Recipes by Emma and Madison
Second Helpings
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Sunday chili that freezes right
Built specifically to survive the freezer — no dairy, no pasta, nothing that turns to mush at week three.
Emma · 1 hour 30 minutes · Serves 8, or 4 with leftovers frozen - Dinner
Sheet pan sausage and cabbage
The dinner I make when it's dark at four-thirty and I have no plan. Cabbage goes sweet and lacy at the edges; the sausage fat does all the seasoning.
Madison · 40 minutes · Serves 2 generously, 3 politely - Dinner
White beans with too much garlic
A pot of beans that becomes lunch for three days. The garlic amount is not a typo and I will not be revising it.
Madison · 2 hours, mostly unattended · Serves 4 to 6 - Trail food
Trail oat bars that don't crumble
Four hours in a warm pack, still one piece. The ratio of syrup to nut butter is the whole engineering problem and this is the answer.
Emma · 45 minutes plus chilling · Serves 12 bars - Basics
The green sauce that fixes leftovers
Day-four rice and a plain chicken thigh become dinner. I make it every Sunday and it's gone by Thursday.
Emma · 10 minutes · Serves About 1 1/2 cups - Basics
The only vinaigrette I make anymore
I stopped buying dressing in 2023. This takes ninety seconds in the jar you'll store it in.
Madison · 5 minutes · Serves About 3/4 cup