Category Dinner

I carved the first batch of these wrong. Cut the tops off too close to the stem, and by the time the peppers softened in the oven, half the “faces”…

I made these the first year my nephew decided he was “too old” for trick-or-treating but still wanted a Halloween dinner. Crescent dough, a handful of pantry pizza stuff, and…

I’ve made a version of buffalo chicken filling more times than I can count at this point, and taquitos are where it belongs. Not casserole, not dip — rolled up…

I made a batch of these for and they were gone before I even got the second batch of buns sliced. That’s the thing about sliders — nobody eats one.…

That’s the whole pitch. Ground beef, tortilla chips, cheese, broiler. Twenty minutes, most of it hands-off. I know nacho purists want individual layers, careful chip placement, three passes under the…

This isn’t the mayo-heavy, one-note spinach dip you get at a chain restaurant. It’s sharper. There’s Parmesan doing the heavy lifting instead of a wall of sour cream, plus canned…

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…