Category Dinner

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…

I started making this on the nights I forgot to plan dinner. Chicken breasts, a carton of mushrooms that needed using, and whatever cream was left in the fridge. It’s…

I made this the first time on a night I did not want to stand over a stove. Lasagna wants you to layer noodle, sauce, cheese, repeat, and by the…

I make garlic butter steak bites and potatoes on the nights I want steak-and-potatoes energy without actually cooking a whole steak. Dice it up, marinate it while the potatoes go…

That’s the short version of how this crockpot chicken and dumplings recipe ended up on repeat in my kitchen. It’s the kind of dinner that needs almost nothing from you…

I made this the first cold weekend of the season, mostly because I had three onions sitting on the counter that needed a job. French onion soup was the obvious…

The first time I made this, I almost skipped the gravy packets because I thought “why not just use cornstarch and call it a day.” Glad I didn’t. There’s something…