Dinner Recipes

November, and the only thing I want is a perfect herb butter roasted turkey. My hands are deep in a bowl of softened butter, the … Read more

The toasty, brown-sugar scent of butter and pecans browning together in the oven—the kind of smell that creeps out of the kitchen and wraps around … Read more

The Saturday market haul was a disaster. I’d gone in with a list—a sensible list—and come out with a butternut squash the size of a … Read more

The skin on that acorn squash, all dark green ridges and deep orange valleys, is what gets me every time. Honestly, a good roasted squash … Read more

I had been looking for a butternut squash soup that actually tasted like something — not just a bowl of sweet, orange puree that left … Read more

I want bratwurst tonight. Not grilled, not in a bun, but simmered low and slow in a skillet with sauerkraut until the edges of the … Read more

That sizzle—the sharp, spitting hiss of chicken skin hitting a hot pan, followed by that sweet-sticky smell of honey caramelizing in garlic butter—still stops me … Read more

The first real chill of October hit our kitchen windows hard that evening, and the only thing I wanted was a pot of something that … Read more

My first encounter with elote was on a sticky summer evening in a parking lot off Cesar Chavez Street in Los Angeles. A woman with … Read more

I figured the best Italian pasta salad with pepperoni would take all afternoon. It took about fifteen minutes for that assumption to fall apart completely. … Read more