YURA'S MEALS-TO-GO

SOME HIGHLIGHTS from this week’s Meals-to-Go:  

Only a crazy person would cast aside the long, pillowy potato roll that comes carefully packed with Monday’s Seafood-Salad Roll Dinner. Your job’s to over-stuff it with our very New England-style crab/shrimp/cod salad. We thought it’d be fun to make it feel like a full-on beach day, so we’ve loaded the meal with clam bake-provoking sides: “BLT-Corn Salad” and Old Bay Potato Salad. One more set of instructions (and believe us, it’ll be worth it): Toast the roll in the oven first to melt the garlic butter we’ve spread inside the bun. 

It’s August, and the Upper East Side is blissfully quiet, so you can get a res at just about any restaurant you’d like. You pick a sidewalk table at a favorite neighborhood spot—it feels private and elegant, with an air of summer-casual. You scan the menu for Roasted Salmon with Tarragon-White Wine-Mushroom Pan Sauce (it seems so right on such an evening), and—Oops! If only you’d come to YURA! We’re serving that summery salmon dish beside Dilled Wild Rice-Corn Pilaf and crisp-tender Roasted Asparagus. (Relax. There’s still time to reserve this oh-so restaurant-worthy Meals-to-Go.) 

Rows and rows and rows of ingredients all piled high on baby spinach and arugula. We love the kind of salad where you just don’t know where to start! Greek Flank Steak Salad glorifies the fundamentals—from grilled steak, colorful bell peppers, kalamata olives, and ripe heirloom tomatoes, to pepperoncini, Persian cucumbers, and tangy feta. But there are interesting outliers too, such as smoky Grilled Hearts of Romaine and Herbed-Honey Mustard Vinaigrette. 

Ismail Merchant was known for his Academy Award winning cinema, but also for his accessible cookbooks filled with authentic Indian cuisine. Ginger-Coriander Chicken is from his catalogue of winning recipes, and one that we simply can’t stop cooking. Served with Cucumber Raita, and Coconut Rice-Baby Pea Pilaf.

We’re looking at a high on Wednesday that may not even break 80 degrees. Practically sweater weather! So, for the first time in a while, we’re breaking out the word cozy to describe the casserole of the day. Gobbler Pie’s a spin on classic shepherd’s pie, with a rich ground turkey filling, that puts plenty of vegetables to great use, topped with a mashed potato-rutabaga crust.