Dinner Recipes

There used to be a tiny diner off Highway 99 called The Rusty Skillet that made the best ground beef and rice skillet I’ve ever … Read more

I was standing in the frozen food aisle last Tuesday, staring at a bag of pre-made honey garlic chicken, when it hit me — the … Read more

The neighborhood chili cook-off was in six hours and I’d completely forgotten. Everyone else would be bringing their prize-winning, secret-ingredient, slow-simmered-all-weekend chili. I had a … Read more

This was supposed to be a warm roasted vegetable bowl. The kind where everything gets tossed in oil, spread on a sheet pan, and emerges … Read more

There used to be a tiny, neon-lit place tucked behind a laundromat on the corner of 7th and Elm that made the most ridiculous honey … Read more

I was at the hardware store, of all places, picking up a new faucet for the guest bathroom. The guy behind the counter, an older … Read more

My neighbor Karen wasn’t trying to impress me. I’d stopped by to return her garden shears — honestly, I’d borrowed them three weeks earlier and … Read more

There used to be a tiny diner off Highway 17, a place called The Rusty Spoon, that made a soup so good it felt like … Read more

My neighbor, Mrs. Gable, wasn’t trying to impress anyone. I’d stopped by to borrow a ladder on a rainy Tuesday afternoon, and the smell hit … Read more

My neighbor, an older Italian woman named Rosa, watched me wrestling with a sticky, uncooperative dough on my patio table last spring. She didn’t say … Read more