Category Dinner

I used to be a canned cranberry sauce person. Not proud of it, but there it is — the can, the ridges, the slightly ominous jiggle. Then one year I…

There’s a version of this dish at every holiday table I’ve ever sat at, and for years it was the marshmallow kind — the one that shows up looking more…

The first time I baked my potatoes instead of boiling them, I almost didn’t believe the texture difference. Boiled potatoes soak up water they don’t need. Baked ones stay dry…

The first Thanksgiving I hosted, I tried to get clever with green bean casserole — fresh green beans, a homemade mushroom sauce, the works. It took ninety minutes and tasted…

I burned the first batch of this. Not badly — just enough feta browning at the edges of the dish that I panicked and pulled it five minutes early, before…

Some nights I don’t have it in me to stand over a pot stirring risotto-adjacent anything. That’s basically what this is — broccoli cheddar soup and chicken and orzo had…

I keep a rotisserie chicken in my cart almost every grocery run now, mostly because of this casserole. It’s the kind of dinner where you dump, stir, layer, and walk…

I made these on a Tuesday when the fridge had exactly three things in it: a pound of ground beef, half a bag of fries, and a can of Manwich…

I’ve made a version of taco dip for pretty much every Halloween party I’ve hosted, but this is the one that gets photographed before anyone touches a chip. The trick…

This is the dump-and-bake dirty rice that’s been all over group chats lately — beef, rice, two kinds of canned broth, a stick of butter, one pan. You don’t brown…