Cacio e pepe

Pasta, glossy with pecorino

Three ingredients and one difficult emulsion.

Miso-glazed aubergine

Aubergine, charred and glazed

Nasu dengaku, more or less. Twenty minutes, mostly unattended.

Shakshuka

Eggs in spiced tomato

One pan, any time of day.

Kimchi jjigae

Kimchi stew, bubbling

The reason to let kimchi get too sour.

Phở bò

Phở bò, the bowl

A six-hour broth and a five-minute bowl. Do the first on a Sunday.