Our All-Time Favorite Recipes (Hand-Picked For You!)
We hand-picked recipes we think you will enjoy making and eating! These are our all-time favorite recipes. And our readers' favorite recipes. The recipes include the best photos! I'm going back and rephotographing our favorites, too. Click the button for the type of recipe you want to cook or bake. Find a recipe to make and enjoy!
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All-time Favorite Recipes:
Main Dishes:
Gallery of Dinner Recipes
Main Dishes
Our family favorite dinner recipes are hand-picked for you to make (cook or bake) and enjoy!
Easy Lasagna: This is a simplified version of our family's classic lasagna recipe. It's quicker and easier to make, perfect for a weeknight dinner or a special occasion. Enjoy this delicious, meaty, cheesy, comforting meal!
Are you ready to make grilled steak? You will love this Carne Asada Steak! It's marinated in a green (Verde) marinade, then grilled and sliced thinly. This is also known as a Santa Maria-style steak. See how to make Carne Asada Verde, grilled corn, and the sides that pair perfectly with your steaks. This is a grilled dinner that is a family favorite and a reader favorite!
We love chicken tortilla soup! We have been perfecting our recipe for it for years! Grab this recipe and a few time-saving hacks that will give you another dinner (without the fuss!).
Easy Gluten-Free No-Boil Lasagna delivers! Start with a big jar of tomato sauce infused with lean ground beef, aromatic garlic cloves, vibrant Italian peppers, and classic Italian seasonings. Get tips, substitutions, and the recipe. Enjoy a delicious lasagna dinner! If you aren't gluten-free, you can use regular no-boil lasagna noodles for the recipe!
Who loves a sheet pan dinner? I do! And I think you will love this one. Easy, delicious, Encrusted Parmesan chicken breasts, roasted green beans, and roasted potatoes made on a sheet pan...
Baked Feta Pasta Recipe is everything you want it to be. Delicious, cheesy, flavorful, includes pasta noodles, fresh cherry tomatoes, basil, extra virgin olive oil, and crushed garlic. This recipe is easy to make for dinner, brunch, or lunch. With a few simple ingredients, you can make this pasta dinner in under one hour.
This is an easy chicken Parmesan dinner! Make the chicken parm on a sheet pan and cook pasta noodles to serve with it to complete the dinner.
Are you looking for a delicious, flavorful, easy-to-make chicken taco recipe? Look no further! Get ready to cook chicken tacos in the slow cooker! Enjoy tender, flavorful chicken in a few hours. This is perfect for a weeknight dinner, Taco Tuesday, or a taco party!
What makes this so easy? It is a set-and-forget recipe for chicken taco meat. Then prep and top with your favorite garnishes! Of course, we included our favorite taco toppings to help you make it extra delicious! Assemble the chicken in soft or hard taco shells. Additionally, you can use the chicken for other dishes too; burritos, toastadas, quesadillas...
This can be made for a dinner or brunch! It is really tasty, and if you love Mexican pizza, you need to try it!
More of the Best Dinner Recipes
Sides and Salads:
Gallery of Side Dishes and Salads
Sides and Salads
This is a gallery of our favorite recipes for Side Dishes and Salads.
Salmon Salad Green salad mix, mini cucumbers, purple onions, mandarins, and topped with freshly grilled or baked salmon. This salmon salad recipe is quick, healthy, and flavorful. Make it a side dish by breaking up the salmon. Or for a dinner for two, four, or six people. Or add additional servings for more people! Notes in the recipe card. Enjoy!
This is an awesome side dish for fall! It is so easy to make Butternut Squash Risotto Recipe Crockpot or Slow Cooker.
Beet Salad Recipe - This beet salad has a homemade vinaigrette. Or use your favorite beet salad dressing or store-bought dressing. Get the tips for cooking the beets, the vinaigrette dressing, and enjoy a delicious beet salad!
Greek Pasta Salad is the perfect side dish for picnics, pot lucks or other occasions. We love making it on hot days as a quick, easy dinner idea. Delicious, healthy and fresh!
Easy Italian Pasta Salad - It is made with noodles, tomatoes, bell peppers, black olives, Italian dressing, and… Don’t let this dish’s easiness fool you, it’s delicious. This cold pasta salad recipe can easily be adapted and cut in half to serve fewer people. And is an excellent side dish or meal any time of the year!
Look no further, this is a delicious green salad loaded with all the flavors of your favorite burger. Topped with the signature Big Mac Salad Dressing, it will be a hit for dinner. Or as a side dish for a gathering...
Southwest Salad - This is a recipe for a chopped green salad with black beans, corn, avocados and tomatoes. It can be tossed with salad dressing or use bottled dressing... It is easy to make, delicious, and healthy! Print the recipe for Southwest Chopped Salad!
Tuna Macaroni Salad that is tasty, quick, and easy to make. Use macaroni noodles, albacore tuna, red onion, dill relish, mayonnaise, and spices. It can be made gluten-free. Get the recipe and enjoy!
Sweet Potato Pineapple Salad is a side dish that you can use any time of year. Serve it in a bowl or serve it in individual serving cups. Get the sweet potato salad recipe with pineapple and serve it at your next barbecue or family gathering...
Salad Recipes that are delicious and easy to make! Find salads with recipes for green salads, salads with chicken, beet salad, potato salad, and even pasta salads...
The salads are perfect to make any time of the year. Great spring and summer salads, Make a salad for brunch, lunch, dinner, or as a side dish! Enjoy!
More Recipes for Salads and Pasta Salads
Baked Goods and Desserts
Gallery of Baked Goods and Desserts
Baked Goods and Desserts
Our favorite recipes for baked goods and desserts to make! Enjoy any of the sweet treats. And find even more!
Banana Cake Recipe: Do you have ripe bananas? Tired of the same old banana bread? This easy, moist, and flavorful banana cake is the perfect solution! It’s ideal for an 8×8 or 9×9 pan, making it perfect for snacking, a sweet treat, or a small celebration. Hello, favorite family dessert!
Pumpkin Bread Recipe Easy - This is a delicious, moist, easy-to-make pumpkin loaf. The pumpkin bead can be served with or without frosting. This recipe includes an easy recipe for the cream cheese frosting too!
This Lemon Pie has a homemade graham cracker crust. The flavors are a combination of both sweet and tart. Its filling is creamy, full of lemony flavor, and topped with whipped cream. It is such a delicious pie made with lemons and condensed milk… Print the recipe!
This Key Lime Pie Recipe (No-bake) is creamy and delicious. With its sweet and tangy lime taste, it makes the perfect dessert any time of the year... It can serve 6-12 people, depending on the slice size.
Simple to make pumpkin cranberry bread. A seasonal favorite!
Chocolate-dipped strawberries recipe. This recipe for making strawberries dipped in chocolate is easy and delicious. Every bite is heavenly. The chocolate crunches into the juicy strawberries are so amazing! Make dipped strawberries for celebrations, holidays, birthdays, bridal showers, and baby showers… Or to eat for dessert! Once you find out how easy they are to make, there is no looking back.
These Pecan bars are chocolatey, sweet, and filled will pecans. Grab the Chocolate Pecan Pie Bars recipe and make them any time you are looking for a sweet treat or dessert. It's so easy to make and yummy!
Pumpkin Brownies - Make this recipe for pumpkin brownies with pecans or without chopped pecans - Delicious, fudgy, and easy to make. Easy to elevate your brownie mix!
Mini Pumpkin Pies are perfect for any dessert table. This recipe for mini pumpkin pies is so easy to make, takes very little time (1 hour or less) and will make creamy, delicious mini pies just like your favorite classic pumpkin pie.
Peanut Butter Pumpkin Spice Cookies are delicious, chewy, and have a mild pumpkin flavor. These cookies with peanut butter make a great snack, sweet treat, and are perfect for dessert.
Snickerdoodle Cookies Recipe: Hands Down The Best Cookies!
The perfect strawberry cake - homemade with fresh strawberries and topped with strawberries and whip cream enjoy this cake for dessert anytime you have fresh berries. Let them eat cake! It's berry delicious!
Lemon Curd Cupcakes: Vanilla Cupcakes with Lemon Curd Filling - Made from scratch: Vanilla Cupcakes with Homemade Lemon Curd Filling and Buttercream Frosting.
Customize the toppings for your next celebration! Lemon curd cupcakes sound fancy, right? Well, they’re surprisingly easy to make! Lemon lovers will love these cupcakes!
This blueberry banana bread with crumb topping is moist, delicious, and packed with blueberries. Serve it for a breakfast, a snack, brunch, or dessert. Baked with fresh blueberries and ripened bananas this recipe for banana bread with blueberries is so delicious!
Lemon Tiramisu - This no-bake dessert with lemon is a delicious lemon twist on a classic tiramisu. Using lady fingers, mascarpone cheese, limoncello, lemon juice... Make this recipe ahead of time to serve your family, friends, or guests.
Tiramisu Affogato: This is a coffee dessert with lady fingers, ice cream, and espresso, sprinkled with cocoa powder on top! Then garnished with a piece of chocolate. It is delicious.
More recipes: Baking
These are just a few of our family's all-time favorite recipes! Head over to our Recipe Index to find even more things to cook and bake! The recipes have been tested in our home kitchen. With a humble beginning and feeding a family of five, then down to one left in the nest. And now I'm cooking for two, unless we have family or company over. We hope you find a recipe to adapt to your liking. Enjoy cooking or baking it over and over again. Happy Cooking and Baking!
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