Sunday dinner
Dry-Brined High-Heat Roast Chicken
Skin so crisp you can hear it from the next room, meat that stays juicy, and pan juices worth arm-wrestling over. Salt it the night before, crank the oven, and carve fast. The crispy bits vanish the second you turn your back.
Start here
the ones I’d teach you first
On the calendar
Thanksgiving, the whole table
The whole table, bird to pie. 75 recipes, one long, loud, happy day, and zero store-bought rolls. (Tina, we know.)
Plan the tableThe classics
the ones that started the arguments
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Glazed Meatloaf with a Panade
1 hr 50 min
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Baked Mac and Cheese with a Crisp Crumb Top
1 hr 5 min
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Classic Pot Roast with Vegetables
3 hr 45 min
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Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
2 hr 32 min
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Brown Butter Banana Bread
2 hr 20 min
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Beef and Bean Chili con Carne
2 hr 25 min
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Flaky Buttermilk Biscuits
55 min
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Double-Crust Apple Pie
4 hr 30 min
By the night you’re having
Occasions
Ways to cook
Flavors
A kitchen with too many people in it.
Somebody stirring something that doesn’t need stirring, somebody “testing” everything, a dog who knows exactly where to stand. That’s the kitchen these recipes come from. Every one here is a way of setting that table again.
Pull up a chair.
About Simmer DownThe Sunday letter
One recipe a week. One story. No coupons.
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