The 10 Dishes to Know by Heart This Year

If you can cook these 10 dishes by heart, chances are you’ll have fewer cookie dinners and all-coffee breakfasts. That’s because these are the workhorses of the kitchen: They’re the dishes that aren’t all that complex to make but bend and flip into other dishes. That means they won’t take that much time to prep and they’ll stretch all week, if you know their ropes.

Here’s how to master each of them (without a recipe, because who has a recipe memorized?):