Dinner
Lemon Herb Chicken Rice Skillet
One pan, thigh meat, rice cooked in the chicken juices. The lemon goes in twice on purpose.
Recipes
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Fifteen dishes I've cooked enough times to write down. Use the filter to narrow by category or search by ingredient.
Vegetarian
Chickpea Spinach Coconut Curry
The pantry curry I make when there's nothing in the fridge. Toast the spices in the oil first.
Family
Creamy Tomato Basil Pasta Bake
Boxed mac and cheese energy with grown-up flavor. The cream goes in cold; don't pre-cook the sauce.
Vegetarian
Smoky Black Bean Sweet Potato Tacos
Sweet potatoes have to char on the edges or it's just baked dinner. The lime crema is two ingredients.
Seafood
Garlic Butter Salmon Grain Bowls
My "I forgot to plan dinner" meal. Pat the salmon dry; wet salmon will not crisp.
Soup
Lentil Vegetable Soup with Rosemary
From my grandmother's Sunday pot. The rosemary goes in at the end, not the start.
Sheet Pan
Honey Mustard Sheet Pan Chicken
The "no dishes" Wednesday dinner. Cut the potatoes smaller than the chicken so they finish together.
Quick
Vegetable Fried Rice with Eggs
Cold rice is non-negotiable. Hot rice equals mush. I cook the rice the night before.
Breakfast
Apple Cinnamon Baked Oatmeal
Make on Sunday, slice on weekday mornings, reheat in 30 seconds. Better than instant oatmeal in every way.
Quick
Pesto White Bean Pasta
25-minute pasta. Loosen the pesto with hot pasta water before it touches the noodles.
Dinner
Greek Chicken Pita Plates
Yogurt-marinated chicken charred in a skillet, warm pitas, two-ingredient tzatziki, chopped salad.
Vegetarian
Sesame Ginger Tofu Bowls
Crispy on the outside, custardy in the middle, glazed in a sweet-savory sesame-ginger sauce.
Seafood
Shrimp Lemon Orzo Skillet
Orzo cooked risotto-style in seasoned broth, finished with butter and parmesan, lemon-bright at the end.
Family
Quinoa Stuffed Bell Peppers
Halved peppers stuffed with seasoned quinoa, black beans, corn, and melted cheese. Par-cook the peppers first.
Family
Turkey Zucchini Meatballs
Tender, juicy turkey meatballs with grated zucchini hidden inside. Squeeze the zucchini hard.
How I picked these fifteen
This isn't a "best of the internet" list. It's the recipes I cook most often in my own kitchen, the ones I've made enough times to know the small things that aren't on a normal recipe card — like why cold rice fries and hot rice steams, or why the cream goes into the pasta bake without being pre-cooked.
If you're brand new to the site, the Start Here page suggests an order to cook them in. Otherwise pick whatever fits your evening: a sheet pan night, a soup night, a pasta night, a curry, a tacos night, a stuffed-pepper Sunday. The collection covers breakfast, lunch, dinner, vegetarian, and what to do with leftover rice.
More recipes will be added when I have something useful to write down. I'd rather publish fifteen recipes I'd cook for friends than fifty I'd just read about.