Happy Near Year, readers and eaters! Just wanted to let you know that I’m heading up a 2025 Weekday Vegetarian challenge over on Substack this month. The first week’s meal... The post The Weekday Vegetarian Challenge appeared first on Dinner: A Love Story. | Continue reading
Hello faithful blog readers. Can I tell you how much I love that you are still here, almost 15 years after I wrote my first post ever on the Dinner:... The post The Dinner: A Love Story Newsletter appeared first on Dinner: A Love Story. | Continue reading
Maybe it’s because I’ve been wearing my Operation Connect Goggles™ all the time lately, but when I flipped through Luisa Weiss’s new book Classic German Cooking last week, my first impulse was... The post Fall Comfort Food, German Style appeared first on Dinner: A Love Story. | Continue reading
I have such a crush on Carolina Gelen. And I have ever since my daughter forwarded me her hugely popular instagram account during the pandemic a few years ago, writing only... The post Carolina Gelen’s Butter Beans Alla Vodka appeared first on Dinner: A Love Story. | Continue reading
Greetings readers and eaters! I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be hosting another food tour in the spring of 2025 — this time in one of the richest culinary regions... The post Come with me to Mexico appeared first on Dinner: A Love Story. | Continue reading
There’s a section in Get Simple devoted to “store-bought saviors” (i.e. products to have on hand that help make dinner come together faster) and every time someone asks me about it at... The post Creamy Peanutty Cabbage and Tofu appeared first on Dinner: A Love Story. | Continue reading
Presenting the latest recipe in my series on updating Ye Olde Favorites. This one, from my first book Dinner: A Love Story, was one of our earliest family go-tos because... The post Chicken with Apples and Curry appeared first on Dinner: A Love Story. | Continue reading
Today is the day! I could not be more excited to announce that The Weekday Vegetarians: Get Simple is officially out in the world. No more of this pre-order stuff, no more... The post My Book is Here! appeared first on Dinner: A Love Story. | Continue reading
*EXCEPT FOR WHEN I DON’T Whether you’ve been reading Dinner: A Love Story for a decade or a week, you probably know my number one rule by now: Finish the day with good meal, and whenever possible, share it with someone you love. This may or may not beg the question: What about yo … | Continue reading
*EXCEPT FOR WHEN I DON’T Whether you’ve been reading Dinner: A Love Story for a decade or a week, you probably know my number one rule by now: Finish the... The post 10 Rules I Live By for Happier, Healthier Days* appeared first on Dinner: A Love Story. | Continue reading
Greetings eaters, readers, supporters, home cooks, book lovers, members of this esteemed community! My new cookbook, The Weekday Vegetarians: Get Simple is being published in less than two weeks (August 27!), and to celebrate I’ll be hitting the road, visiting a few favorite book … | Continue reading
Greetings eaters, readers, supporters, home cooks, book lovers, members of this esteemed community! My new cookbook, The Weekday Vegetarians: Get Simple is being published in less than two weeks (August 27!), and... The post BOOK TOUR INFO appeared first on Dinner: A Love Story. | Continue reading
No, I haven’t been eating dinner on the windowsill — the kitchen in our Berkshires rental, while perfectly charming, is decidedly lacking in optimal light for food photography, so I’m using... The post Veg-Packed Bean Soup and Zucchini Blossoms appeared first on Dinner: A Love St … | Continue reading
No, I haven’t been eating dinner on the windowsill — the kitchen in our Berkshires rental, while perfectly charming, is decidedly lacking in optimal light for food photography, so I’m using the ole natural light hack, shooting all my finished dishes next to the open window. (Lest … | Continue reading
Yesterday, I did something I have been meaning to do forever: I pulled up one of the dozens and dozens of recipes in my instagram’s “saved” file to figure out what to make for dinner. In spite of my hot-and-cold relationship with the platform, I still check in with it every day, … | Continue reading
Yesterday, I did something I have been meaning to do forever: I pulled up one of the dozens and dozens of recipes in my instagram’s “saved” file to figure out... The post Craggy Chicken Caesar appeared first on Dinner: A Love Story. | Continue reading
I realized something recently. Even though I’ve been writing about Rosa’s Mud Cake for over a decade now, it had been a very long time since I actually baked one in my own kitchen. For the longest time the cake was our go-to for many special occasions, specifically my chocolate-l … | Continue reading
I realized something recently. Even though I’ve been writing about Rosa’s Mud Cake for over a decade now, it had been a very long time since I actually baked one in my own... The post Mud Cake 2.0 appeared first on Dinner: A Love Story. | Continue reading
For those of you lucky enough to have young kids at home this summer, might I suggest picking up a copy of Priya’s Kitchen Adventures? Priya Krishna, the New York Times food journalist (famous in my house for her Matar Paneer and pantry-superstar Khichdi) teaches kids how to cook … | Continue reading
For those of you lucky enough to have young kids at home this summer, might I suggest picking up a copy of Priya’s Kitchen Adventures? Priya Krishna, the New York Times food journalist... The post A Worthy Summer Project for Kids appeared first on Dinner: A Love Story. | Continue reading
Back in the olden days, when our girls were little, turkey burgers were one of the few dinners everyone ate without short-order modifications, which meant we had them a lot, usually California-style, craggy-edged with white onions, ketchup, mustard, and pickles, maybe some roast … | Continue reading
Back in the olden days, when our girls were little, turkey burgers were one of the few dinners everyone ate without short-order modifications, which meant we had them a lot, usually California-style,... The post Turkey Burgers, 2.0 appeared first on Dinner: A Love Story. | Continue reading
Since discovering the oven-roasted shawarma recipe (
Since discovering the oven-roasted shawarma recipe (
There’s a new cookbook out today called Hot Sheet, by Olga Massov and Sanaë Lemoine, which is an ode in recipe form to all the ways the humble sheet pan makes a home cook’s life easier, from starters and snacks, through dinnertime and dessert. Good lord, everything looks so delic … | Continue reading
There’s a new cookbook out today called Hot Sheet, by Olga Massov and Sanaë Lemoine, which is an ode in recipe form to all the ways the humble sheet pan makes... The post The Sheet Pan, A Superhero Story appeared first on Dinner: A Love Story. | Continue reading
Friends! News! I’d like to introduce you to my next book, The Weekday Vegetarians: Get Simple, which will be published in August, and is available for pre-order as of TODAY. How badly do you want to eat the cover? Here is a brief list of the kind of people who might enjoy Get Sim … | Continue reading
Friends! News! I’d like to introduce you to my next book, The Weekday Vegetarians: Get Simple, which will be published in August, and is available for pre-order as of TODAY.... The post The Weekday Vegetarians: Get Simple appeared first on Dinner: A Love Story. | Continue reading
In the elevator this morning, I ran into my neighbor, a mom of two young kids, who immediately said “I’m so glad the city canceled school, it’s miserable out there!” I nodded in agreement, even though I had zero idea that school had even been canceled. It’s been so long since I’v … | Continue reading
I’ve been a Weekday Vegetarian for over five years and though now it feels easy, a lot of that is because I’m not cooking for my college-age children on a daily basis anymore. When I was just getting started, with younger kids who weren’t always, shall we say, receptive to the pl … | Continue reading
Thirteen years ago, here on The Blog, Andy wrote about “fish presents” after discovering that the recipe was a sneaky way to market the meal to young seafood skeptics. This is how he described the dinner back in 2010, when our daughters were 6 and 8: Our latest venture in rebrand … | Continue reading
Greetings to my dear eaters and readers. I hope you all had joyful and meaningful holidays however you celebrate. I write this first newsletter of 2024 with a deeply heavy heart — my father, Ivan Rosenstrach, died on December 25, 2023. His life was rich with family and community … | Continue reading
Greetings eaters and readers! I went through my Google doc notes from last Christmas (in our old house 😭😭), and forgot how organized I was — links or print-outs for every recipe, a shopping list, a game plan, and even notes written to my 2023 self with ideas for w … | Continue reading
It’s always a good day when I get to tell you about a new book from Yossy Arefi, member of an elite crew of recipe writers who meet me where I am, namely: in no-fuss, no-brainer baked good land. Her latest book, Snacking Bakes, speaks my love language, offering up baked treats (b … | Continue reading
Please answer a question for me: Is honeynut squash as common as butternut squash these days? I ask because I only ever used to score the smaller, sweeter squash at the farmer’s market during a very specific window of weeks, but now I see them spilling forth out of boxes and crat … | Continue reading
Don’t tell Great Grandma Turano, whose namesake meatballs have been the default in our house for decades, but we’ve been silently betraying her for the last year and half. It all started when I read about Anna Francese Gass and hergrandmother’s meatballs, featured in Gass’s 2019 … | Continue reading
September, as always, was a busy month, compounded — in a good, happy, lucky way — by our move to Manhattan. Which is probably why this past Sunday, our first completely free day in what felt like weeks, Andy turned to me and said “Why do I feel like I still don’t know my own kit … | Continue reading
Anyone who has spent a minute reading Dinner: A Love Story knows about my affection for Leah Koenig’s cookbooks, which I turn to all year long, but especially this time of year as we head into the Jewish holidays. A leading authority on Jewish food, Koenig is a genius at interpre … | Continue reading
Moving was stressful — lists upon lists upon lists upon lists — but I’ll tell you one part of the whole thing that was downright therapeutic: Cooking down the fridge. It’s that magical combination of creativity, and frugality that join forces to be something that is almost a comp … | Continue reading
The other week, on my newsletter, I wrote about Milestone Dinners through the years, and asked readers to suggest menus for our last family dinner in the house before we move. I loved the answers, not only because they were legit delicious recipes, but because they were sentiment … | Continue reading
I confess this was actually last week in grilled chicken, and also that it will most likely be next week in grilled chicken and possibly the week after that, too, because the dinner is that good — so fresh and flavorful and just plain beautiful — and I should probably try to cont … | Continue reading
When we were in Maine a few weeks ago, we road-tripped to Damariscotta, a picture-perfect town on the Damariscotta River famous for its pristine, hearty oysters. It’s one of those small towns that seemed to have every business necessary to live the good life as a food lover — a b … | Continue reading
It’s not summer til we eat…How would you finish that sentence? The list is long for us, but we managed to check off three major boxes this past week on our Maine vacation — First there was warm Triple Berry Pie with ice cream, which was store-bought, but really reminded me of the … | Continue reading
Subscribe now As you likely know by now, my most favorite kind of summer cooking is a simply grilled something surrounded by a bounty of farm-fresh, creative salads. (It always reminds me of my old magazine boss, Carrie, whose fashion philosophy was “Gap clothes, Prada accessorie … | Continue reading
Last month, I was thrilled to speak with my old friend Elizabeth Mayhew, aka The Dutchy, for a Q&A assignment. We worked together at Real Simple and she is the one behind the banana bread that gets more ink on Dinner: A Love Story than either of my children do. Well, Elizabeth is … | Continue reading
Well, I finally did what I’ve been threatening to do since February’s London visit: I recreated the fish we ate at Noble Rot, that cozy black-wood-paneled restaurant on charming Lambs Conduit street in Bloomsbury that I still haven’t shut up about. We ate some pretty amazing food … | Continue reading
“In the late summer of 2019, I hit a wall. I felt cruddy after years of eating everything I wanted, all in the name of professional research.” So beings Andrea Nguyen’s wonderful new cookbook Ever-Green Vietnamese, where she reimagines her traditional Vietnamese repertoire, seeki … | Continue reading
Greetings eaters and readers! I’m thrilled to present Amanda Hesser’s Easter Menu as the next chapter in my Dinner Party Game Plan series. Here, Amanda, co-founder of Food52 and one of my personal food writing heroes, offers two options, both of which won me over for their ease a … | Continue reading