Weeknight Cooking

50+ Recipes That Start With a Can of Chickpeas

Some of the simplest, most satisfying dinners start with a can of chickpeas—and we have the recipes to prove it. From creamy hummus and crispy falafel to hearty soups, stews, and pasta dishes, these chickpea recipes highlight just how versatile garbanz…

22 Weeknight Meals that Don’t Rely on Poultry or Eggs

If you’ve noticed rising egg and chicken prices (even Waffle House is tacking on 50-cent surcharges because of shortages) or read one too many stories on bird flu, you might find yourself looking for egg and poultry alternatives these days.
Or maybe y…

5 Weeknight Dinners That Happen to Be Vegan

Let’s get this out of the way: I’m not vegan. I never have been, and I probably never will be. But as I started sifting through recipes to make this week, I noticed quite a few dairy- and meat-free options in the mix. I’m not entirely sure what’s gotten into me (I rarely eat a meal that doesn’t include seafood, dairy, or eggs), but I decided to lean into it and pick five all-vegan recipes for this round of weeknight dinners. Here’s what I’ll be making.

1. Braised Shiitake Mushrooms

Last week, I wrote about Lucas Sin’s technique for cooking mushrooms by boiling them in water. It goes against every rule I thought I knew about working with mushrooms, and I’m completely intrigued.

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5 Weeknight Recipes for the Ambitious Cook

Bad news: It’s getting dark super early again. There’s something about looking out the window after a long work day and seeing your vitamin-D deficient reflection (instead of the glorious sun) that just makes going home feel like a bummer. That’s when …

5 Weeknight Dinners to Cook From Memory

Recently I read a story about how to improve one of the things I can already feel slipping away: my “working” memory. This is the “get me oat milk when you go to the store” kind of memory that fails me as soon as I walk through the supermarket’s slidin…

5 Weeknight Dinners That Keep Cooking Fun

I’m looking for one thing when making a weeknight dinner: joy. For breakfast and lunch, I’m content with consuming an amalgamation of soulless fodder—premade salads, frozen food, anything piled into a cardboard bowl—so long as I regain some humanity in…

5 Weeknight Dinners to Make This Week, Family Edition

The Wall Street Journal just published a riff on the quiet quitting trend titled “Try Hard, but Not That Hard. 85% is the Magic Number for Productivity.” This is valuable advice (that I will probably never follow). But it leads me to wonder: If you giv…