Cheesy Garlic Butter Mushroom Stuffed Chicken
Chicken breasts packed with dry-cooked mushrooms and three cheeses, seared to seal the seam and finished in a garlic butter pan.
- Total time
- 55 min
- Yield
- Serves 4
Recipes — page 3
65 recipes, newest first. Most are easy dinner recipes sized for a weeknight — thirty to sixty minutes, one or two pans, and ingredients from an ordinary grocery store.
The rest is what goes around dinner: soup recipes for a cold evening, salads and side dishes, desserts, and a few sauces worth keeping in the fridge. Every one has been cooked and written here, with the timings and quantities that actually worked.
Recipes by course
Recipes by cooking method
Beef Tacos with Peach Vinegar Slaw
Hard-seared ground beef in warm tortillas, topped with a cabbage and peach slaw dressed at the last possible moment.
- Total time
- 32 min
- Yield
- Makes 8 tacos, serves 4
Autumn Apple Pasta Salad
Crisp diced apple, toasted pecans and cold pasta in a tangy Greek yogurt dressing that keeps the fruit pale and the noodles seasoned all the way through.
- Total time
- 1 hr
- Yield
- Serves 6 as a side
Balsamic Steak Gorgonzola Salad with Grilled Corn
Charred sweet corn, cold peppery leaves and warm sirloin sliced against the grain, with enough Gorgonzola to stand up to the balsamic.
- Total time
- 48 min
- Yield
- Serves 4
Easy Fish Stew Delight
White fish poached gently in a tomato, fennel and garlic broth, with the fish added last and the pot never allowed to boil.
- Total time
- 45 min
- Yield
- Serves 4
Cornmeal Onion Patties
A thick buttermilk cornmeal batter packed with finely chopped onion, shallow-fried crisp at the edges and tender through the middle.
- Total time
- 27 min
- Yield
- Makes 8 patties
Caramel Banana Bread Cookies
Soft, cakey banana cookies with pockets of molten caramel — a chilled dough built to stop banana from spreading it flat.
- Total time
- 1 hr 33 min
- Yield
- Makes 20 cookies
Cranberry Pecan Slaw
Salted, squeezed cabbage in a tangy maple dressing with dried cranberries and toasted pecans — crisp the next day, not soupy.
- Total time
- 50 min
- Yield
- Serves 6
Chocolate Pecan Turtle Clusters
Toasted pecans under a firm-ball caramel and a coat of seeded dark chocolate, cooked to a thermometer so the chew is the same every time.
- Total time
- 2 hr 15 min
- Yield
- Makes about 18 clusters
Cheesy Spinach Dip Chicken Pasta
A cream cheese and spinach sauce held just under a simmer, folded through seared chicken and short pasta in one skillet.
- Total time
- 40 min
- Yield
- Serves 4 generously
Creamy Stuffed Mushroom Dip
Everything that goes inside a stuffed mushroom — garlic, herbs, cream cheese, a buttered crumb top — baked as one scoopable dish.
- Total time
- 1 hr 10 min
- Yield
- Serves 10 as an appetizer
Five-Spice Brussels Sprouts and Sausage Stir-Fry
Halved sprouts seared hard in rendered sausage fat, glazed with soy, honey and five-spice, done in one skillet in under twenty minutes.
- Total time
- 30 min
- Yield
- Serves 4
Black Bean Burger
Beans dried in the oven first, so the patty holds together in a skillet and browns into a real crust instead of collapsing into paste.
- Total time
- 1 hr 20 min
- Yield
- Makes 4 burgers
Amish Harvest Casserole
Sliced potatoes, seasoned ground beef and sweet corn under a sharp cheddar sauce, baked until a knife goes through the middle without resistance.
- Total time
- 1 hr 55 min
- Yield
- Serves 6
Chicken and Stars Soup
The canned soup of everybody's childhood, made with real thigh meat and stelline cooked apart from the broth so it stays clear.
- Total time
- 45 min
- Yield
- Serves 6
Easy Turkey Chili Recipe for Comfort Food Lovers
Ground turkey browned hard, spices bloomed in fat and a slow, lazy simmer — the three things that keep a lean chili from going dry.
- Total time
- 1 hr 20 min
- Yield
- Serves 6
Easter Chocolate Chip Cookies
A brown-sugar chocolate chip dough handled so the candy-shelled eggs keep their pastel shells instead of bleeding into it.
- Total time
- 1 hr 1 min
- Yield
- Makes 24 cookies