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So every summer there's a week — usually late July, usually when the kids have something every single evening, Dan...

So rice bowls have become the format I reach for most reliably when I want a real dinner that comes...

So I want to talk about something real for a minute before we get into the recipes, because I think...

So the oven ban in our house runs from roughly mid-June through late August, and I enforce it with real...

So here's the truth about BBQ sides—they're part of the cookout that people remember just as much as the main...

So if there's one protein that carries our family through an entire summer without anyone getting bored with it, it's...

So the question I get asked the most by friends and neighbours as soon as the weather turns warm is...

So fish tacos are the dinner that completely changed how Dan and I think about quick weeknight seafood, and I...

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 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 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...