No Cook Creations

So I know "soup" sounds like exactly the wrong word for July, and I get that reaction every single time...

So the summer that really taught me how to pack a proper picnic was the summer Jake was six and...

So the summer dessert situation in our house operates on a very specific philosophy that took me a few years...

So there's a specific threshold in Chicago summers—usually hits sometime in late July—where the temperature in the kitchen is genuinely...

So every summer I have a moment — usually sometime in mid-July — where I buy a watermelon that's so...

So, the summer Dan announced we were doing a full beach day—actual beach, not just the neighborhood pool—I went into...

So summer lunch is a category of meal that I think about differently than any other, and here's why. During...

So there's a specific kind of summer evening where cooking an actual dinner feels genuinely impossible. You know the one—it's...

So that summer, I figured out that the best cookout sides don't always involve turning on a single burner, a...

So I'll be completely honest with you—I resisted smoothie bowls for an embarrassingly long time. I'm a trained cook with...

So every summer without fail, I go through what I privately call my "farmers market problem." I walk through the...

So it was one of those Chicago Julys where the humidity hits you like a wall the second you step...

So last Fourth of July, I'm standing at the grill with tongs in one hand and a juice box in...

Here is a confession from someone who has spent fifteen years cooking professionally and still manages to go completely blank...

So there is a specific moment every summer that I have come to think of as the Pasta Salad Moment,...

Every summer, without fail, around the second week of July, I am in my kitchen at 7 am, packing a...

The 5-minute side dish that appears at literally every single summer meal So my neighbor Karen brought this salad to...

So every summer, there is that one week in July where it is 94 degrees in suburban Chicago, and the...

So I've spent 15 years cooking professionally, and I'll be real with you — the most stressful cooking I've ever...

The Story, As It Happened So, Tuesday at 5:47 p.m. My 12-year-old has soccer practice at 6:30; my 8-year-old is...