YURA'S MEALS-TO-GO

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

Sometimes we just gotta have lots of mushrooms in our meat sauce. Portobellos, caps to stems, beef-up the savory (grilled slabs make mean portobello burgers, after all). But it’s those fragrant Porcini, with their toasty, roasted flavor, that add the richest dimension to tomatoes, red wine and ground meat. We’ve put this sophisticated sauce to good use as an abundant filling for Beef and Porcini Mushroom Lasagna.

“Blistered Cherry Tomatoes” is almost as delicious to say, as they are to eat! This week, they’re the finishing touch to a sunny Tomato Jus that sauces Roasted Australian Sea Bass, served with snappy Dutch Runner Bean-Broccoli Rabe Sauté. If we do say-so ourselves, the tomatoes’ subtle tang is perfectly balanced by the delicate sweetness of Whipped Parsnip-Mashed Potatoes. 

This sauté will make any summer succotash green with envy, and fast-track your appetite to the upcoming season. Bi-colored Corn, Gold Bar Squash and Kale Sauté is served side-by-side with Southwestern Grilled Flank Steak (cooked rare, allowing you to perfectly reheat your meal). Fire Roasted Tomato-Chipotle Salsa is there to give the meat some heat (and kind of good on Cilantro-Lime Roasted Potatoes). 

Buddy toyed with oxymorons to describe the sugo di pomodoro he’s made for Spaghetti and Meatballs: Plain-ish…a ‘spin’ on straightforward tomato sauce….The point is, he’s letting the meatballs shine. All pork—a blend of sweet fennel sausage and ground fresh shoulder—they’re not the accessories, rather the star of the dish. Settled on top of a respectable portion of pasta, and served with Garlicky Vitaverde Broccoflower. 

We’ve mastered a pan sauce usually made à la minute: Tarragon, White Wine, and Mushroom Beurre Blanc. We drape it across Seared Salmon filet served with roasted spears of Asparagus. Step aside, rice pilafs and potato permutations, Dumplings are the accompaniment du jour, so make way. Think little gnocchi lightened by Ricotta, Parmesan and sweet, tender Baby Beet Greens.