Dinner Recipes

I’m not supposed to have a favorite Christmas morning dish, but here we are. Last Christmas Eve, I was dropping off a plate of cookies … Read more

This was supposed to be a simple tray of stuffing. The kind you bake alongside the bird, soaking up all those beautiful drippings. I had … Read more

I was scrubbing a stubborn pan at 4:30 on a Tuesday afternoon, half-listening to a podcast about vintage Pyrex, when my plumber—a quiet man named … Read more

It was 11:47 PM on a random Wednesday in November, and I was staring into my fridge with the kind of desperation that only hits … Read more

I wasn’t expecting cooking advice from my accountant, but there I was, sitting in his cluttered office during tax season, watching him describe exactly how … Read more

My neighbor Marco watched me fumbling with a bag of chicken thighs in my driveway last fall, flour dust puffing up around me. I was … Read more

My daughter Clara asked why I couldn’t just skip the whole “cook the filling on the stove first” step for chicken pot pie. She was … Read more

Introduction Hand me that bag of carrots. No, seriously — I was in the middle of something. My neighbor Kate had cornered me in my … Read more

I was standing in the beer aisle at my local grocery store last Tuesday, staring at a six-pack of Guinness, when the smell hit me. … Read more

There used to be a tiny French bistro tucked away on a side street in Portland called Le Petit Chêne that made a warm Brussels … Read more