Tag: leftover-makeover

So here's a scene from about three summers ago that pretty much sums up why the crockpot became my secret ...

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

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

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

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

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

So I need to tell you about the summer I completely stopped apologizing for serving vegetables as the main event ...