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I made these the first weekend it actually felt like fall, mostly because I had a bag of cornflakes going stale in the pantry and didn’t want to waste them. Tossed the leftover tenders in cowboy butter almost as an…

I made this the first time because I had a half-empty jar of pizza sauce sitting in the fridge and no real plan for dinner. Twenty minutes later it was gone — not dinner, the dip. My family stood around…

I used to think crispy wings were a deep fryer’s job, full stop. That one batch changed how I make wings for good, and I haven’t dragged the fryer out since. These are baked, not fried, and the skin still…

I brought a pot of stovetop queso to a Super Bowl party a few years back, and by halftime it had gone grainy and sad at the bottom of the bowl. That’s the last time I made queso without a…

I brought this to a Sunday watch party last fall and made the classic slow cooker mistake — dumped all the cheddar in at the start instead of holding some back. It still tasted fine, but the top never got…

I made this the first time on a night I didn’t feel like babysitting two pots, and it’s been in the weeknight rotation ever since. Chili mac isn’t a new idea. Mine just skips the part where you cook pasta…

I burned the garlic the first time I made this. Not badly — just enough that the whole kitchen smelled like it, and I almost started over. Didn’t, though. Threw it in the slow cooker anyway and six hours later…

I started making these the week my oven’s broiler element decided to give up on me, which meant no more broiling chicken parm the way I normally do it. Ground chicken, a sheet pan, and whatever marinara I had left…

My grandmother made a version of this with cream of mushroom soup out of a can, and for years I thought that was the only way to do it. Then I tried building the gravy from scratch — real broth,…

This one’s a repeat in my kitchen because it hits the buffalo chicken dip flavor but turns into an actual dinner instead of something you eat standing at the counter with crackers. Whole wheat or Banza pasta, shredded rotisserie or…