Paige
Oct 23, 2026
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3 min read
Italian week. Eight ingredients or fewer.
Ashley
2 min read
Marinara, ribollita, tagliata. Italian week.
Oct 16, 2026
The oven does what a charcoal grill in northeast Thailand would.
Saffron rice, a Spanish omelet, pork skewers, fideuà.
Oct 9, 2026
Cider-brined pork loin, wild rice soup, chili with skillet cornbread.
Tacos Tuesday, cacciatore Wednesday, and a tortilla soup waiting in the wings.
Oct 2, 2026
Pollo asado Sunday, tortilla soup Tuesday, tacos Monday in between.
Four dinners built around a salsa verde you make once on Monday.
Sep 25, 2026
The braise feeds Sunday, Tuesday, and the freezer.
The last week they are worth it. Most go in the freezer.
Sep 18, 2026
Three jars in the fridge Sunday night carry four dinners.
Pipián carries five dinners this week.
Sep 11, 2026
Brown butter Monday. Buttermilk brine Thursday. The oven earns its keep.
Taste the rice on Tuesday before anything goes on top of it. That is the whole lesson in one spoonful.
Sep 4, 2026
The fennel pasta Tuesday is the first taste of what's coming. From here through October the cooking gets slower, richer, more oven-forward.
They carry all five nights. That has not happened before.
Aug 28, 2026
Slow-roasted tomatoes and corn stock. Forty-five minutes of work, three hours of the oven doing it alone, and then it's September.
Every sauce since May had a one-week clock. This one doesn't. Make it Monday, use it all week, find it again in October.
Aug 21, 2026
Pozole, albóndigas, chiles rellenos. The cooking that had to stand up without anything to hide behind.
Brown, soften, deglaze, cover. Four moves. The same four moves in August with tomatoes and peppers. In January with red wine and carrots. Every braise you will ever make.
Aug 14, 2026
Thirteen weeks in, you've cooked Mexican, Italian, Southeast Asian, and American. This week we go somewhere you haven't been.
Nine weeks of sauces. Every one of them was soft. This week adds crunch, and it keeps for a month in a jar.
Aug 7, 2026
Five dinners, each standing on its own. Wednesday is the week's project and the reason I wrote the week the way I did.
Thirteen weeks. One trip Monday, ten minutes of sauce — and this one you have to feel happen under the whisk.
Jul 31, 2026
1 min read
The cast iron and Dutch oven do most of the work. Every dish lands between 25 and 45 minutes.
