What Are the Most Popular Dishes in Your House?

Who cooks most often in your house? What meals do your family or friends like best? Do you cook or bake? If you do, do you follow recipes, or do you make dishes you know by heart?

The New York Times’s Cooking section has published its 20 most popular recipes of the year. Here’s how the collection is introduced:

Sometimes the chaos of life calls for an all-day cooking project — an artfully arranged ombré gratin, a braided challah or a big pot of Sunday sauce — something to busy your hands and settle your spirit. But most days, what you need is an easy meal: a dish that is simply prepared, if not simple in flavor, and that won’t let you down. This year, as inflation pushed food costs to new highs, the ingredients also couldn’t cost a lot. These are just the kind of recipes New York Times Cooking readers clicked on most in 2022. With the exception of a few special project dishes — we’re looking at you, Thanksgiving! — they are all easy, economical and exciting recipes to live your messy, beautiful life by.

Students, read the entire article, scrolling through the various recipes, then tell us:

• Which recipes caught your eye? Why?

• Are there any you’d like to try? If so, did you choose something that seemed easy, or something that might stretch you a bit?

• How experienced are you in the kitchen? If you cook often, what do you like to make? How comfortable are you following recipes and trying new things?

• If you were to make a list of the most popular recipes of 2022 in your house, what might make your list? What dishes do you eat most often? Which are your favorites?

• Whom do you know who is a fantastic cook? What do you think makes that person so skilled?

Students 13 and older in the United States and Britain, and 16 and older elsewhere, are invited to comment. All comments are moderated by the Learning Network staff, but please keep in mind that once your comment is accepted, it will be made public and may appear in print.

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