Dinner Recipes

There used to be a tiny wine bar tucked behind a vintage shop in Portland—three tables, mismatched chairs, and a chalkboard menu that changed daily. … Read more

My neighbor, Jen, wasn’t trying to impress anyone. I’d stopped by to borrow a cup of brown sugar on a random Tuesday night, and the … Read more

This was supposed to be a simple roast chicken. I had the bird, the lemon, the garlic—the whole plan mapped out in my head. But … Read more

My neighbor Marco asked why I couldn’t just use the cornbread from the diner down the street for my Thanksgiving stuffing. I started to explain … Read more

It was 10:47 PM on a random Tuesday in November, and I had an overwhelming, almost irrational craving for Thanksgiving dinner. Not the whole shebang … Read more

My sister asked why I couldn’t just use the canned cranberry sauce. I started to explain why that wouldn’t work—then stopped. I mean, she had … Read more

I swore I hated cranberry sauce. For years—decades, really—I treated it like a necessary evil on the Thanksgiving table, that jiggly, canned log of tart-sweet … Read more

The summer I turned thirty, my neighbor Rose saw me hauling bags of groceries up three flights of stairs for the third time that week. … Read more

I was standing in the frozen foods aisle at the grocery store last November, squinting at a box of pre-made stuffing mix, when this overwhelming … Read more

Let me tell you about the first time I tasted a green bean casserole that actually made me stop talking mid-sentence. I was at my … Read more