Dinner Recipes for Every Night

Chef John's Baba Ganoush

Baba ganoush is a Middle-Eastern creamy, smoky eggplant dip that's easy to make with tender eggplants, garlic, tahini, and lemon juice. Great with pita chips!

⏱️ 60 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 12

Brown Mustard Potato Salad

This brown mustard potato salad, with hard-boiled eggs, onion, dill, parsley, and sweet relish, is close to a traditional recipe with a slight twist.

⏱️ 45 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 8

Blue Marshmallow Sundaes

Blue-tinted marshmallow creme is folded into vanilla ice cream and frozen for 8 hours before topping with fresh strawberries to make this red, white, and blue sundae.

⏱️ 490 min 💪 Hard 🍽️ 8

Creamy Chicken Lasagna

This delicious chicken lasagna is made with tender poached chicken breasts, cream cheese, tomato pasta sauce, and lots of mozzarella cheese.

⏱️ 90 min 💪 Hard 🍽️ 6

Yummy Pork Noodle Casserole

This pork casserole with noodles and mixed vegetables is creamy, cheesy, easy to make, and a great way to use up leftover roast pork or pork chops.

⏱️ 60 min 💪 Hard 🍽️ 6

Traditional Christmas Cheese Ball

This traditional Christmas cheese ball recipe combines cream cheese, onion, smoked beef, Worcestershire sauce, and green olives, then rolled in walnuts.

⏱️ 145 min 💪 Hard 🍽️ 12

Chef John's Fresh Tomato Sauce

Tomato sauce made from fresh tomatoes is a delicious and simple way to put vine-ripened summer tomatoes to good use and it tastes way better the jarred stuff.

⏱️ 35 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 10

Baked Lemon Chicken Thighs with Mushroom Sauce

Chicken thighs are brined in a mixture of lemon juice and savory seasonings to keep them super moist. Baked with layers of fresh lemon and served with a quick mushroom sauce, this meal is sure to impress.

⏱️ 310 min 💪 Hard 🍽️ 4

Spicy Turkey and Cranberry Pinwheels

This spicy turkey and cranberry pinwheel recipe will wow holiday guests. Roll turkey, cheese, and cranberry salsa together for colorful finger food.

⏱️ 80 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 32

Best City Chicken

City chicken is a skewer of pork cubes, sometimes also with veal, that is seasoned and coated, deep-fried, and then baked to resemble fried chicken.

⏱️ 75 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 7

Famous Pork Chops

Pork chops coated with a crumbly cracker mixture and egg then baked.

⏱️ 60 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 4

Edamame Hummus with Garlic Scapes

This edamame hummus with garlic scapes recipe is an inventive, delicious version of hummus made with edamame, cashews, and fresh garden garlic scapes.

⏱️ 25 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 24

Easy Rhubarb Tonic

This easy rhubarb tonic recipe, made with sugar, baking soda, and water, can be mixed into cocktails or club soda for a unique and refreshing beverage.

⏱️ 45 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 6

Vodka Paralyzer

A paralyzer is a creamy cocktail made with simple ingredients — cola, coffee liqueur, vodka, milk, and ice — for a boozy, milkshake-like drink.

⏱️ 5 min ⚡ Easy 🍽️ 1

Hickory Smoked Salmon Skewers

These juicy salmon skewers from Lindsey S. Love of Dolly and Oatmeal are marinated in a mustard-based Carolina BBQ glaze and then grilled over hickory wood chips for a smoky, full-depth flavor.

⏱️ 23 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 4

Cocktail Meatballs

These cocktail meatballs are tasty, slow-cooked beef meatballs simmered in cranberry sauce, brown sugar, and chili sauce, perfect for holiday parties.

⏱️ 100 min 💪 Hard 🍽️ 10

Homemade Chicken Fettuccine

This chicken fettuccine Alfredo recipe is an easy, deliciously rich, creamy pasta, without added flour like other recipes. It is unique and versatile.

⏱️ 25 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 4

Shrimp Chowder

An easy shrimp chowder with cooked potatoes and sautéed onions is enriched with white wine, cream cheese, and milk for a rich and creamy seafood soup.

⏱️ 25 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 4

Easy Baked Potato Salad

Try this easy baked potato salad recipe with bacon, sour cream, and mayo. Adjust the amount of seasonings, cheese, and bacon to your liking.

⏱️ 80 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 8

Easy Hot Chicken Salad

This tangy hot chicken salad is loaded with tender chicken, celery, and almonds, baked in a cheesy cream sauce topped with a cornflake crust.

⏱️ 60 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 7

Baked Taco Dip

This baked taco dip recipe features seasoned ground beef layered with cream cheese, salsa, and Cheddar cheese for an appetizer that can feed a crowd.

⏱️ 40 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 8

Cool and Refreshing Cantaloupe Drink

This cool and refreshing cantaloupe drink recipe uses shredded sweet cantaloupe, mashed with sugar, and milk to make this refreshing summer treat.

⏱️ 15 min ⚡ Easy 🍽️ 8

Chef John's Green Chicken Chili

Tomatillo salsa and green chilies lend fresh, green flavor to this version of chili verde that's made hearty with tender chicken thighs and white kidney beans.

⏱️ 110 min 💪 Hard 🍽️ 6

Fresh Tomato Zucchini Soup

This fresh tomato zucchini soup recipe with onion and garlic features tarragon and dill, stewed into a summer dish that pairs great with crusty bread.

⏱️ 70 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 8