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Featured recipes will often only call for one pot or pan, and can be made in 45 minutes or less.

The recipes will be adaptable to a variety of tastes, dietary restrictions and preferences.

Cooking tips, how-tos and technique deep dives to help you become a more confident cook.

Shopping tips, ingredient substitutions and cooking shortcuts.

Ideas for how to repurpose any leftovers.

I’m Daniela, a Food staff writer who has been cooking at home since I could push a chair up to the counter. I studied food history in college, went to culinary school and spent the first 10 years of my career working as a pastry chef. I love baking, but these days I spend a lot more time cooking. And much of that time is spent trying to make dinner feel more like fun than a chore. This newsletter will feature my favorite weeknight recipes — and they might just become your new favorites, too.

I hope these recipes become the email you forward to your significant other or roommate, encouraging them to pick up the slack and make dinner for a change, the spark of inspiration you need to propel you to preheat the oven, to make something fresh, something good, something new to you.

(Photos by Rey Lopez, Food Styling by Lisa Cherkasky, Portrait by Cassidy Araiza, all for The Washington Post)