Three Things

Tonight's no-brainer dinner, more famous cookies, PBS therapy

Greetings eaters and readers! What is happening? Today’s no-recipe recipe of the day is this old favorite quinoa bowl you’re looking at above, and I’d be willing to bet you have all the ingredients you need for it in your kitchen right exactly now. The gist is: Quinoa topped with steamed spinach, caramelized onions, a drizzle of soy sauce and a 7-minute egg. Vegetarian. Protein-packed. Easy. Fast. Any other questions? What else? Loved this round-up of Food & Wine’s Biggest Food Trends of the past 45 years. (How many do you remember?) On Splendid Table, Twin Cities chef Gavin Kaysen (Spoon & Stable, Bellecour, Demi) talks to Francis Lam about his new cookbook At Home, a compilation of accessible recipes he developed on pandemic-era zoom cooking classes. And I’m still shook by Kevin Roose’s interaction with Microsoft’s new chatbot, Sydney, that went to a very dark place very fast — you can also listen to Roose tell the story on the Daily. Finally, I love you, Seattle! Herewith, at long …