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6 recipes, each one cooked enough times that the quantities can be trusted.

• Batch cooking

  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