Dinner Recipes

I wasn’t expecting cooking advice from my plumber, but there I was, ankle-deep in a flooded kitchen, listening to him describe exactly how to make … Read more

My brother-in-law, Mark, had claimed to hate breakfast casseroles for a solid decade. “Soggy bread and weird eggs,” he’d mutter every Christmas morning, reaching for … Read more

I was folding laundry last Tuesday—boring, right?—when my neighbor’s kitchen vent kicked on and that smell hit me. Pork chops searing in butter and garlic, … Read more

It was 11:47 PM on a rainy Tuesday in early October, and I was hit with a craving so specific it almost felt unreasonable. I … Read more

This was supposed to be a stuffed pepper situation—you know, the kind where you carefully hollow out bell peppers, parboil them just right, and then … Read more

Hand me that can of cream of mushroom soup, my sister said, and I froze. We were standing in her tiny apartment kitchen, and she … Read more

There used to be a tiny café tucked behind a bookstore in my old neighborhood that made a chicken and wild rice soup that I … Read more

My neighbor wasn’t trying to impress me. I’d stopped by to return a casserole dish I’d borrowed weeks ago, and the smell hit me before … Read more

This was supposed to be a regular Tuesday night chili. Nothing fancy, just my standard go-to recipe I’d made a hundred times before. But the … Read more

Hatch green chile season is basically a religious holiday in New Mexico, and I say that as someone who didn’t grow up there. I was … Read more