Dinner Recipes for Every Night

Chef John's Cherry Clafoutis

Clafoutis is a fresh cherry baked custard French dessert. And, Chef John's cherry clafoutis recipe is one of the most delicious ways to enjoy cherries.

⏱️ 65 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 8

Cheese Squares Appetizer

This is a wonderful baked appetizer blending the tastes of Cheddar cheese and jalapeno peppers.

⏱️ 45 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 16

Island-Style Sardines and Rice

Sardines are simmered with onion and tomato and served over white rice for an Island-style meal perfect as breakfast with a cup of coffee.

⏱️ 25 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 4

Summertime Limeade Fizzle

This homemade limeade recipe, made with club soda, sugar, and fresh lime juice, yields a refreshing and fizzy drink perfect for sweltering summer days.

⏱️ 10 min ⚡ Easy 🍽️ 16

Tortellini Bacon Broccoli Salad

This pasta salad recipe is made with cheese tortellini, bacon, and broccoli with a coleslaw dressing. It makes a flavorful side, lunch, or light meal.

⏱️ 90 min 💪 Hard 🍽️ 10

Instant Pot Stuffing

This easy and flavorful Instant Pot stuffing does double duty on turkey day by freeing up space in your oven and delighting all of your guests!

⏱️ 55 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 8

Favorite Old-Fashioned Gingerbread

This favorite old-fashioned gingerbread recipe comes together quickly with nostalgic molasses and warm spices. It's moist, soft, and lightly spiced.

⏱️ 40 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 9

Banana Chiffon Cake

This banana chiffon cake recipe produces a moist, soft, and flavorful cake. Use very ripe bananas and one cup sugar for the best and lightest taste.

⏱️ 95 min 💪 Hard 🍽️ 16

Chef John's Cloud Eggs

Chef John's cloud egg recipe features whisked egg whites, like a meringue, then baked into puffy clouds. Serve on buttery toast for a fun take on a classic.

⏱️ 20 min ⚡ Easy 🍽️ 2

Uglies

These savory barbequed beef treats aren't pretty, but they are delicious. You can freeze them for a quick dinner, but hide them or your family will eat them up!

⏱️ 40 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 8

Dan's W.P.B. Sandwich

A chunk of watermelon, layered between white bread slathered with peanut butter and sprinkled with cinnamon sugar, makes Dan's w.p.b. a unique sandwich.

⏱️ 10 min ⚡ Easy 🍽️ 1

Creamed Spinach

This creamed spinach recipe, made with the frozen chopped variety, milk, butter, Parmesan, garlic, and nutmeg, complements a roast and can be made ahead.

⏱️ 25 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 8

Chocolatissimo

This chocolatissimo recipe is a unique, decadent, and chocolaty cake, with two-thirds of the mousse baked and one-third spread on top after baking.

⏱️ 620 min 💪 Hard 🍽️ 16

Raspberry Shortcake Ice Pops

This refreshing raspberry shortcake ice pops recipe blends raspberries, yogurt, cottage cheese, and sugar together, then freezes for a healthy indulgence.

⏱️ 250 min 💪 Hard 🍽️ 6

Slow Cooker Loaded Potato Soup

This loaded potato soup has the same ingredients as loaded baked potatoes — bacon, Cheddar cheese, sour cream, and scallions but in soup form!

⏱️ 390 min 💪 Hard 🍽️ 8

Tempeh-Bean Stuffed Peppers

Vegetarians love stuffed peppers and meat-eaters will too with this recipe that includes tempeh, spinach, cannellini beans, and feta cheese.

⏱️ 67 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 2

Healthy Strawberry Muffins

Make your muffins a little healthier by using whole wheat flour, unsweetened applesauce, and sliced strawberries in the batter.

⏱️ 35 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 6

Scripture Cake

This old-fashioned Scripture cake is a spiced fruit cake with figs, raisins, almonds, honey, and warm spices. This recipe uses Bible verses to list each ingredient.

⏱️ 60 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 18

Almond Crescent Cookies

These delicate crescent almond cookies made with finely chopped almonds and almond extract make the perfect melt-in-the-mouth holiday treat.

⏱️ 60 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 24

Brown Butter Apple Crisp Bars

This brown butter apple crisp bar recipe features brown butter in both the crust and topping of these bars, adding a crunchy, nutty flavor to every bite.

⏱️ 105 min 💪 Hard 🍽️ 16

Vegan Baked Carrots

Carrots are combined with olive oil, orange juice, and cumin and baked in the oven. They come out incredibly tender and delicious, a perfect vegan side for Christmas.

⏱️ 55 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 4

Sesame Sake Pork Medallions

Toasty sesame seeds and sake cooking wine is a perfect pair for versatile pork tenderloin.

⏱️ 30 min 🔥 Medium 🍽️ 4

Cherry Ice Cream

This eggless cherry-almond ice cream recipe, made with low-fat yogurt and milk and heavy cream, features cherry juice concentrate for a deep magenta color.

⏱️ 270 min 💪 Hard 🍽️ 4

Peanut Butter Haystacks

This haystack recipe uses 4 simple ingredients to make sweet, salty, simple, no-bake candy with chow mein noodles, butterscotch, and peanut butter.

⏱️ 20 min ⚡ Easy 🍽️ 12