Dinner Recipes for Every Night

Breakfast Sausage Casserole

This sausage breakfast casserole with pork sausage, eggs, and cheese is easy to prep the night before and bake in the morning for a real crowd-pleaser.

⏱️ 590 min 💪 Hard 🍽️ 8

Curry Dip with Cream Cheese

Chutney, cream cheese, and almonds provide texture and flavor to this easy, chilled curry dip that guests are sure to love.

⏱️ 35 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 16

Shrimpcargot

This shrimpcargot recipe nestles shirmp into fresh mushroom caps, mimicking escargot with garlic butter. Serve with bread to mop up the garlic butter.

⏱️ 30 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 3

Chef John's Best Mushroom Gravy

This rich mushroom gravy is made from scratch with mushrooms, beef stock, and thyme for a delicious gravy on mashed potatoes, meatloaf, or any roast.

⏱️ 60 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 6

Chef John's Remoulade 2.0

More commonly known as tartar sauce, Chef John's easy and adaptable condiment recipe for remoulade 2.0 is great with much more than just fish sticks.

⏱️ 510 min 💪 Hard 🍽️ 1

Baked BBQ Chicken Drumsticks

These delicious BBQ chicken drumsticks are baked in the oven and basted with barbecue sauce for a flavorful main dish any night of the week.

⏱️ 50 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 3

Sausage-Mushroom Chicken

Chef John's sausage-mushroom chicken recipe uses cooked sausage juices to lend meaty flavor to chicken breasts and the accompanying mushroom wine sauce.

⏱️ 55 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 2

Southern Grits Casserole

This grits casserole made with sausage, grits, and Cheddar cheese is ready in an hour and can be kept warm in a slow cooker at your breakfast buffet.

⏱️ 65 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 16

Pumpkin Cannoli

Pumpkin puree is added to the traditional filling for cannoli in this festive pumpkin cannoli dessert perfect for pumpkin-themed parties or Thanksgiving.

⏱️ 20 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 12

Louisiana Shrimp Creole

In this tasty shrimp Creole recipe, shrimp are simmered in a tomato and green bell pepper sauce. Add as much chili and hot sauce as you can handle!

⏱️ 35 min 💪 Hard 🍽️ 5

Baked Chicken with Plum Tomato Salsa

Chicken is coated in a zesty garlic-lime blend, baked golden, and served with a fresh plum tomato salsa for layers of flavor in this easy dish.

⏱️ 60 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 6

Summer Tomato Casserole

This tasty tomato casserole is a welcome side dish at your summer table, with fresh vine-ripened tomato slices baked with shredded Cheddar cheese.

⏱️ 30 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 4

Chocolate Scotcheroos

You'll love these scotcheroos if you like rice cereal snack bars — they're peanut butter flavored with a topping of chocolate and butterscotch.

⏱️ 45 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 24

Brown Sugar Shortbread

These shortbread rounds with a sugared edges and a hint of sea salt are perfect for tea time, coffee breaks, or after-school snacks.

⏱️ 30 min ⚡ Easy 🍽️ 36

Cherry Tomato Chutney

This Mozambique tomato chutney sauce is very simple to make with fresh cherry tomatoes for a delicious condiment on African curry.

⏱️ 30 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 6

Basic Crêpes

This crêpe recipe uses simple pantry ingredients to make delicious French-style pancakes. Perfect for brunch with a sweet or savory filling!

⏱️ 30 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 4

Pickled Squash

This pickled squash recipe, featuring onions and bell peppers, is marinated in a blend of vinegar, turmeric, and mustard seeds for a crisp, tangy snack.

⏱️ 295 min 💪 Hard 🍽️ 24

Quick Chicken Piccata

This easy chicken piccata recipe from Chef John pan-fries chicken in a delicious Italian piccata sauce made with lemon, capers, white wine, and parsley.

⏱️ 25 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 4

Cannoli

Make cannoli with this foolproof recipe with clear instructions and lots of tips to help you recreate the delicious cannoli you get in Italian bakeries.

⏱️ 225 min 💪 Hard 🍽️ 30

Healthier Banana Split Muffins

These healthier muffins sub applesauce for butter or oil, but still taste like banana splits with chocolate chips and dried cherries.

⏱️ 35 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 12

Pinto Bean and Sausage Soup

This soup with pinto beans and chunks of potatoes, features a tomatoey beef broth and juicy smoked sausage, making it a cozy meal to warm up with.

⏱️ 635 min 💪 Hard 🍽️ 8

Chef John's Chicken and Mushrooms

Succulent chicken breasts topped with perfectly sauteed mushrooms create a delicious, yet very simple, dish.

⏱️ 40 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 2

Mojito Fruit Salad

This unique refreshing minty mojito fruit salad recipe with watermelon, grapes, cantaloupe, kiwi, and strawberries has the refreshing flavors of a mojito.

⏱️ 80 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 6

Creamy Sweet Potato With Ginger Soup

Made with sweet potatoes and seasoned with ginger, nutmeg, and cayenne pepper, this creamy soup is topped with honey-roasted peanuts.

⏱️ 30 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 8