Weeknight Favorite Archives

miso chicken and rice

How do you cook when your kitchen isn’t available for kitchen-ing? On a Sunday last April, I awoke at the crack of dawn jet-lagged from an (excellent) trip to Amsterdam* to an email from my apartment building that ConEd had found a gas l…

simple crispy pan pizza

If you want a homemade pizza that requires no kneading, no special flour, or long wait time (because who among has ever said “what I really crave is pizza that will be ready 1 to 3 days from now”), you should really, really be maki…

baked potatoes with crispy broccoli and bacon

Unless you’re living your life better than me (probably!), I bet it’s probably been way too long since you last had a baked potato for dinner — or, as they’re more charmingly called across the pond, “jacket potato…

grilled chicken salad with cilantro-lime dressing

What did we get up to while our kids’ time away overlapped for two weeks this summer? Did we go on vacation? Did we party every night? The truth is honestly embarrassing, so middle-aged coded, Deb of the early Smitten Kitchen years would…

one-pan ditalini and peas

Until recently, I was fairly ambivalent about one-pan pasta recipes. I appreciate them in a pinch [here’s a longtime favorite; and this is my total comfort food], but I sometimes find that when the pasta is cooked in a sauce the whole ti…

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miso chicken and rice

simple crispy pan pizza

baked potatoes with crispy broccoli and bacon

grilled chicken salad with cilantro-lime dressing

one-pan ditalini and peas