The Most Adaptable Skillet Chicken

Hi, and welcome to Five Weeknight Dishes. Emily is off so I’m stepping in for her today. The New York Times announced this week that we won’t be returning to our Times Square offices any sooner than July 6, 2021. I am happy that our company is prioritizing our safety, but also sad because I…

A Childhood Favorite Reimagined

Warm and flaky sausage rolls, stuffed with savory meat and striped with ketchup, may not have been school cafeteria fare in Brooklyn while I was growing up. But they were in Australia for Paul Allam, where, as a kid, he used to long for one to appear at his primary school lunch table, tucked into…

Help! My Kids Don’t Want to Go Outside

Last March, when Odyscea Kian, an at-home mother in Gainesville, Fla., began warning her eight-year-old son, Roman, about a contagious and potentially deadly new virus, he seemed OK — at first. The family, she told him, will not be traveling to his grandfather’s house in Miami to celebrate Iranian New Year like they usually do.…