When it’s cold outside, it’s nice to tuck in to a comforting dinner. Here are some weeknight-friendly dinners that will help keep you warm.
Main course
Recipes for main dishes for lunch and dinner. Includes omnivorous, vegetarian, vegan, and gluten free options.
There are few more comforting meals than classic mac and cheese. It’s simple and rich kid food that grown ups love, too. And this baked Brussels sprouts mac and cheese is one I turn to again and again. (Adding some vegetable matter makes me feel better about eating a dish that’s mostly carbs and cheese.) …
There are days when all I want to eat are crispy chicken tenders. And maybe some french fries. (Though crispy roasted potatoes will work, too.) And I’ll be honest that is pretty much every day. It’s not that I don’t love a broad range of cuisines, from Sichuan fish-fragrant eggplant to Mediterranean baked sweet potatoes …
This is a later winter soup. A weeknight soup. A mostly from-the-pantry soup. A simple throw-it-together, simmer, blend, garnish and ladle into bowls and curl up on the couch in your sweatpants and watch some Netflix kind of soup. I first learned about this soup when I came across it on Luisa’s site about five years …
This Swiss chard and gruyere strata is the just the thing for a lazy weekend morning. It’s a one-pan, no-fuss kind of meal that has enough greens to nod toward respectability and enough cheese to feel indulgent. It’s somewhere between a quiche and stuffing, but less work than either. Slice up some bread into rough …
I love a good baked pasta dish. Something that makes the kitchen smell like garlic with a tomato sauce that burbles around a top layer of deeply burnished cheese. And while there are plenty of ways to get there, this baked ziti is my take on the Italian-American classic, and it’s a good one. (I …