A few years ago, when I commuted back and forth between Brooklyn and Manhattan for work, I’d ride the train home with my friend Kathleen sometimes. It was during one of these subway rides that I started asking what she and her husband had been eating for dinner. I was looking for ideas because Dan and I were in a rut, eating the same meals over and over each week.
Fast forward, and now, I ask everyone I know, What have you been having for dinner lately? The point isn’t so much to get new recipes, although that does happen and it’s always nice, but to spark an idea of something new to try. If a friend tells me she eats one type of cuisine most nights and we never think to have it, now it’s on my radar. Maybe another friend buys an assortment of prepared salads from the bodega every Monday to use throughout the week, and that never even crossed my mind to try.
Details like these have sparked ideas and encourage us to try something different for a change. We’ve found some of our favorite dishes and started new habits from the conversations that have come out of this question. And because of that, it seemed like a fun idea for a new series.
We already have a handful of interviews in the works, and I’m excited to share them with you over the coming weeks. We’ll be posting our first Week of Dinners feature later today, so please stay tuned.
I hope you like this new series and maybe you’ll find something new to try in your own kitchen.
P.S. Know of someone we should feature (you?), please let me know!
(Photo by Alexa Arnold.)
Sometimes my sister and I will check in with our aunts with a group text & ask “what’s for dinner?” We did this before corona lockdown & it’s still a great way to feel connected & be inspired to get out of a dinner rut 💗
Yes! It really is such a great way to get spark new ideas! <3