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In Quick & Dirty, Salon Food s Mary Elizabeth Williams serves up simplified recipes and shortcuts for exhausted cooks just like you because quick and dirty should still be delicious.
Lately, I feel about my kitchen the way I feel about New York it s 51% great and 49% godawful. As long as I hang on to that slender margin the one that offers the hope that something magic can happen at any moment I can make it through the tough days. Keeping that number in proportion, though, takes daily effort.
Whether you re a practiced home cook or a known personality to every delivery person in your zip code, the pandemic has forced all of us to reconsider how we shop for, prepare, eat and clean up after our meals. It s a lot and some days I find myself pretty hostile about the whole thing. On those days, I d prefer to pour myself a glass of pinot, eat a sleeve of Ritz crackers and call it dinner. But most of the time, I muster whatever remaining shred of daily enthusi