Category Dinner

I used to make actual jalapeno poppers — the stuffed, breaded, deep-fried kind — for every party. Then I did the math on how much oil that takes and how…

The first time I made these was for a Super Bowl party where I’d already committed to bringing three other dishes and completely ran out of time. Grape jelly meatballs…

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.…

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…

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…