Dinner Recipes

My husband had claimed to hate fish for eighteen years. Eighteen years of polite declines at dinner parties, of pushing salmon around his plate at … Read more

Let me tell you about the night this soup almost didn’t happen. My friend Jenna was over, and I was stressing about what to make … Read more

This was supposed to be a simple poached chicken for a salad. I had the whole week planned out—healthy lunches, light dinners, the works. But … Read more

I was standing in line at the hardware store, of all places, holding a bag of replacement screws I didn’t really need, when the guy … Read more

Let me tell you about the day I fell hard for a pot of chili. It was a Tuesday. Not a holiday, not a birthday, … Read more

It was 10:47 PM on a damp Tuesday in March, and I had a craving that made absolutely no sense. Not for chocolate, not for … Read more

I was trying to make a green bean casserole. You know, the one with the cream of mushroom soup and those crispy fried onions that … Read more

My brother had sworn he hated squash for thirty-seven years. Thirty-seven years. He’d push any orange-tinged vegetable to the edge of his plate like it … Read more

I was standing in line at the post office, of all places, clutching a package of mismatched socks I was returning to my mother-in-law, when … Read more

My neighbor, a woman named Clara who ran the community garden with an iron will and a heart of gold, watched me one Saturday morning … Read more