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quick dinners

  • The Frozen Gnocchi Revelation

    The Frozen Gnocchi Revelation

    Do you ever know something without really knowing something? Like the fact that you can get your parking validated at Nordstrom’s at The Grove in L.A. Until you need your parking validated, you don’t really let that thought surface. Well last night I was in my kitchen at 7:30 P.M., feeling peckish, and without a…

  • Quick Meatballs Over Slow-Cooked Polenta

    Quick Meatballs Over Slow-Cooked Polenta

    Meatballs are not a go-to dinner for me. Sometimes I crave them, but then I think about all of the work: the tearing of the bread (yes, good meatballs have bread soaked in milk), the soaking of the bread in milk (I just said that), the grating of the Parmesan, and — worst of all…

  • Sausages Braised in Tomato Sauce Over Polenta

    Sausages Braised in Tomato Sauce Over Polenta

    It’s hard for me to think of dinners that aren’t pasta. When I have sausages in the refrigerator, for example, I think of all of the different pastas I can make with them: rigatoni with sausage and broccolini, ziti with sausage, onion, and fennel. I think I took it too seriously when Sophia Loren said:…

  • One-Pan Salmon with Sugar Snap Peas and a Cherry Tomato Sauce

    One-Pan Salmon with Sugar Snap Peas and a Cherry Tomato Sauce

    When we think about one-pan cooking, we usually think about a dish where all of the components cook together in one pan at the same time. But there’s another kind of one-pan cooking! (Sorry for the exclamation mark, I was excited.) It’s the kind where you cook multiple components in the same pan one after…