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Quick Weeknight Dinner Recipes with Eggs
Quick Weeknight Meals Recipe Contest 2009

Eggs are inexpensive, delicious, and quick to prepare. So we weren't surprised that there was quite a clutch of recipes from the Quick Weeknight Meals contest that depended on eggs! Here's a look ba...

Quick Weeknight Dinner Recipes with Polenta
Quick Weeknight Meals Recipe Contest 2009

Two of the winning recipes from September's Quick Weeknight Meals contest included polenta! This creamy, satisfying dinner staple is one of our favorite things. Here are the four polenta recipes fro...

10 Kitchen Staples for Quicker Weeknight Dinners

A quick dinner is often very dependent on how you stock your pantry. What do you stash away in your pantry for quick, easy meals? Here's a peek inside my own pantry and freezer with ten good staples...

Cooking with Leftovers: Making Pot Roast Last All Week

When we shared our favorite pot roast recipe yesterday, we also mentioned how much we love having the leftovers in the fridge to use for meals during the week. Our families inevitably get tired of str...

Quick Meal Technique: How to Stir Fry

Stir frying is really one of the best techniques we home cooks can have up our sleeves. Because they cook so quickly, you can have a stir fry on the table in about the time it takes to chop up the veg...

Save Time Later! Make Ahead Tips for Weeknight Meals

Sometimes the secret to quick but satisfying weeknight meals isn't finding ways to cut corners, but spreading out the work. We try to do a little extra prep work when we have the time so that meals co...

Top Five: Ways to Eat a Fried Egg

A nicely fried egg with crispy edges and a warm, runny yolk is one of life's greatest simple pleasures. We realized long ago that fried eggs are just as delicious after 9am as they are before, and we'...

10 Ways to Eat an Egg Tonight

What are you eating for dinner tonight? How about an egg? Here are 10 of our favorite ways to eat an egg for supper. ...

Quick Meals for Pre-Thanksgiving Eating

Between planning your Thanksgiving meal, grocery shopping, brining, and making dishes ahead of time, actual eating—as in dinner, tonight—gets lost in the shuffle. At least it does for us (we ha...

Good Food With Evan Kleiman: Weeknight Meal Tips

Cooking a weeknight meal at the end of a long day can sometimes feel like a tall order. We're tired and most likely hungry, and picking up the phone for take-out feels like a much better option than ...