Dinner
Weekly Meal Plan: March 4–8
Plus all our best tips for making it happen.
How Freezing Your Butter Makes Every Pastry Better
Step aside, rough puff: our grated butter dough creates insanely flaky layers with none of the folding.
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25 Pasta Recipes for Summer Squash, Winter Squash, and Everything in Between
Between butternut squash forming a silky sauce or chunks of delicata providing a bite to longer noodles, it's a gourd time to be a pasta lover.
Cheesy Hand Pies
The secret to this super-flaky pastry is to grate frozen butter into the flour before incorporating it into the dough. Serve these hand pies warm, either as an appetizer or as dinner with a big green salad on the side.
The Slice-and-Spice Pork Tenderloin You Freeze Before You Prep
For this month's Sunday Stash, we're putting together several meals worth of sliced-and-spiced pork that's ready to be turned into dinner at a moment's notice.
Big-Batch Freezer Pork Tenderloin Strips
Stash bags of these spice-rubbed pork tenderloin strips in your freezer to use to make family-friendly dinners.
Weekly Meal Plan: February 25–March 1
A customizable pot of chicken, rice, and beans will become a family favorite, as will a Vietnamese-inspired pork dish with a sweet name.
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51 Amazing Old-School Pastas
Now all you need is a red checkered tablecloth.
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What to Cook This Weekend: February 22–24
Chicken and bacon choucroute. A feta-topped navy bean and escarole stew. And a stunning citrus tart.
Steak Stroganoff
This is not your grandma’s beef stroganoff. We updated our favorite parts of the classic by swapping in a medium-rare strip steak and adding a squeeze of lemon and sprinkling of dill for a fresh take on dinner.
The Power of the Pu Pu Platter
Sometimes the secret to getting kids excited about dinner is presenting it in a novel way.
Weekly Meal Plan: February 18–22
A big batch of sheet-pan meatballs and a couple of easy, Asian-inspired dinners get you through the week.
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What to Cook This Weekend: February 15–17
A warming chicken congee. Company-worthy lamb shoulder with a bright citrus salad. And hot cocoa cake to cure the winter blues.
Steak Sandwiches with Fennel Slaw
Fresh fennel—tossed in a sprightly cilantro salsa verde—adds crunch against thinly sliced steak and pillowy focaccia.
Pan-Roasted Steak with Crispy Broccoli
It’s fast, it’s easy, it’s totally repurposable. Making extra steak tonight means a stress-free dinner tomorrow, a little strategy we call nextovers.
Lemony Salmon and Spiced Chickpeas
This quick salmon dish, flavored with a garlicky za’atar dressing, proves that meals are better in bowl form. Add radishes, chickpeas, and arugula, then drizzle the dressing over it all.
Roasted Winter Squash with Kale Pipian
If you can find it, try making this green sauce with hoja santa, a robust aromatic Mexican herb—if not, any hardy green will work (we call for kale).
Weeknight Beans on Toast
This recipe makes more saucy, sausage-laced beans than you need, but the leftovers can be repurposed as a quick topper for pasta on another night. If you don’t have spinach, any greens from your fridge will work.
Sunny Side Burger with Salsa Verde
What’s better than a griddled burger with the crispiest exterior? One that comes sandwiched between a vibrant tomatillo salsa and topped with a runny fried egg.
Enchiladas Divorciadas
For the diner who can never decide, this classic dish marries salsa roja and salsa verde over a bed of chicken enchiladas. A crown of queso fresco, crème fraîche, and crisp raw onions bridge the gap.