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Recipes for two, the old-fashioned dishes people still ask for, and dinners that fit a weeknight.
Most recipes are written for a family of five. The table has two chairs at it now, and the leftovers are not a bonus.
This section is about cooking for the life you have: casseroles and soups scaled for two, slow-cooker suppers that forgive a late afternoon, thirty-minute dinners, and the dishes from the fifties and sixties that still earn their place. Every recipe lists what you need in one short line, then the steps in plain order, with the swap that works when the pantry is short.
We write for a cook who has made ten thousand dinners and would like the next one to be easy. If a shortcut is worth taking we say so. If a dish only works the long way, we say that too.
- Recipes for two
- Comfort food
- Slow cooker
- Retro recipes
- Easy dinners
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