Dinner Recipes

I thought crispy roasted potatoes needed a complicated technique—parboiling, shaking, maybe a little cornstarch situation. It took one Wednesday night of pure laziness for that … Read more

It is just past eight on a Tuesday, and the house is finally quiet. The dishwasher is humming its low, steady rhythm, and the only … Read more

My husband asked for sheet pan pork chops three nights in a row without being prompted, and I honestly didn’t know whether to laugh or … Read more

“This tastes like the fair, but I didn’t have to stand in line for it.” My husband said that around a mouthful of bratwurst and … Read more

It was a Tuesday night in November, the sky already dark by 5 PM, and the radiator was clanking like it was trying to start … Read more

That text came through at 4:15 PM on a Tuesday. I was staring at the clock, knowing my stomach was about to growl loud enough … Read more

I want a pizza that looks like it has been sitting in a patch of pumpkins since Tuesday. The kitchen smells like oregano and burnt … Read more

Late October, and the squash at the farmers market have stopped pretending to be decorative. There they sit—acorn, butternut, a few knobby heirlooms—and then the … Read more

For a while, I just accepted that midweek dinners in October were going to taste like takeout containers and regret. The air gets crisp, the … Read more

I was in the middle of untangling a knot of onion strips that had somehow stuck together in the bowl. The kids were already asking … Read more