Dinner Recipes

My buddy Marco watched me fumbling with a too-small slow cooker on his tailgate last fall, trying to keep a batch of pulled pork warm … Read more

I was trying to make a fancy Italian meatball recipe. You know, the kind with the fennel seed and the grated pecorino that you spend … Read more

My neighbor wasn’t trying to impress anyone. I’d stopped by to borrow a ladder on a Saturday morning, and the smell hit me before I … Read more

The summer I turned thirty, my air conditioning broke. It was the middle of July in Texas, which meant my kitchen felt like a sauna … Read more

My sister asked why I couldn’t just throw everything in a bag and freeze it. I was in the middle of explaining my elaborate Sunday … Read more

I was standing in my kitchen last Tuesday, staring into the fridge with that familiar 5 PM dread. You know the feeling—when you’re tired, hungry, … Read more

The dinner party was in four hours and I’d completely forgotten I was supposed to bring the main course. Not just any main course, either … Read more

There used to be a tiny bakery tucked between a laundromat and a vintage shop on Grand Avenue that made the most incredible rosemary focaccia. … Read more

My neighbor across the street, an 82-year-old retired botanist named Eleanor, asked me last August why I couldn’t just toss my garden tomatoes into the … Read more

I wasn’t expecting cooking advice from my plumber, but there I was, standing in my flooded kitchen with water up to my ankles, listening to … Read more