What to Cook This Weekend - The New York Times What to Cook This Weekend - The New York Times Posted: 10 Apr 2020 12:00 AM PDT Good morning. It's Good Friday, but not a good day for those stuck at home and jittery, bored, overworked, unemployed, out of yeast, in need of distraction, hungry for the platter of smoked pork with green beans and pickled hot peppers served at the Chinese place where you used to eat lunch twice a week, before the virus came. It's frustrating, this isolation. It's not how many of us are wired. Cook anyway. I know you're cooking all the time already, but don't let up. Cooking helps. It makes things just a tiny bit better for yourself and for those who are stuck at home alongside you. It transforms time into sustenance, into deliciousness, into something you can offer to others or yourself as a gift. Do it right, and it's possible to forget, if only for a moment, that we're sheltered in...