Dinner Winners

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

So here's the summer lunch situation that changed how I think about salads entirely. I was trying to figure out...

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

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

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

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