From the Kitchen
Simple, tested recipes for real weeknights — cooked in a real kitchen, written down so they work the first time.
Featured Recipe
There is a specific kind of tired that only a Tuesday can produce. The kind where you open the fridge, stare for a full minute, and close it again because nothing in there looks like dinner. That was the exact scene in my kitchen last fall when this casserole was born. I had a pound ... Read more
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I will be honest with you: I have spent an embarrassing amount of money on restaurant broccoli cheddar soup. There was a stretch a few years ago when, every time life got stressful, I would drive straight to the nearest bakery-cafe and order a bread bowl of it. It became my comfort ritual. Then one ... Read more
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I was deeply skeptical the first time someone told me to put cottage cheese in pasta sauce. Cottage cheese belonged in two places in my mind: next to canned peaches at a 1980s salad bar, or in lasagna filling. It did not belong in alfredo. But my sister, who has the persistence of a telemarketer, ... Read more
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Some recipes earn their place in my kitchen through years of tradition. This one earned it through pure laziness, and I mean that as the highest praise. A few years ago, I was craving fajitas on a night when I had zero interest in standing over a skillet, babysitting strips of chicken in batches. So ... Read more
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The first time I made lentil soup, I was cooking for a friend who had just gone vegan, and I was quietly panicking. I had this idea in my head that vegan food meant compromise, that without butter or broth made from bones, soup would taste like punishment. I stood in my kitchen staring at ... Read more
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If there is one recipe that made me fall in love with my air fryer, it is this one. The first time I cooked chicken thighs in it, I stood in my kitchen peeking through the little window like a kid waiting for cookies to bake. Twenty-some minutes later I pulled out the most golden, ... Read more
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I used to think of salmon as a weekend dinner. Something that required a plan, a hot oven, and at least a little bit of ceremony. Then one Tuesday night, staring into the fridge with zero energy and a pack of salmon fillets I had bought with the best of intentions, I tried the air ... Read more
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I will be honest with you: my first attempt at homemade french fries in the air fryer was a disaster. I cut up some potatoes, threw them in the basket, and twenty minutes later I had pale, limp, steamy potato sticks that tasted like disappointment. My husband ate them politely and said, “These are… fine,” ... Read more
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Let me tell you about the Thanksgiving that changed my mind about brussels sprouts. For most of my life, I associated them with the sad, gray, boiled orbs of my childhood, the ones we all pushed around our plates. Then my sister-in-law showed up with a sheet pan of roasted sprouts, all caramelized and crispy-edged, ... Read more
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There is a particular smell that means fall has arrived in my house, and it is this stew. Onions and garlic softening in a skillet, beef browning in batches, thyme and bay leaf going into the slow cooker at seven in the morning. By five o’clock the whole house smells amazing, and the best part ... Read more
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