Grandma’s Beef and Potato Bake
Six ingredients, one pan, and about 90 minutes in the oven — most of which you spend doing something else. Ground beef and onion browned and seasoned, layered with thinly sliced potatoes and a cream of mushroom sauce, topped with shredded cheddar and baked until the cheese is golden and…
Creamy Cajun Shrimp Pasta
Thirty minutes. One skillet. Dinner that looks like you ordered it from somewhere with cloth napkins. Creamy Cajun shrimp pasta is the recipe I lean on when it's a Wednesday, everyone's hungry, and I want something that doesn't taste like "quick weeknight meal." Seared spiced shrimp, a silky cream sauce…
Creamy Seafood Casserole
Lump crabmeat and shrimp in an Old Bay cream sauce, baked under cheddar and breadcrumbs until the top is golden and the edges are bubbling. This is a casserole that works for a weeknight dinner and doubles as the kind of thing you bring to a holiday table without apologizing…
Classic French Toast with Bacon, Sausage & Scrambled Eggs
This is the breakfast plate I make on weekend mornings when everyone's home and there's no rush. Thick bread soaked in a cinnamon-vanilla custard and cooked until the outside is properly golden — not pale and flabby, but actually golden — with crispy bacon, browned sausages, and soft scrambled eggs…
Slow Cooker Beef Enchilada Casserole
Fifteen minutes of actual work. Everything else happens in the slow cooker while you're doing something else. Ground beef seasoned with taco spices, layered with tortilla strips, black beans, corn, enchilada sauce, salsa, and two kinds of cheese — then left on low for four to six hours until it's…
Rhubarb Cream Cheese Hand Pies
Most hand pie recipes have one filling. This one has two — a jammy cooked rhubarb and a lemony cream cheese — layered together inside a flaky buttermilk crust. The rhubarb is sharp and bright; the cream cheese is cool and rich; the pastry holds it all in a golden,…
Rhubarb Cream Cheese Swirl Bread
Rhubarb has about six weeks of peak season, and every year I scramble to use it before it's gone. This bread is where most of mine goes. It's a simple vanilla quick bread with a cup of chopped rhubarb folded into the batter and a layer of sweetened cream cheese…
Mediterranean Ground Chicken Bowl with Creamy Hot Honey Feta Sauce
The sauce is the reason to make this. Feta blended with Greek yogurt, honey, lemon, chilli flakes, and a little olive oil until it's smooth and pourable — it lands somewhere between a vinaigrette and a dip, and it makes everything it touches taste better. Spoon it over the spiced…
