YURA’S MEALS-TO-GO

Here are some highlights from this week’s Meals-to-Go:

When Flank Steak is seasoned in Asian-inspired marinade and grilled, you’re all the more lucky for the char-forward flavor—especially when topping a cold summer salad. The steak is served on a bed of You-Toss Cold Sesame Noodles, with crisp sugar snaps, cucumbers, scallions, bell peppers and tomatoes. The dynamite Sesame Sauce has a touch of tangy and spicy, and that alluring toasted sesame oil + peanut scent. As the name implies, you do the saucing. Don’t skip the cilantro and roasted peanuts. 

Summer Succotash starts with farm stand ingredients, so good right now that they barely need cooking: quick-blistered cherry tomatoes, sheared corn, and sweet-as-can-be sugar snaps, seasoned with snipped basil, and roasted mixed peppers. It makes a crisp, colorful bed for Herb-Roasted Australian Sea Bass, with a True Basil Pesto to punctuate the dish. Accompanied by Rosemary-Roasted Golden Potatoes.

Floured and sautéed like scallopine, but closer in size to a cotoletta, this thin, buttery chicken cutlet is then multi-layered—with garlicky sautéed spinach atop flash-roasted tomatoes, under a shower of shaved mozzarella. It’s Salvador’s fresh, summery spin on Chicken Florentine. Roasted Broccoli and simple Spaghetti with Frizzled Garlic come alongside.

We warned you we’d fallen for the combo of salmon + bacon! Monday’s “Fully Loaded” Spinach Salad is topped with a slice of perfectly rosy Roasted Salmon, and the hook that pulls it all together is Buddy’s to-die-for Bacon-Buttermilk Dressing. Loaded, like the classic diner dinner salad, not only with spinach—with tomatoes, hard-boiled egg, (frizzled!) mushrooms, and crumbled crisp bacon. And more bacon makes its way along with fresh dill and fresh basil into a kind of irresistible smoky buttermilk ranch.

As if we didn’t have enough reasons to blow you air kisses, the fact that even in summer you love a braise for supper, makes us feel great. With Paris sweltering through another scorcher, be glad you can have classic Coq Au Vin in the comfort of your own home. Expect the familiar flavors of smoky bacon, woodsy mushrooms, and good red table wine combined with our rich chicken stock, and a splash of cognac.