Aldi Meal Plan: A Week of Dinners From One Aldi Run
An Aldi meal plan works best when it’s built around the store you’re actually walking into. Aldi runs smaller stores than most supermarkets, so a plan made from a random stack of recipes tends to come apart somewhere around the second aisle. A plan built from a short list of ingredients that each show up […]
Chicken Dinner Ideas for Every Night You Bought Chicken Again
If chicken ended up in the cart again this week, that’s a reasonable choice. Most people in the house will eat it, and it comes in enough shapes to cover a lot of nights, even if it keeps getting cooked the same two or three ways. So these chicken dinner ideas start from what you […]
Christmas Dinner Ideas Without a Three-Day Cook
These Christmas dinner ideas are four complete menus, starting with one that’s barely cooking at all and ending with one you make entirely the day before. Each has a main, a few sides and a dessert, along with oven temperatures, rough timings and the internal temperature the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) gives […]
Casserole Recipes That Feed the Table Twice
Most casserole recipes are written as if you’ll eat the whole pan the night you bake it. A lot of people make a casserole for the opposite reason: you cook once, and the next night dinner is a reheat instead of a whole new cook. So the ten below were picked for how well they […]
Friendsgiving Ideas When Everyone Brings a Dish
A potluck Friendsgiving is a great idea right up until five people show up with dessert and nobody brings bread. Most of what makes one come together is a bit of planning in the group chat a week or two out. These Friendsgiving ideas cover both sides of the front door: what the host usually […]
Leftover Turkey Recipes That Turn One Bird Into Three Dinners
Most households finish Thanksgiving with more turkey than anyone wants to eat cold, and three dinners is a sensible amount to aim for. On Friday it goes into something quick, like turkey tacos or a hot turkey sandwich. On Saturday the carcass becomes stock, and the stock becomes a pot of turkey and wild rice […]
How Much Turkey Per Person (and Everything Else on the List)
Plan on one pound of turkey per person. That’s the USDA’s figure for a whole bird, fresh or frozen, weighed with the bones in, and it’s the quickest reliable answer to how much turkey per person you need. Whole Foods Market’s holiday guide is a little more generous: it suggests 1.25 pounds per person, bone-in, […]
Fall Soup Recipes for a Week That Runs on One Big Pot
A big pot of soup made on a Sunday in October can cover dinner that night, a couple more dinners after it, and a few lunches in between. Whether it actually does depends a lot on which soup you picked. Some fall soup recipes taste better on Wednesday than they did on Sunday, because the […]
Thanksgiving Side Dishes That Share the Oven With the Turkey
A 14-pound turkey spends somewhere around three to four hours in a 325°F oven, and for most of that time there’s room for one more dish on the lower rack at best. That’s the real limit on Thanksgiving side dishes in a house with a single oven. Most sides are simple enough on their own, […]
The Thanksgiving Shopping List, Built From the Menu
A Thanksgiving shopping list is much easier to get right when you write it from the menu instead of from memory. Memory is good at the turkey and the pie, and much less reliable about the celery for the stuffing, the cream for the potatoes and the foil you’ll need to cover the bird while […]