Dinner: A Love Story

It All Begins At the Family Table

  • Sausage Bake with Tomatoes & Feta

    Sausage Bake with Tomatoes & Feta

    A week ago, Andy and I were both packing for separate trips — me to Seattle for fun, and him to Boston for work — when the subject of dinner came up,... The post Sausage Bake with Tomatoes & Feta...

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  • Sheet-Pan Gnocchi with Mushroom Bolognese

    Sheet-Pan Gnocchi with Mushroom Bolognese

    I know what you might be thinking: Bolognese is not a sheet-pan dinner. Bolognese is not a simple dinner, a shortcut dinner, a dinner conducive to the very American instinct... The post Sheet-Pan...

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  • Where I Eat on the Upper West Side

    Where I Eat on the Upper West Side

    When it comes to restaurants, the Upper West Side of Manhattan is famously casual and family-friendly…and a little slim on destination spots, but that does not mean we haven’t found... The post...

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  • Potato Salad with Green Goodies

    Potato Salad with Green Goodies

    Greetings eaters and readers. Today, I’d like to get back to basics a bit, and present a recipe for my Potato Salad with Green Goodies. It’s one of those why-didn’t-I-think-of-this-before... The...

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  • One Meal Fits All

    One Meal Fits All

    A few months ago, during the holidays, when my whole family was under the same roof at the same time — a somewhat miraculous feat these days — I told... The post One Meal Fits All appeared first...

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  • The Weekday Vegetarian Challenge

    The Weekday Vegetarian Challenge

    Happy Near Year, Readers and Eaters! Just wanted to let you know that I’m heading up a 2025 Weekday Vegetarian challenge over on Substack this month. The first week’s meal... The post The Weekday...

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  • The Dinner: A Love Story Newsletter

    The Dinner: A Love Story Newsletter

    Hello faithful blog readers. Can I tell you how much I love that you are still here, almost 15 years after I wrote my first post ever on the Dinner:... The post The Dinner: A Love Story Newsletter...

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  • Fall Comfort Food, German Style

    Fall Comfort Food, German Style

    Maybe it’s because I’ve been wearing my Operation Connect Goggles™ all the time lately, but when I flipped through Luisa Weiss’s new book Classic German Cooking last week, my first impulse...

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  • Carolina Gelen’s Butter Beans Alla Vodka

    Carolina Gelen’s Butter Beans Alla Vodka

    I have such a crush on Carolina Gelen. And I have ever since my daughter forwarded me her hugely popular instagram account during the pandemic a few years ago, writing only... The post Carolina...

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  • Come with me to Mexico

    Come with me to Mexico

    Greetings readers and eaters! I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be hosting another food tour in the spring of 2025 — this time in one of the richest culinary regions... The post Come with me to...

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  • Creamy Peanutty Cabbage and Tofu

    Creamy Peanutty Cabbage and Tofu

    There’s a section in Get Simple devoted to “store-bought saviors” (i.e. products to have on hand that help make dinner come together faster) and every time someone asks me about it at... The post...

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  • Chicken with Apples and Curry

    Chicken with Apples and Curry

    Presenting the latest recipe in my series on updating Ye Olde Favorites. This one, from my first book Dinner: A Love Story, was one of our earliest family go-tos because... The post Chicken with...

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  • My Book is Here!

    My Book is Here!

    Today is the day! I could not be more excited to announce that The Weekday Vegetarians: Get Simple is officially out in the world. No more of this pre-order stuff, no more... The post My Book is...

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  • 10 Rules I Live By for Happier, Healthier Days*

    10 Rules I Live By for Happier, Healthier Days*

    *EXCEPT FOR WHEN I DON’T Whether you’ve been reading Dinner: A Love Story for a decade or a week, you probably know my number one rule by now: Finish the... The post 10 Rules I Live By for...

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  • BOOK TOUR INFO

    BOOK TOUR INFO

    Greetings eaters, readers, supporters, home cooks, book lovers, members of this esteemed community! My new cookbook, The Weekday Vegetarians: Get Simple is being published in less than two weeks...

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  • Veg-Packed Bean Soup and Zucchini Blossoms

    Veg-Packed Bean Soup and Zucchini Blossoms

    No, I haven’t been eating dinner on the windowsill — the kitchen in our Berkshires rental, while perfectly charming, is decidedly lacking in optimal light for food photography, so I’m using... The...

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  • Craggy Chicken Caesar

    Craggy Chicken Caesar

    Yesterday, I did something I have been meaning to do forever: I pulled up one of the dozens and dozens of recipes in my instagram’s “saved” file to figure out... The post Craggy Chicken Caesar...

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  • Mud Cake 2.0

    Mud Cake 2.0

    I realized something recently. Even though I’ve been writing about Rosa’s Mud Cake for over a decade now, it had been a very long time since I actually baked one in my own... The post Mud Cake 2.0...

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  • A Worthy Summer Project for Kids

    A Worthy Summer Project for Kids

    For those of you lucky enough to have young kids at home this summer, might I suggest picking up a copy of Priya’s Kitchen Adventures? Priya Krishna, the New York Times food journalist... The post...

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  • Turkey Burgers, 2.0

    Turkey Burgers, 2.0

    Back in the olden days, when our girls were little, turkey burgers were one of the few dinners everyone ate without short-order modifications, which meant we had them a lot, usually...

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