From New York Times bestselling author Melissa Clark comes a comprehensive and practical cookbook featuring more than 250 all-new recipes. Formulated with a focus on easy cooking, these inherently simple recipes can truly turn anyone into a better and more confident cook.

Clark’s mission is to help everyone, from novices to experienced home cooks, figure out what to make any night of the week—without settling on lackluster fallbacks. Each recipe in this book is meant to be a complete dinner: one fantastic dish that is so satisfying and flavor-forward it can stand alone or sit with just a little something else on the side.

Dinner is all about options: inventive, unfussy food with unexpected flavor—and plenty of make-ahead ideas too. There’s sheet-pan chicken laced with spicy harissa, burgers amped up with chorizo, and curried lentils with poached eggs, to name a few. Here, too, are easy flourishes that make dinner exceptional: try stirring charred lemon into pasta, tossing a Caesar-like dressing on a grain bowl, adding fresh ricotta and demerara sugar to stovetop mac and cheese, or lavishing a dollop of chili paste just about anywhere. Dinner has the range and authority of an instant classic—and glows with the author’s trademark warmth.