cooking recipes
Cranberry Strawberry Jam: The Christmas Jar That Took Me Three Years to Get Right My mother mentioned once, offhand, on a phone call in September, that she missed the cranberry-strawberry preserves her grandmother used to put up every December. She said it the way people mention things they are not asking for. I thought […]
Sausage Breakfast Muffins: Mix Them Tonight, Bake Them in the Morning My husband grabs two of these every morning before he is properly awake, and for a long time I thought that was just because he was hungry. It was not. It was because I finally stopped getting up twenty minutes early to cook breakfast, […]
Easy Peanut Butter Caramel Reese's Cookies (No Flour Recipe) My mom used to hide these in the back of the pantry when I was growing up. Not because we weren't allowed to have them — because they'd vanish in about twenty minutes if she didn't. To this day, I still think that's the highest form […]
Party Potato Puffs: 4 Ingredients, 10 Cents Each, and the Best Thing to Do With Leftover Mashed Potatoes Every Thanksgiving I end up with a bowl of mashed potatoes nobody finished, and for years I would put it in the fridge and then throw it away three days later. That was about a dollar and […]
Easy Pineapple Poke Cake Recipe With Cream Cheese Frosting My mother-in-law brought this to Sunday dinner last month and I watched three grown men go completely silent while they ate. No jokes, no small talk — just forks scraping plates and someone quietly asking if there was more. That's the kind of reaction only a […]
Angel Chicken: Creamy Garlic Sauce, One Skillet, Thirty Minutes to the Table Some nights you want a project. This is not that night. Angel chicken is the meal I make when I want something that tastes like somebody took care of me, and I want it in under half an hour, with one pan to […]
Easy Slow Cooker Salisbury Steak Recipe (Crockpot Comfort Food) Growing up, Salisbury steak was one of those meals my mom only pulled out on the nights she was too tired to fuss. And honestly? Those ended up being some of my absolute favorite dinners. There's just something about tender beef patties swimming in rich, homemade-tasting […]
Classic Southern Pecan Pie: The One That Finally Sets Properly Every Time I have made a lot of pies that did not work, and almost all of them failed the same way. The edges set. The middle stayed liquid. You cut into it and watch a puddle of corn syrup run off the knife onto […]
Creamy Chicken Enchiladas: The Only Ones My Kids Will Actually Eat Every family has one. Somebody's mother, somebody's aunt, some version of this that they refuse to eat anything else. For us it is these creamy chicken enchiladas, and it started with my mother doing this exact dish on Sunday nights specifically because nobody wanted […]
How to Roast Turkey in an Oven Bag: Juicier Meat, Less Cleanup, One Thing to Read First I started roasting turkey in an oven bag around the third Thanksgiving of cooking for other people, and I have not gone back. My reason is not that the meat is magically better. It is that it is […]