Dinner Recipes

The potluck was in four hours and I’d completely forgotten. Let me tell you, I was standing in my kitchen staring at a pound of … Read more

I was walking through the grocery store parking lot last Tuesday when the smell of garlic hitting hot butter drifted from somewhere – a food … Read more

My sister asked why I couldn’t just dump everything in one pot and let it simmer. I was mid-lecture — something about layering flavors, browning … Read more

I was standing in the grocery store aisle last October, staring at a package of crescent rolls, when the smell hit me. Not from the … Read more

This was supposed to be a Halloween party hit. I had this whole vision—spiderweb dip, bat-shaped cookies, the works. But I grabbed the wrong crescent … Read more

My neighbor, a woman named Gloria who grew up on a farm in Ohio, watched me one afternoon as I was trying to wrestle a … Read more

It was 10:47 PM on a drizzly Tuesday in late October, and I was hit with the weirdest craving for something savory, sweet, and deeply … Read more

I had claimed to hate roasted root vegetables for about, oh, fifteen years. Fifteen years of pushing sad, mushy carrots around my plate at holiday … Read more

I was standing in the middle of a hardware store last October—looking for a specific kind of paintbrush, honestly, the one with the angled tip—when … Read more

I was standing in the cheese aisle last Tuesday, three hours before my partner was due home, and I felt that familiar little flutter of … Read more