Tag: easy dinner recipes
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One pot spaghetti is spaghetti with meat sauce without the colander, the second pot, or the pile of dishes. The beef browns, the sauce builds, and the dry noodles cook right in the tomato broth, soaking up flavor as they soften. About 30 minutes later you have a thick, saucy pot of pasta that tastes…
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Cajun shrimp pasta is the dinner for nights when you want something that feels a little bold and a lot indulgent, but you do not want to spend an hour on it. Plump shrimp are rubbed with smoky Cajun spices and seared in a hot skillet, then returned to a garlicky cream sauce with sweet…
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Chicken fettuccine alfredo is the dish that looks like it needs a reservation and takes 35 minutes at home. Ribbons of fettuccine are tossed in a glossy garlic and Parmesan cream sauce, then topped with juicy, golden-seared chicken. There is no jarred sauce and no flour-thickened paste, just cream, butter, garlic, and real cheese. The…
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Cheeseburger casserole takes everything you order on a cheeseburger and bakes it in one dish: savory beef, tangy ketchup and mustard, chopped pickles, melted cheddar, and the bun. The filling is a thick, saucy ground beef mixture with cheese stirred through it. The bun becomes a golden biscuit topping brushed with butter and scattered with…
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Hamburger potato casserole is what you make when scalloped potatoes need to be dinner. Thin slices of potato bake in a cheddar cream sauce, seasoned beef sits between the layers, and the top turns into a bubbling, golden cheese crust. One dish, one oven, eight generous servings. I make this casserole on nights when I…
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Every family has a soup that means home. In my house, it is this one. My mother made this beef vegetable soup recipe every Sunday in winter, and the whole house smelled like it by noon. Tender chunks of beef, potatoes that soaked up the broth, carrots gone sweet from the long simmer. We ate…
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I grew up thinking pinto beans were only for refried beans and chili. Then I spent a summer in Texas with my aunt, and her pinto bean soup recipe changed my mind completely. Smoky, hearty, with big soft beans in a broth so flavorful I mopped the bowl clean with cornbread. I asked her for…
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The first time I made this white bean soup recipe, it was an accident. I had planned a completely different dinner, but the chicken I was going to use smelled off when I opened the package. It was 5:30 and my kids were already asking what was for dinner. All I had was a pantry…
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A pot of cabbage soup simmering on the stove fills the kitchen with the smell of sweet onion, garlic, and tomatoes warming into a golden, savory broth. Then my neighbor showed up with a bowl when I had a bad cold, and I had to quietly eat my words. It was bright and savory, full…
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This hamburger soup recipe comes from my grandmother’s kitchen, though she never called it anything fancy. It was her clean-out-the-fridge soup. Ground beef, potatoes, whatever vegetables were hanging around, all simmered in a rich tomato broth. My husband calls it cowboy soup, and honestly that fits. It is hearty, humble, and the kind of meal…