Ali Slagle

New York

Food Editor and Project Manager at Freelance

Food Writer at 40 Ingredients Forever

My cookbook’s name is I Dream of Dinner (so You Don't Have To)

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Five Quick, Kid-Friendly Vegetarian Dinners

1 week ago | denverpost.com | Margaux Laskey |Nargisse Benkabbou |Eric Kim |Ali Slagle

By Margaux Laskey, The New York TimesMy 13-year-old daughter has been toying with the idea of becoming a vegetarian since she was about 3, which is when she asked me where the hamburger on her plate came from. (You don’t think about how weird that conversation is until you have to have it.)I was born in the meat-and-potatoes Midwest and raised in the meat-and-three South.
Chicken & rice

2 weeks ago | alislagle.substack.com | Ali Slagle

A reminder: Paid subscriptions support those who aren’t able to afford one right now. To be comped, join the list here. My mom is an excellent cook but not a fancy cook. She cooks simple food correctly, so even the most basic foods in her hands — sautéed broccoli, steamed rice — are sublime. Why? She knows how to cook, and she has a secret ingredient. Where I might use water, she’s using chicken broth. Not homemade broth. Please.
Ali Slagle's summer cooking bucket list

3 weeks ago | alislagle.substack.com | Ali Slagle

I am ravenous for summer. Let’s do this thing. These are the first recipes I’ll eat as fast as I can. Share yours in the comments below? Made it last year with clams that I dug out of the earth; can’t wait to do a repeat. Like simple roasted chicken but smoky from an hour plus on the grill. I use the method in Paula Disbrowe’s Any Night Grilling. Ate it on a dog at a beach bonfire last night. ✔️Specifically beets and zucchini.
Skillet salmon with soy-butter tomatoes

1 month ago | alislagle.substack.com | Ali Slagle

“I’ve loved your work for a while and as a mom to an active one year old I love how accessible and delicious your recipes are (and how they are written for max efficiency!)” — Cece, paid subscriberHere at 40 Ingredients Forever, recipes are abundant in flavor and joy yet streamlined in process — because they’re all made of the same 40 ingredients. Chicken skin gets lots of love. It’s golden, crackly, delicious, yeah, but what about fish skin?
7 ways to turn a can of tuna into lunch (or even dinner)

1 month ago | sandiegouniontribune.com | Ali Slagle

By Ali SlagleFor The New York TimesCanned tuna can swim alongside so much more than mayo. Salty from the sea but not too fishy, it brings a lot to meals, with its juiciness and substantial yet delicate flakiness. It’s also pantry-friendly, budget-friendly and good for you. Here’s how to zhuzh up a can of tuna for a school of quick, flavor-forward dishes. 1. Add tang with tomatoesTuna is rich, oily and salty.
The best way to cut asparagus

1 month ago | alislagle.substack.com | Ali Slagle

No matter what size asparagus the market is selling, I’m buying. It’s asparagus’s season and there’s no holding back. And when you can cut any asparagus the same way and sprinkle them into any recipe, why would you? For any asparagus — pencil-thin, thick as thumbs, and anywhere in between — thinly slice them (say 1/4 to 1/2-inch thick) on the diagonal. Because:Spears of any chunkiness become roughly the same size, so they’ll cook evenly.
What I’ve learned baking cakes for my coffee shop

1 month ago | alislagle.substack.com | Ali Slagle |Yossy Arefi

1. Cake is breakfast. 2. I don’t know how to develop cake recipes. Only magicians can do that. So when I started making some cakes each weekend for my local coffee shop to sell, I followed cake recipes I’d made before or wanted to try. And for all the cake ideas that didn’t exist in recipe form, I turned to Magician Yossy Arefi, author of Snacking Bakes, Snacking Cakes, and the Substack Have a Little Something. She got a wishlist of random ideas and if any of them appealed to her, I got a new recipe.
Five Weeknight Dishes: Meals for Maycember ...Middle East

1 month ago | en.pressbee.net | Ali Slagle |Naz Deravian |Jennifer Steinhauer

The Denver Post - News source : The Denver Post ( Middle East ) () 20 If you’re a parent, you might be in the thick of Maycember, that end-of-spring flurry of activities that requires SEAL-Team-Six-level logistics and planning: school concerts, graduations, sports tournaments, dance recitals, field trips, themed dress-up days, classroom parties, teacher conferences, summer child-care planning. (What am I forgetting?
Five Weeknight Dishes: Meals for Maycember

1 month ago | denverpost.com | Ali Slagle |Naz Deravian |Jennifer Steinhauer |Eric Kim

If you’re a parent, you might be in the thick of Maycember, that end-of-spring flurry of activities that requires SEAL-Team-Six-level logistics and planning: school concerts, graduations, sports tournaments, dance recitals, field trips, themed dress-up days, classroom parties, teacher conferences, summer child-care planning. (What am I forgetting?
5 weeknight dishes: Turkey meatballs so tender you can cut them with a fork

1 month ago | twincities.com | Emily Weinstein |Ali Slagle |Lidey Heuck |Zainab Shah

I finally met a turkey meatball I love, after years of trying. Ground turkey is bland compared with beef and pork, which sets me up for a lackluster meatball. The texture is often problematic, too: dry, dense or both. But Ali Slagle, borrowing a trick from cookbook author Julia Turshen, adds a good amount of ricotta cheese to the turkey mixture. The result is a pan of meatballs so tender that you can easily slice into them with a spoon as you scoop up saucy bites from your bowl.