Dinner Recipes

I was standing in the parking lot of our local grocery store last November, fumbling for my keys, when the smell of rotisserie chicken hit … Read more

The Thanksgiving potluck at my office was in four hours and I’d completely forgotten. Everyone else would be bringing their grandmother’s legendary cornbread dressing or … Read more

Lisa wasn’t trying to impress anyone. I’d stopped by to drop off a book I’d borrowed, and the smell hit me before I even got … Read more

There used to be a tiny farm-to-table place tucked behind a bike shop in my neighborhood that made a roasted butternut squash that I still … Read more

It was 11:47 PM on a quiet Wednesday in December. The house was finally still, and I had this ridiculous, almost urgent craving for a … Read more

My neighbor across the hall, a retired chef named Sal, watched me wrestling with a full-sized turkey breast in my tiny apartment kitchen one Wednesday … Read more

My daughter asked why I couldn’t just use the boxed cornbread mix for Thanksgiving dressing. I started to explain why that wouldn’t work — then … Read more

I swore I wasn’t a squash person. For years, I’d politely push roasted butternut to the side of my plate and murmur something about preferring … Read more

It was 5:47 PM on a Tuesday, and I had completely forgotten I was supposed to bring a soup to the neighborhood “Soup Swap” that … Read more

You know that feeling when you take a bite of something and just have to stop talking for a second? That’s this salad. It’s the … Read more