http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/14/dining/rice-and-beans-plum-torte-and-other-midweek-winners.html 2016-09-14 17:37:37 Rice and Beans, Plum Torte and Other Midweek Winners Celebrate mid-week with a Times classic recipe, then go read some science fiction. === Sam Sifton emails readers of Cooking f Good morning. One of the kids made rice and beans for dinner the other night and didn’t use a recipe, and it was so good we’re calling it this week’s no-recipe recipe. (Are you new here? We do this every Wednesday. Welcome!) She made rice. While it was steaming, she sautéed chopped onions and garlic in olive oil. Then she browned some ground pork on top of it and seasoned the mixture with salt, pepper and a hefty few tablespoons of hot curry powder. She added a can of black beans, then the finished rice. She stirred everything together and fed everyone who was around, and there was still some left when her parents got home from the gig that had kept them from feeding their children themselves. The hugs doled out that night were especially tight. Curry in the rice and beans: It was Maybe make rice and beans this week even if you don’t want to freestyle? There are loads of good recipes for the dish on Or go another direction entirely. Have you made Mark Bittman’s Finally, we are coming up on the 33rd anniversary of one of the most popular recipes in the history of The New York Times, Marian Burros’s Many, many other ideas for what to cook tonight may be found on Now, perhaps you would like to go down a deep rabbit hole? Check out the sci-fi “