cooking recipes
Cheeseburger Pie Recipe: An Oven-Baked Ground Beef Pie That Makes Its Own Crust My neighbor clipped this from a magazine in 1976 and never stopped making it, and it is still the first thing requested at family reunions. That card has been in her kitchen for fifty years, grease-spotted and soft at the folds, and […]
Homemade Vegetable Beef Soup My mom used to make this every single Sunday during fall, and the smell alone would pull us all into the kitchen before she even called us for dinner. I swear, my brother would stand by the stove with a spoon just waiting. I made a huge pot of […]
Alabama Pecan Bread: The Sweet, Nutty Loaf That Tastes Like a Southern Sunday Morning I am not going to pretend I invented this one. My grandmother made a version of Alabama pecan bread every Sunday morning, and by the time I was tall enough to reach the oven rack, the whole house smelled like toasted […]
Alfredo Lasagna Soup: One-Pot Comfort With Broken Noodles and Real Sausage My husband walked in from work on a Thursday, dropped his bag in the hallway, came into the kitchen, looked at the pot bubbling on the stove, and said, "Whatever that is, I'm having three bowls." He was not exaggerating, and he went back […]
Crispy Oven Fried Chicken: Juicy Drumsticks With No Deep Fryer Needed Last Tuesday night my husband walked into the kitchen, stopped dead in the doorway, and said, "Wait. Did you order KFC?" I did not say a word. I just pointed at the oven with the serving spoon still in my hand, and the look […]
Cheap Beef and Corn Casserole: The 5-Ingredient Oven Bake That Feeds Four I want to be honest about how this one entered my kitchen, because it was not a decision. It was a Tuesday. I had nothing planned, nothing thawed, and about eleven dollars left in the grocery budget for the week, which is a […]
Cranberry Bacon Cream Cheese Dip: The Holiday Appetizer That Disappears First Every holiday party I have ever thrown has had a moment, usually about four minutes in, where somebody stands near the dip with the spoon still in their hand and says something like, oh no, I already went back. This cranberry bacon cream cheese […]
Christmas Shortbread Cookies: 4 Ingredients, No Mixer, No Chilling Every December, my grandmother made the same thing. She started before anyone else in that house was awake, and by the time the rest of us dragged ourselves downstairs there would already be a tin sitting out on the counter, and that smell would be in […]
John Wayne Casserole: The 5-Ingredient Ground Beef Bake That Feeds Eight My uncle clipped the recipe out of a magazine in 1979 and taped it inside the cupboard door above the stove, where it lived for about as long as that kitchen existed. He made it every time the whole family came in from somewhere, […]
5-Ingredient Chicken Casserole: Creamy, Cheap, and Done in One Dish I made this 5-ingredient chicken casserole on a Wednesday in the middle of a week that had already taken more out of me than it gave back. It was roughly quarter past five, the good light was already gone, and I had exactly one functioning […]