Golden crusty sourdough boule on a wooden cutting board

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I'm Jordan Michael Retes. Ten recipes I've obsessed over long enough to be sure they'll work in your kitchen too. Sourdough, pasta, ramen, cookies — and seventy photographs.

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The one I'm cooking on repeat

Bread·24 hours (mostly waiting)·Medium

Classic Sourdough Boule

A crackling crust, an open honeycomb crumb, and a flavor that only time can build. This is the sourdough I bake almost every week.

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Creamy cacio e pepe spaghetti twirled in a white bowl with black pepper

Italian

20 minutes·Medium

Cacio e Pepe (The Real Way)

Three ingredients, one pan, endless ways to mess it up. The trick to a silky sauce that never clumps.

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Charred neapolitan margherita pizza with mozzarella and basil on wooden peel

Italian

48 hours (dough) + 90 seconds (bake)·Medium

Neapolitan Margherita at Home

A blistered, leopard-spotted crust with a soft tender rim. You don't need a $3,000 oven — you need cold fermentation and 900°F.

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Thai

45 minutes·Medium

Thai Green Curry From Scratch

Skip the jarred paste. A homemade green curry paste — pounded in a mortar, cracked in coconut cream — is a different meal entirely.

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Glazed miso salmon with caramelized top and sesame seeds

Japanese

25 minutes (plus 4 hours marinating)·Easy

Miso-Glazed Salmon

Four ingredients, one pan, dinner that looks like it came out of a Ginza kitchen. The Nobu classic, home-cook edition.

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Rich beef bourguignon stew in an enameled dutch oven with pearl onions and mushrooms

French

4 hours (mostly hands-off)·Medium

Weekend Beef Bourguignon

The Julia Child move — beef, bacon, red wine, pearl onions, mushrooms, patience. A dinner-party stew that only gets better on day two.

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Overhead spiral of thinly sliced zucchini eggplant tomato in a cast iron pan

French

2 hours·Medium

Confit Byaldi (The Fancy Ratatouille)

Yes, the Pixar one. Thomas Keller's spiral vegetable version of Provençal ratatouille — as beautiful as it is delicious.

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Stack of gooey brown butter chocolate chunk cookies with melty chocolate

Baking

45 minutes (plus 24 hours resting)·Easy

Brown Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies

Puddles of dark chocolate, crackly tops, gooey middles, and the nutty depth only brown butter gives you. The only cookie recipe I have memorized.

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Creamy orange chicken tikka masala with naan and cilantro in a copper karahi

Indian

1 hour (plus 4 hours marinating)·Medium

Chicken Tikka Masala

Charred marinated chicken swimming in a creamy tomato sauce built on freshly toasted whole spices. The takeout classic, from scratch.

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Bowl of tonkotsu ramen with chashu, ajitama egg, scallion and nori

Japanese

12 hours (mostly simmering)·Hard

Weekend Tonkotsu Ramen

Milky-white pork bone broth, meltingly tender chashu, jammy ajitama eggs, springy noodles. A weekend project that gets you to a real ramen bowl.

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