Dinner Recipes

I was standing in the bulk bins aisle at my local grocery store last November, staring at a pile of what looked like pale yellow … Read more

My youngest nephew, Leo, had claimed for four straight years that he hated bell peppers. Hated them. Would pick them out of anything. Said they … Read more

“Mom, this tastes like dessert, but you said it’s a vegetable.” My eight-year-old was staring at his plate like I’d pulled off some kind of … Read more

November dusk settles early in the South, and I remember standing in my grandmother’s kitchen while she pulled a cast iron skillet from the oven, … Read more

My grandmother handed me a mason jar of turkey drippings once, and I honestly didn’t know what to do with it. She just said, “Don’t … Read more

The way the sage leaves curl and crisp at the edges in that foaming brown butter—that’s the whole reason I make this dish. Everything else, … Read more

That crackling sound — the way the skin tightens and pops as it hits the hot oven — still takes me straight to a quiet … Read more

My neighbor Mark asked why I couldn’t just microwave the acorn squash instead of roasting it for forty minutes. I started to explain why that … Read more

I want a full Thanksgiving dinner but there are only two of us eating it, and I refuse to buy a twelve-pound bird just to … Read more

I ruined stuffed acorn squash three times before I figured out what I was doing wrong. The first batch came out watery and bland. The … Read more