Category Dinner

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

That’s the roast I keep coming back to, and it’s the one I’m handing over today: bottom round, browned hard, then left alone for eight hours until it falls apart…

There’s a version of this recipe in most family recipe boxes, and mine’s not fancy. Ground beef, canned enchilada sauce, cheddar, tortillas. That’s it. No homemade sauce, no roasting your…