Dinner Recipes for Every Night

Simple Summer Squash Soup

Butternut squash is steamed and pureed with Cheddar cheese and milk creating a simple summer squash soup.

⏱️ 25 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 4

Red Pepper Soup

This red pepper soup is rich, creamy, and flavorful from sautéed bell peppers, onion, and garlic simmered in broth and thickened with cream.

⏱️ 55 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 5

The Ultimate Chili

Red wine in chili adds intense flavor! This chili is big on taste with beef, beans, veggies, and spices, and the wine really kicks it up a notch.

⏱️ 380 min 💪 Hard 🍽️ 6

Persian Rice

Chef John's Persian rice features fluffy basmati rice flavored with butter, saffron, and cumin, topped with slices of beautiful golden crisp potatoes.

⏱️ 70 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 8

Simple White Cake

This easy cake recipe requires just 7 ingredients and tastes like you spent hours making it, even though it's out of the oven in under an hour.

⏱️ 40 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 12

Paneer Tikka Masala

This paneer tikka masala has chunks of paneer cheese cooked in butter with onions and peppers in a creamy, perfectly spicy tomato curry sauce.

⏱️ 60 min 💪 Hard 🍽️ 6

Kid-Friendly Chicken Katsu

This Asian-inspired chicken recipe sure is kid-friendly--what youngster doesn't like fried crispy chicken pieces dipped in a sweet soy-ketchup sauce?

⏱️ 40 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 8

Plum Buckle

This plum buckle recipe features layers of flavor and texture thanks to a moist cake with a thick layer of fresh plums and a sweet streusel topping.

⏱️ 75 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 12

Roasted Zucchini

Roasted zucchini seasoned with garlic, cayenne, and lemon cooked until caramelized and golden crisp for a delicious summer squash side dish.

⏱️ 25 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 2

Lemony Garlic Shrimp with Pasta

This elegant lemony garlic shrimp with pasta recipe features angel hair pasta, shrimp, garlic, lemon, white wine, fresh parsley, and red pepper flakes.

⏱️ 145 min 💪 Hard 🍽️ 6

Spicy Chile Lime Shrimp

Golden fried shrimp are tossed with onion, chile peppers, and lime juice in this quick shrimp dish you can serve over greens or grains.

⏱️ 40 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 4

Three Bean Potluck Casserole

This three-bean casserole is a great dish for a crowd. Preparation is simple and fast and everyone loves it. It can also be made in the slow cooker.

⏱️ 90 min 💪 Hard 🍽️ 5

Slow Cooker Mojo Pork

In this slow cooker mojo pork recipe, Cuban-style pork butt roast is marinated with both fresh orange and lime juices and zests and cooked low and slow.

⏱️ 805 min 💪 Hard 🍽️ 16

Green Beans Almondine

Green beans almondine is a delicious French side dish of buttery green beans with garlic topped with toasted almonds for an elegant addition to any meal.

⏱️ 25 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 4

Vegetarian Lentil Soup

This hearty vegetarian lentil soup, flavored with warm spices, is made in a pressure cooker for a quick, easy, and comforting winter meal.

⏱️ 15 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 8

Easy Baked Beans

These easy baked beans are made with canned beans, molasses, brown sugar, and onion baked in the oven until thick and flavorful for a simple meal.

⏱️ 195 min 💪 Hard 🍽️ 10

Three Bean Salad

This three bean salad made with green beans, wax beans, and kidney beans keeps well, serves a lot of people, and is great for summer picnics and cookouts.

⏱️ 735 min 💪 Hard 🍽️ 16

Beatrice Savitz's Apricot Cookies

My grandmother, a wonderful baker and cook, made these.

⏱️ 60 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 16

Spicy Spanish-Style Rice

Chef John's Spanish-inspired spicy rice with tomatoes, jalapeños, and chili powder is super easy to make for a fiery, crowd-pleasing side dish.

⏱️ 45 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 8

Cauliflower Parmigiana with Gruyère Sauce

Cauliflower is paired with a delicious Gruyère cheese sauce to create a tasty gratin that works with any main dish.

⏱️ 45 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 2

Pork and Black Bean Stew

This Brazilian pork and black bean stew recipe features pork tenderloin and chorizo sausage along with canned black beans, onion, garlic, and bay leaves.

⏱️ 60 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 4

Norwegian Krumkake

Krumkake is a Norwegian crispy wafer-like cookie that's made on a special decorative iron, then rolled into a cone. Serve plain, or dip in chocolate and fill with whipped cream.

⏱️ 40 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 50

Cheddar-Thyme Flaky Biscuits

These easy-to-make nine-ingredient Cheddar-thyme flaky biscuits rely on a basic biscuit recipe with added shredded Cheddar cheese and chopped fresh thyme.

⏱️ 25 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 10

Ranch Chicken Tacos

Turn leftover rotisserie chicken into kid-friendly ranch chicken tacos. Corn tortillas are filled with shredded chicken, your favorite taco fixings, and a creamy sour cream ranch dressing.

⏱️ 25 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 4