Tag: meal-for-two

So, the summer Dan came home from a work trip to Hawaii and spent approximately three consecutive days trying to ...

So here's the thing about veggie wraps that I want to address directly from the start — the mediocre veggie ...

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

So here's something I had to come to terms with as a working mom with two kids home all summer—snacks ...

So I know "soup" sounds like exactly the wrong word for July, and I get that reaction every single time ...

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

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

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 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 summer lunch is a category of meal that I think about differently than any other, and here's why. During ...

So I'll be completely honest with you—I resisted smoothie bowls for an embarrassingly long time. I'm a trained cook with ...

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 ...

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 ...

So there is a specific moment every summer that I have come to think of as the Pasta Salad Moment, ...