There is a can of tuna in my cupboard right now that I will forget about until roughly Thursday. It is the most useful thing I own and the last thing I think of. A tin turns into dinner in ten minutes, and a fresh steak turns into dinner that looks like you made an…
It’s half six, you have just walked in, and the thought of washing a second pan is enough to make you reach for your phone and order something. I know that feeling well. A skillet dinner is the thing that reliably gets me past it, because the sauce builds itself in the pan while the…
Cooking for one is a skill nobody teaches you, and most recipes actively work against it. Scale a four-serving dinner down and you end up holding half an egg and a quarter of an onion. I ate a lot of toast before I worked this out. Everything below was written for one person from the…
If you’re like me, salmon is what you buy when you want dinner to feel like an occasion and still be on the table before you lose interest. I have overcooked more fillets than I’d like to admit. What separates the ones I’m proud of from the ones I serve anyway is almost never the…
Rice bowls settled an argument in my house that had been running for years. Everyone wants something slightly different and nobody wants to cook twice. You make one thing, put the toppings on the table, and let people build what they actually want to eat. I have not gone back to plating dinners since. 1….
A potato bowl is what happens when a baked potato stops behaving like a side dish. Potatoes underneath, something hot on top, something crunchy over that. They cost very little, they fill people up properly, and I have yet to find a thing in my fridge that doesn’t work on top. This is what I…
Pizza on a weeknight only works for me if I do not have to make the dough. The moment a recipe says to let it rise for an hour, I am ordering in. Every one of these starts with bread somebody else already baked. Dinner in about the time it takes the oven to come…
Pita gets treated as the thing you tear up next to a dip, which I think is a waste of a very good bread. It holds a whole dinner, it warms through in under a minute, and it is just as happy cold. Once I stopped thinking of it as a side, about half my…
Some nights you want dinner, and you also want to feel fine an hour after eating it. In my house that used to mean something sad and beige. It really doesn’t have to. Nothing here is fried, and none of it leans on a pan full of butter to taste like something. 1. Grilled Grouper…
Some nights I want a proper dinner and absolutely no plates to wash. Pita is my answer to that, and I’m slightly embarrassed by how often I reach for it. Warm bread, something hot off the pan, a sauce, and whatever salad is in the fridge. It eats like a real meal and leaves almost…