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If you're the one who has to answer "what's for dinner?" every single night, I've got you: easy, family-tested recipes a few times a week — a dinner worth making and the sides that ago with it. Like a meal plan from a friend who did the picking for you.

Tested Italian recipes from my father's New York restaurant, plus the ones I learned cooking with him after he retired. Carbonara, Sicilian seafood, Sunday gravy, weeknight pastas. One recipe most weeks, written for home cooks.