Quick Easy Recipes

It was the third Tuesday in September, and I was standing in the fluorescent-lit aisle of the local grocery store, staring at a display of … Read more

The woman at the community garden plot next to mine watched me fumbling with a bent spatula trying to pry apart frozen chicken breasts one … Read more

Hand me that jelly jar, my neighbor said through my open kitchen window last spring. I was smearing peanut butter on bread for the third … Read more

My husband claimed he hated pretzels for fifteen years. Fifteen years of watching him push them aside at parties, of me sneaking extra bites of … Read more

I wasn’t expecting a lesson in snack strategy from a high school sophomore, but there I was, standing in my kitchen at 10 PM on … Read more

I’d stopped by my neighbor’s apartment to borrow a cup of sugar—cliché, I know, but I was in the middle of a baking disaster and … Read more

This was supposed to be soup. I mean, that’s the whole point of instant ramen, right? You boil water, you dump in the noodles, you … Read more

My accountant, Mr. Henderson, is the last person I’d expect to be a culinary genius. Seriously. The man wears the same gray cardigan every Tuesday … Read more

I was staring at the lunchbox with the kind of dread that only a Tuesday morning can bring. You know that feeling when you open … Read more

The other afternoon, I was standing by the deli counter at my local grocery store, trying to decide what to grab for a quick bite. … Read more