Cooking Time

So the sheet pan dinner entered our regular rotation the summer I hit what I now call "the dishwashing threshold"...

So quesadillas are the dinner I make more than any other single recipe across the whole summer, and I want...

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

So here's a question I get asked constantly, in various forms, from other parents who know I cook professionally—"What do...

So the first time I made steak kabobs that were actually good—not just edible, not just functional, but genuinely impressive—I...

So pasta is the one food in our house that transcends every season, every mood, and every level of dinner-making...

So I want to start this one by being completely honest about what "healthy" means in my kitchen, because I...

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 here's the situation that this article was born out of. It was the Friday before a long Fourth of...

So last summer Maya went through a phase where she declared—completely out of nowhere on a random Thursday—that she wanted...

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

So I want to start this article with complete transparency about what "kid-friendly" actually means in our house, because I...

So there's a very specific kind of summer evening that this recipe was born for. It's hot, it's a Wednesday,...

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

So here's the thing about using a crockpot in summer that I had to learn by actually doing it—it feels...

So I've said it before, and I'll keep saying it every summer until everyone believes me—boiling corn is a crime...

So the summer I finally committed to Sunday meal prep was the summer everything changed for our weeknights. I'm talking...

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...