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Meatloaf night is a whole feeling: the loaf pan, the ketchup glaze going glossy in the oven, the promise of a proper dinner with leftovers for sandwiches. This lentil meatloaf delivers every bit of that feeling, built entirely from a bag of lentils and some pantry loyalists. The lentils stand in for ground meat with…
Some dinners are projects, and some dinners are hugs. Chili mac is a hug. It’s everything good about a simmering pot of chili — smoky cumin, tomatoes, beans, corn — and everything good about mac and cheese, fused into one dish that cooks in a single pot in about thirty minutes. The elbows simmer right…
You pour a thin, unassuming batter into a pie dish, scatter some bacon and cheese on top, and slide it into the oven looking like nothing special. Forty-five minutes later, the pie has quietly done the impossible: it has made its own crust on the bottom, set itself into a tender, cheesy custard in the…
Take everything you love about potstickers — the crispy golden bottoms, the juicy pork filling, that dipping sauce you could drink with a straw — and imagine it deconstructed into a big, slurpy noodle bowl. Crispy pan-fried dumplings lounging on a tangle of chewy noodles, crisp-tender vegetables, and a sauce that hits sweet, savory, tangy,…
Chicken biryani is one of those dishes that has a reputation for being complicated that it has not entirely earned. Yes, it takes longer than a weeknight stir-fry. Yes, it has more steps than a one-pot soup. But the steps themselves are not complicated — they are just specific, and specific is different from difficult….
The words “healthy bake” have a reputation problem. They conjure something beige, slightly dense, virtuous in the way that requires willpower rather than desire, and eaten because it is good for you rather than because it tastes good. This recipe is here to correct that reputation. The Quinoa Lentil Spinach Bake is the healthy bake…
This chicken bake is the one that earns a second look from everyone at the table before the first bite — the glossy, honey-cranberry glaze catching the light, the bright red cranberries still whole against the golden chicken, the white feta crumbled over everything in a way that looks like someone thought about it. It…
Fried rice is one of those dinners everyone loves, but nobody loves standing over a ripping-hot wok on a Tuesday. Enter the crockpot. This dump-and-go version turns the takeout classic into true hands-off comfort: cubed chicken, rice, broth, frozen peas and carrots, and a savory soy-ginger sauce all go into the slow cooker at once,…
French onion soup is one of the most deeply satisfying things in the world — the caramelized onion broth, the toasted bread, the molten Gruyère pulled in strings from the surface of the crock. It is also, in its original form, a fairly committed undertaking. This recipe takes everything that makes French onion soup extraordinary…
There are two kinds of chicken enchiladas. There are the ones made with red enchilada sauce from a can, which are fine and quick and entirely respectable. And then there are the ones made with a from-scratch sour cream sauce — a simple roux-thickened white sauce with sour cream, green chiles, cumin, and garlic stirred…
