Dinner Recipes

This was supposed to be a slow-roasted chicken, the kind you spend all Sunday afternoon fussing over. I had the bird, the herbs, the little … Read more

It was 11:47 PM on a particularly gray Tuesday in late October, and I was hit with a craving so specific it almost felt like … Read more

My neighbor Kate wasn’t trying to impress anyone. I’d stopped by to return her hedge clippers, and the smell hit me before I even reached … Read more

Mariana from the community garden watched me fumbling with a bag of dried beans one Tuesday afternoon, clearly overestimating how much time I had before … Read more

I wasn’t expecting cooking advice from my accountant, but there I was, sorting through a pile of receipts in his cluttered office, listening to him … Read more

The neighborhood chili cook-off was in six hours and I’d completely forgotten. Everyone else would be bringing their award-winning, three-day-simmered masterpieces. I had a chuck … Read more

My neighbor Leo asked why I couldn’t just dump the whole can of pumpkin into the chili pot. I started to explain why that wouldn’t … Read more

I wasn’t expecting to get dinner advice from my accountant, but there I was, sorting through a pile of receipts while he described exactly how … Read more

My brother-in-law, Mark, had a very firm rule about soup. “Soup is not a meal,” he’d announce every time I ladled out a bowl of … Read more

There used to be a little diner on Route 9, just past the old feed store, that made chicken and dumplings that tasted like a … Read more