Dinner Recipes

I wasn’t expecting cooking advice from a stranger, but there I was, sitting in the back of a yellow cab in downtown Chicago, listening to … Read more

The power went out halfway through a Tuesday dinner in November, leaving us in a kitchen lit only by the flickering flame of a single … Read more

It was 11:47 PM on a random Wednesday in late October, and I was hit with the weirdest craving—not for candy corn or pumpkin spice, … Read more

My husband had claimed to hate salmon for nearly a decade. It wasn’t that he disliked the taste of fish in general, but he was … Read more

My roommate asked why I couldn’t just boil the rice and brown the beef separately before mixing them in the pan. I started to explain … Read more

The power went out halfway through a Tuesday dinner back in 2009, leaving me standing in the dark with a cast-iron skillet that was still … Read more

My sous-chef, a ten-year-old named Leo who takes culinary instruction very seriously, asked why I couldn’t just toss the bread cubes into the pot with … Read more

It was 4:30 PM on a Tuesday when the house went completely dark. Not just a light bulb burning out, but a total power outage … Read more

My father-in-law had claimed to hate green bean casserole for three decades. He’d shake his head when the topic came up at holiday gatherings, muttering … Read more

The power went out halfway through Sunday dinner last November, plunging the dining room into a gray, early-evening gloom. I was standing by the stove, … Read more