If the dinner problem — defined, broadly, as “what should I make for dinner?” — is difficult to solve, picture solving it every night for the choosiest audience imaginable. This audience is not composed of food critics, or exacting chefs. It’s children. Nothing in the kitchen is more reliably frustrating than trying to feed a picky one. (I say all of this with love.)

That’s why my NYT Cooking colleague Margaux Laskey has created a collection of kid-friendly recipes to please whole families — children and adults, eating the same meal in harmony.

Four recipes from that list are below — I was just going to feature one, but they looked so good I picked a whole bunch — along with a personal pick that my own children scarf down routinely.

This simple one-pot broccoli rice is a cozy weeknight

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