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Dinner Tetris for Ashley in Mobile, AL

6 days ago | alislagle.substack.com | Ali Slagle

Welcome to Dinner Tetris, an advice column here at 40 Ingredients Foreverwhere a reader shares the ingredients they always have on hand and I dream up three dinners using those ingredients.If you’d like your pantries Tetris-ed into dinner, head here. Occupation: Fitness instructorResiding in: Mobile, ALFeeding: 6Notes: I don't eat a lot of meat, although my family generally loves it.
9 brand-new recipes

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

Hi everyone! As a thank-you to paid subscribers who didn’t walk away after Wednesday, I’m sharing gift links to my new recipes published elsewhere on the internet. We’ve got make-ahead lunches, flaky puff pastry, slurpy angel hair, and the first spears of asparagus popping up with furikake, burrata, gnocchi, and more. If you’re wondering what becoming a paid subscriber to 40 Ingredients Forever is all about, take a look around. See you next week. This post is for paid subscribers
Kale salad with tempeh, sweet potato, and ginger

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

"I Dream of Dinner" is the most-used cookbook in our house, and many of your recipes are in our daily rotation. We love many recipe developers and authors, but yours are the most *useful*, by far (and delicious). " — Joe, paid subscriberWhen I go home to California for three weeks, I end up with salads made of raw kale, raw sweet potato, tempeh, and avocado. But don’t unsubscribe yet. I know you want to because every time I post a tempeh recipe, so many say see-ya to this newsletter.
Spring chicken soup

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

Here at 40 Ingredients Forever, recipes are abundant in joy yet streamlined in process—because they’re all made of the same 40 ingredients. "I Dream of Dinner is a wonderful cookbook, endlessly full of great ideas. 40 Ingredients Forever is much the same. Endlessly full of great ideas!" — Cara, paid subscriberCybelle, who tested this recipe, riddled me this: Is this recipe a “spring chicken” soup or a spring “chicken soup.” Meaning, is it rejuvenating or cozy?
Mostly greens, meal-prep meatballs

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

Here at 40 Ingredients Forever, recipes are abundant in joy yet streamlined in process—because they’re all made of the same 40 ingredients. Hello! A few weeks ago, I helped my friend Maryam cook Persian New Year for her family and friends. The most important dish, to her, is the kuku sabzi, a fun hat trick in which an actual bed of herbs cooks down to three 9-inch rounds just barely held together with eggs.
Avo (not ovo) salad sandwiches

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

"Your recipes (not just the salmon) really did help the clouds go away" — Amy, paid subscriber You’re right, it is totally insensitive to send an avocado recipe today. Totally!90% of the United States’s avocado supply is grown in Mexico, and yeah, well, tariffs. (Or maybe not? By the time you read this, who knows.) The price of a precious avocado may be rising, but there must be some humor in the situation. A sweaty, anxious humor.
Dinner Tetris for a flight attendant

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

Welcome to Dinner Tetris, an advice column here at 40 Ingredients Foreverwhere a reader shares the ingredients they always have on hand and I dream up three dinners using those ingredients.If you’d like your pantries Tetris-ed into dinner, head here.
"That good rice"

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

"Practical and creative at same time" — Tom, a paid subscriberIf you ever want to be wowed by the transformative power of cooking, make mujaddara. It starts with rice, lentils, and onions, three stony, cagey ingredients. But as they cook, these solitary spirits learn to collaborate, working towards a common cause that’s grander than their humble selves. The creamy lentils polka dot the tender kernels of rice, while fried slices of onion snake through.
9 new recipes waving winter goodbye

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

Thanks to everyone who wrote in to express their appreciation for the easier style of meal-prepping in last week’s post. I delight in scheming such plans — it’s like playing kitchen Twister — but could use a week off in the kitchen. So, today paid subscribers will get unlocked links to my new recipes published elsewhere on the internet. We’ve got weeknighty salads and chicken, along with cheesy breadsticks from my college nights, a 5-minute cake, and wings to rival Buffalo’s. See you next week.
Boring lunch is better than no lunch

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

The success of my day hinges on whether I eat lunch but wow is it hard to eat lunch! The reason is very specific to how I develop recipes, which I won’t bore you with, but basically by lunchtime I’ve already cooked so much and tasted so many little bites that making something new for lunch isn’t happening, but also I’m over whatever I have been working on and that won’t be a satisfying lunch either.