Weekends Are for New Recipes

Good morning. Where do you stand on the French toast bagel? It's like an egg bagel that tastes like French toast. I was suspicious myself. But hear me out: If you toast one of those, spread it with a ton of salted butter and add a bare shimmer of strawberry jam? You've got a quality breakfast item. I'm sorry, but it's true.
Give that number a try this weekend, the first of Actual Summer, and understand that foodways are always evolving, always branching toward the new and different. What we eat is sometimes marvelous strange. (Let me know how it goes for you: hellosam@nytimes.com.)
I anyway love the experimentation that weekends afford, the chance to eat or cook something I haven't before — say, crispy gnocchi with tomato and red onion (above), or a buttermilk green goddess slaw. That gnocchi number is particularly appealing, like a panzanella with crisp dumplings instead of stale bread.
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Today could be my chance finally to bake a coconut layer cake, or to assemble a West African sauce moyo with mango to spoon over steak.
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