Dinner Recipes

There used to be a tiny farm-to-table restaurant tucked in the back of an old bookshop in Hudson, New York, that served the most incredible … Read more

I was digging through my freezer last Tuesday, searching for a bag of frozen peas I knew was in there somewhere, when a half-empty bottle … Read more

The chili cook-off was in six hours and I’d completely forgotten. My buddy Mark had been talking trash for weeks about his “award-winning, three-day brisket … Read more

Someone asked me last week why I always mash the sweet potatoes by hand instead of using a mixer. I started to explain why that … Read more

I had refused to even try stuffing for, oh, about twenty-eight years. That’s a long time to hold a grudge against bread cubes, I know. … Read more

This was supposed to be lasagna. The real deal—the kind that takes an hour to layer, another hour to bake, and leaves you with a … Read more

My neighbor, a retired schoolteacher named Carol, watched me wrestling with a bag of green beans on my front porch one crisp November afternoon. She … Read more

Maggie wasn’t making a big deal of it. I’d stopped by to drop off a book I’d borrowed, and the smell hit me before I … Read more

I was standing in the frozen foods aisle last November, staring at a whole turkey that could have fed a small army, when the smell … Read more

My sister asked why I couldn’t just use the microwave to soften the squash before roasting it. I started to explain why that wouldn’t work—then … Read more