I made this baked ziti for a random Tuesday dinner and my husband asked if we were celebrating something. We weren’t. It was just pasta night. That’s the thing about baked ziti with ground beef. It looks like a whole event on the table, layers of cheese, sauce bubbling at the edges, but it comes … Read more
easy vegetable soup recipe: There’s a pot on my stove right now that smells like every carrot, onion, and herb I own decided to throw a party together. And honestly, that’s the whole point of this recipe. I started making this vegetable soup on nights when the fridge looked like a graveyard of half-used produce. … Read more
Mexican Chicken Tinga Taco Recipe: I wasn’t planning on falling in love with a shredded chicken taco, but here we are. Chicken tinga snuck up on me during a trip through Puebla, Mexico, where a woman running a tiny street stall handed me a taco that completely rearranged my understanding of what smoky, tangy, saucy … Read more
The first time I dunked a birria taco into that deep red broth, I knew regular tacos were never going to cut it again. There’s just something about a crispy, cheese-crusted tortilla soaking up hours of slow-cooked, chili-kissed beef that makes every other taco feel a little basic. Birria tacos started as a Jalisco tradition … Read more
My oven does more heavy lifting in this house than almost anything else, and these sheet pan chicken kebabs are the reason why. No skewers to soak. No grill to fire up. No standing outside flipping meat while mosquitoes treat your ankles like an all you can eat buffet. Just one pan, one oven, and … Read more
I made this taco casserole on a random Tuesday because I had ground beef that needed using up. Silas walked in from work, took one bite, and asked why I’d never made it before. That’s the story of half the recipes on this blog, honestly. This dish takes everything you love about tacos and turns … Read more
My grandmother used to say a good matzo ball soup could fix almost anything. A cold, a bad day, even a broken heart got a little better after a bowl of hers. I didn’t believe her until I made this soup myself for the first time, on a rainy Tuesday when I had zero energy … Read more
7 Keto Dinners: I used to think keto meant sad lettuce wraps and cheese for every meal. Then Silas and I actually committed to a full week of it, and I realized how wrong I was. We were three days into a trip prep when we decided to clean up our eating before flying out, … Read more
I’ll be honest with you. The first time Silas suggested I put cottage cheese in bread, I made a face. A whole face. Like he’d asked me to put ranch dressing in my coffee. But I made it anyway, because that’s what four years of marriage and a shared love of weird kitchen experiments will … Read more
My freezer used to be a graveyard of good intentions. Chicken breasts I meant to cook. Ground beef I forgot about. A bag of carrots that turned into science experiments. Then I started using my slow cooker like it owed me money, and everything changed. This slow cooker beef stew is the recipe that fixed … Read more