cooking recipes
Marry Me Chicken Pasta: The One-Pan Dinner That Makes Everybody Ask for the Recipe There is a reason this dish has the name it has. You make it once, you set it on the table bubbling and golden at the edges, and within about four minutes somebody across the room says something to the effect […]
Sweet Condensed Milk Dinner Rolls: No-Knead Rolls That Rise Themselves I have made a lot of bread in this kitchen, and most of it has asked something of me. You have to feel the dough. You have to time the rise. You have to stand there and knead for ten minutes while somebody in the […]
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 […]