Category Dinner

I started making these on nights when the stove was the only appliance I trusted myself to use. Oven’s broken, whatever — buffalo chicken wraps don’t care. Shredded chicken in a hot skillet, a handful of cabbage, roll it up,…

I’ve gone through more cartons of cottage cheese in the last two months than I have in the last two years combined. This one’s the flatbread pizza version, and it’s the one I keep coming back to when I want…

I made these on a Tuesday when I had exactly four chicken thighs left in the fridge and no real plan. Threw honey and soy sauce together mostly out of laziness — didn’t want to dig out five other bottles…

There’s a version of this dinner I make when the fridge has odds and ends in it — half a bag of spinach going soft, a jar of sun-dried tomatoes with two tablespoons of oil left in the bottom, mushrooms…

I used to order this every single time we did takeout, right up until the night the delivery guy showed up an hour late with a container of what was basically brown syrup with a few sad strips of meat…

I make this one on weeks when I’ve got exactly one pan’s worth of energy left in me. Chicken thighs go in first, then the rice cooks right in that same fat with lemon zest and bouillon doing the heavy…

I made this the first time on a Tuesday when I had shrimp thawing in the fridge and no real plan. What I ended up with was a pan of blackened, spice-crusted shrimp sitting in a garlic cream sauce that…

I made this the first time on a Tuesday when I had exactly one plan for dinner and zero energy to execute it. Rotisserie chicken from the store, half a jar of alfredo sauce leftover from something else, a box…

This is the kind of dinner I make when I want something that tastes like it took effort but really just took twenty minutes of not paying attention to a skillet. Ground beef, tomato sauce, a little cream stirred in…

I burned the garlic the first time I made these. Turned my back for maybe ten seconds to grab the honey off the counter, came back to a skillet full of bitter brown flecks, and had to start the sauce…