Dinner Recipes

By the fourth time I roasted an acorn squash this month, I had developed a weird, specific relationship with its tough, ribbed skin. It’s not … Read more

I thought the skin of a delicata squash was going to be a tough, inedible hurdle to climb. It took about twenty minutes of aggressive … Read more

He didn’t ask for it because he was bored. He asked because he tasted it. We were sitting at the kitchen table, the kind of … Read more

Introduction The orange smear on the plate is what I made this for — everything else is secondary. You know how sometimes you wake up … Read more

I figured a good salmon dinner required a fancy restaurant or at least a very patient chef. It took about one Tuesday night, a fridge … Read more

The kitchen was quiet, the rain was tapping against the window, and I had a pound of ground beef thawed on the counter with no … Read more

The smell of onions softening in butter with a little garlic — that sweet, savory scent that curls through the kitchen before dinner even really … Read more

My husband did not believe a breakfast casserole could be both easy and actually good. He’d had too many versions that turned out soggy, or … Read more

The skin. That’s really what this whole thing is about. I mean, yes, the meat underneath is juicy and tender and all that good stuff, … Read more

I had been looking for a weeknight pasta that actually came together in the time it takes to boil water — not one of those … Read more