Good morning. Do you have an air fryer? Millions of Americans are doing so and, as Christina Morales reports this week for The Times, the appliance could replace the microwave and humble toaster oven as the nation’s favorite cooking appliance, this year’s electric pressure cooker or 12-button blender. “The air fryer,” said one of the home cooks Christina spoke to for the article, “is here to stay.”
I don’t own an air fryer. I’m devoted to my regular oven, to my countertop toaster oven, to frying in oil on my stovetop, increasingly to the pleasures of the pressure cooker. But maybe I’m just, as always, behind the curve of kitchen progress. For those who took part in the parade, maybe for you, we’ve got plenty of recipes: Air-fryer chicken Parmesan cheese; air fryer French fries; air fryer spicy chicken wings; airfryer Brussels sprouts with garlic, balsamic and soy; even an airfryer cheesecake (above).
Let me know how you like them. Maybe you’ll turn me into a convert.
It’s not like I’m immune to gadget cooking. This week I’m going to make Cuban pork with garlic sauce and, as a nod to another kitchen fashion, this one-pot pasta with harissa bolognese. You may prefer steamed eggs in the microwave, or a crockpot cake, a slow cooker beef stew with maple and stout.
Cooking more traditionally, ie on the stove or in the oven, think cheesy baked pasta with sausage and ricotta, or a zucchini and egg tart with fresh herbs. How about roasted vegetable burritos? The fettuccine Alfredo they served at Elaine’s in New York? I love a spiced white bean and sausage stew.
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Now it has nothing to do with amba or treacle, but I did enjoy the near-noir, small-town humor of John Straley’s “Baby’s First Felony,” a murder mystery set in Sitka, Alaska. (It’s a series, and this book is number 7 of 8 – I’m not sure why I started so late in the series, but it’s good.)
In The Times, Alexandra Jacobs wrote about Brian Cox’s memoir, “Putting the Rabbit in the Hat.” As for prose, I think I prefer Jacobs over Cox.