Dinner Recipes

Lisa wasn’t trying to impress anyone. I’d stopped by to grab a casserole dish I’d loaned her weeks ago, and the smell hit me before … Read more

Three winters ago, I was standing in the middle of a hardware store parking lot, trying to wrestle a too-large bag of birdseed into my … Read more

Maria watched me fumbling with a bottle of store-bought dressing at the community garden potluck last October. She didn’t say anything at first. Then she … Read more

There used to be this tiny farm-to-table spot tucked off a gravel road in upstate New York called The Thistle & The Root that made … Read more

I was standing in the parking lot of my local grocery store last Tuesday when the smell of someone’s slow cooker—wafting from a nearby car … Read more

It was 10:47 PM on a random Tuesday in October, and I had a very specific craving for something crispy, roasted, and sweet. I didn’t … Read more

The farmer at the Sunday market, an older woman named Rosa with dirt permanently wedged under her fingernails, watched me eyeing her acorn squash for … Read more

My sister-in-law had claimed to hate salad for thirty-seven years. Thirty-seven years. She’d pick around the lettuce in a taco, push garnish to the side … Read more

There used to be a tiny, red-painted cantina on a side street in Austin, called “La Casita de Lupe,” that made a white chicken chili … Read more

I was standing in the pasta aisle last Tuesday, staring at a box of lasagna noodles like they held the secrets to the universe, when … Read more