’ room, meals sovereignty, and a lot extra
- A really useful Epicurious product overview of serrated knives, simply in time for tomato season
- And talking of tomatoes, I’m a purist, however this Tomato Caesar recipe for the subsequent time my market haul is lower than good. Plus extra new recipes preferrred for the canine days of August: Dominican Spaghetti, Saucy Grilled Squash With Chickpeas, Spicy Braised Eggplant Noodles, Summer Corn Rice
Please inform me concerning the TV exhibits (or films, performs, video video games, or books) which have prompted you to cook dinner one thing new—however no spoilers, please! I’m at sonia@bonappetit.com.
Extra shortbread recipes:
