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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 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 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 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 it's a Tuesday in late June, the kind of afternoon where the air conditioning in our house is fighting ...

So, when Dan decided he wanted to learn how to grill, I made a decision that I'm still proud of—I ...

So the first time I made shrimp kebabs for a backyard cookout, I did everything wrong. I used small shrimp ...

So here's a scenario that doesn't come up a lot in our house, but when it does, I genuinely don't ...

So I'll paint you a picture. Last August, Dan decided we were going to do a family camping trip up ...

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 ...