Dinner Recipes

The farmer at the market watched me circle her stall three times before she finally said something. I was clearly lost, staring at the pile … Read more

I swore I wasn’t a turkey breast person. For years, I’d pass it by at the holiday market, reaching instead for the whole bird or … Read more

My neighbor Margaret asked why I couldn’t just use the boxed stuffing mix and call it a day. I started to explain why that wouldn’t … Read more

This was supposed to be chili. I mean, a proper, all-day, let-it-simmer-until-the-house-smells-like-a-football-Sunday kind of chili. I had the ground beef browning, the onions sweating, and … Read more

I was standing in the parking lot of a specialty grocery store last November when the cold air hit me with a mix of woodsmoke … Read more

I wasn’t expecting cooking advice from my accountant, but there I was, sorting through a pile of receipts in his cluttered office, listening to him … Read more

My neighbor Maria watched me struggle with a too-heavy bag of acorn squash from the farmers’ market and didn’t say anything at first. Then she … Read more

I had refused to believe that squash soup could be anything more than a sad, watery bowl of disappointment for about fifteen years. Honestly, I … Read more

There used to be a tiny Italian place tucked behind a laundromat on the corner of Elm and 4th that made a sausage and bean … Read more

The neighborhood chili cook-off was in six hours and I had completely forgotten. I’d signed up weeks ago, then promptly buried the reminder under a … Read more