Easy Dinner Recipes

By the fourth time I made this honey butter skillet cornbread in a single week, I stopped pretending I was testing a recipe and admitted … Read more

The pot was scraped clean. I mean, actually clean — my husband was tilting it over his bowl to get the last bit of broth, … Read more

For a while, I just accepted that a quick weeknight dinner meant either takeout or something from a box. There was this gap between wanting … Read more

“So, is this soup or a hug in a bowl?” That’s what my friend Jen texted me after I dropped off a thermos of this … Read more

I want salmon right now. Not the kind you have to think about—marinate, flip, check, worry about. I want the kind where you put everything … Read more

The Sunday afternoon light was already fading into that soft November grey, and I had that restless feeling you get when the weekend is slipping … Read more

The living room was already half-full of people shouting at a screen, and I was standing in the kitchen doorway wondering how I’d feed everyone … Read more

Tomato soup from a can just wasn’t cutting it anymore. For a while, I accepted that homemade versions would be watery, bland, or take all … Read more

Flipping burgers on the grill for the thirtieth person to arrive, I realized the buns were still rock hard in the bag and the coleslaw … Read more

The creamy, cool bite of a forkful that gives way to a burst of bacon salt and a pop of fresh chive—that’s the whole point … Read more