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Some recipes earn their spot by being clever. This one earns it by being lazy. Sunday, dead on my feet, nothing in the house but a pack of stewing beef and half a bag of new potatoes. Everything goes in…

Cheesy broccoli with cheddar cheese sauce is the side dish that empties first. Two pots. Twenty minutes. The sauce starts with butter and garlic, gets thickened with flour, and finishes with a full 2 cups of cheddar. Broccoli goes in…

I wasn’t trying to reinvent arroz con pollo. I just wanted dinner in one pan with dishes I didn’t have to think about twice. This is the version that stuck — seared chicken thighs, rice that actually cooks through, and…

I used to only make baked sweet potatoes on nights I had an hour to kill, which in practice meant almost never. Once I started doing them in the air fryer I stopped bothering with the oven for this at…

I named this one before I thought about how it’d look in a recipe title, but by the time I realized, it was already the most requested thing I bring to a potluck, so the name stuck. This is a…

I made this the first really cold night of the year, mostly because I didn’t want to think about dinner for longer than 30 minutes. One pot, one pound of sausage, and whatever potatoes were sitting in the pantry. It’s…

I used to make actual stuffed peppers — the kind where you hollow out the peppers, stuff them, bake them upright in a dish so they don’t tip over and dump filling everywhere. At some point I just stopped hollowing…

I made these green beans the first time because I had a bag going soft in the crisper drawer and zero interest in steaming them into mush again. Butter, garlic, a hot oven, then cheese on top at the end…