Dinner Recipes

I wasn’t expecting a plumbing lesson to change my dinner rotation, but there I was, standing in the hardware aisle at 5 PM on a … Read more

The Friendsgiving potluck was in six hours and I’d completely forgotten. Everyone else would be bringing their signature dishes—David’s legendary mac and cheese, Sarah’s show-stopping … Read more

I was standing in the middle of the spice aisle at my local grocery store last Tuesday when a woman walked by holding a rotisserie … Read more

I was pulling a sweater over my head last Tuesday—the first one I’d needed in months—when the smell hit me. It wasn’t coming from my … Read more

There used to be this tiny café tucked behind a used bookstore in Portland, Oregon—called “The Gathered Table”—that made a butternut squash mac and cheese … Read more

There used to be a tiny, hole-in-the-wall restaurant tucked away on a side street in Portland called The Little Fish that made this honey-glazed salmon … Read more

I wasn’t expecting cooking advice from the plumber, but there I was, standing in my own kitchen last November, watching him tighten a pipe under … Read more

I was at my local hardware store last Tuesday—picking up a new drill bit, of all things—when the woman behind the counter, whose nametag read … Read more

My neighbor Karen wasn’t trying to impress me. I’d stopped by to return her slow cooker—the one she’d loaned me three weeks ago, honestly, I’d … Read more

My sister-in-law, Jen, wasn’t trying to impress anyone that Sunday morning. I’d stopped by to borrow a ladder—honestly, just to grab it and go—and the … Read more