Meet Dina

Hey! I’m Dina, and I’m so glad you’re here.

This is where I share the kind of recipes that don’t stress you out. Weeknight dinners that come together in under an hour. Slow-cooker meals for busy days. Comfort food that actually tastes like comfort food. I cook for real life, which means I’m working with grocery store ingredients, a regular oven that definitely has hot spots, and approximately 45 minutes between getting home and needing dinner on the table.

You’ll find a lot of crowd-pleasers here. Pot roast. Lasagna. Really good chocolate cake. I’m not doing molecular gastronomy or deconstructed anything. Just food that makes people happy.

Fair warning: I’m terrible at keeping fresh herbs alive (they die within a week, every single time), and I have an entire drawer devoted to rubber spatulas that I definitely don’t need. I also taste everything constantly while I cook, which means I’m usually not even hungry by dinnertime.

But if you want recipes that work, that don’t require fancy equipment, and that taste like someone who actually cares made them? Stay a while. Pull up a chair.