Comfort Food Classics

The little carved faces staring up from the dinner plates, that’s what gets me every single time. Not the taste first, not even the smell … Read more

I want a breakfast that tastes like a warm hug but doesn’t require me to stand over the stove flipping pancakes for an hour. That’s … Read more

The acorn squash had been sitting on my counter for almost a week. I bought it on a whim during a farmers market trip, seduced … Read more

“Mom, can we have pork chops again? The crunchy ones?” My eight-year-old asked this halfway through a Tuesday, fork suspended over a plate of leftover … Read more

I figured creamy pumpkin chili would taste like dessert disguised as dinner — sweet, pumpkin-pie-ish, and honestly a little confusing. It took about one simmering … Read more

“Butternut squash mac and cheese? Isn’t that just healthy food in disguise?” My sister-in-law said that the first time I told her about this recipe. … Read more

My husband did not trust sauerkraut in a skillet dinner. That’s the honest truth. He grew up with the stuff boiled into oblivion on a … Read more

I made this stuffed acorn squash wrong for three years before I got it right. Not like, slightly off wrong. I mean the kind of … Read more

For a while, I just accepted that fall weeknight dinners were going to be either a sad bowl of takeout or a complicated mess that … Read more

That first whiff of charred peaches hitting a hot grill—smoky and sweet all at once—still stops me in my tracks. It was late August, and … Read more