Dinner Recipes

There used to be a tiny, wood-paneled diner on the corner of 5th and Main called The Rusty Spoon that made a loaded baked potato … Read more

My sister-in-law, Jen, asked me why I couldn’t just dump a whole squash in the pot, skin and all. I remember the moment so clearly. … Read more

I wasn’t expecting cooking advice from a taxi driver, but there I was, stuck in traffic on a rainy Tuesday evening, listening to a man … Read more

The light flickered slightly, illuminating a lonely tray of bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs that had been sitting there since Sunday’s grocery run. I wasn’t hungry, … Read more

My husband asked why I couldn’t just toss the salmon directly into the honey garlic sauce instead of searing it first. I started to explain … Read more

It was raining sideways on a Tuesday in late November, the kind of gray, miserable afternoon that makes you question every life choice that led … Read more

Lena wasn’t trying to impress anyone. I’d stopped by her place last November to pick up a book I’d loaned her months ago, and the … Read more

I wasn’t expecting cooking advice from the IT guy, but there I was, sitting on a folding chair in a breakroom, listening to him describe … Read more

This was supposed to be a simple side dish. I grabbed the wrong jar of jam, the stove was set to low instead of medium, … Read more

It was 11:17 PM on a particularly grumpy Tuesday, and I was hit with a craving so specific it felt like a fever dream. I … Read more