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What’s for dinner? From chicken, beef, casserole, crockpot dinners or instant pot meals, this list of dinner recipes gives you a ton of choices that will satisfy even the pickiest eaters.

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Easy BBQ Chicken Pizza

Easy homemade BBQ Chicken Pizza is the perfect easy weeknight meal or dinner recipe! This easy pizza recipe has chicken, cheese, and BBQ sauce all on a homemade pizza crust. It’s the perfect copycat recipe. We absolutely LOVE this pizza, whether or not I make my own crust. It’s one of the best pizza recipes…

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Easy Swedish Meatballs Recipe

This easy Swedish Meatball Recipe is a delicious 30-minute dinner. Frozen meatballs make it so easy to make, and the quick homemade sauce takes them over the top! Serve it with noodles for a cozy, comforting dinner. One of our favorite easy dinners to make is Swedish meatballs and noodles, and my recipe is so…

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Teriyaki Chicken Bowl Recipe

Make this Teriyaki Chicken Bowl for dinner, or make it ahead for meal prep. Either way, it’s an easy recipe that is light and flavorful. Tender chicken and vegetables are coated with an easy teriyaki sauce and served over rice for a delicious dinner that’s quick to make. When we want something light, we make…

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Black Bean Burgers with Beets

I started making Black Bean Burgers about 10 years ago and we’ve been enjoying them ever since. I absolutely LOVE beans, so making them into a burger was not a stretch. These are an easy 30-minute meal that’s vegan with a gluten-free option. They’re a meatless burger you WILL want to eat, and I added…

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Pesto Pasta Salad with Tortellini

This Pesto Pasta Salad recipe is perfect for parties, potlucks, BBQ or weeknight dinners! It’s full of flavor from basil pesto along with peas and sun-dried tomatoes. Plus, it’s made with cheese tortellini! This pasta salad keeps well for up to three days and is delicious for dinner or as a side dish. I think…

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Turkey Lettuce Wraps

Healthy Turkey Lettuce Wraps are an Asian-inspired dinner that you can make in 30 minutes! These lettuce wraps are keto-friendly, paleo and 0 Weight Watchers Smart points. This is such an easy dinner – it’s one of our favorite weeknight meals. Do you love PF Chang’s lettuce wraps as much as we do? So good,…

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No Yeast Pizza Dough Recipe

This 5-ingredient no yeast pizza dough recipe is a pizza crust made from scratch and it tastes just as good as one made with yeast but it’s faster and easier. Plus, if you can’t find yeast you can still have homemade pizza! In under 30 minutes you have have pizza on your table with ingredients…

Easy Dinner and Savory Recipes for every meal!

There are tons of fun and easy savory recipes here, from appetizers to dinners! These dinner ideas make it easy for you to answer the question “What’s for dinner?”

I can guarantee that all of these easy meals are picky eater approved! Choose from simple chicken recipes to 30 minute meals, one pot meals or recipes made in the instant pot or crock pot. Dinner ideas with chicken, beef, shrimp and vegetarian vary with salads, soups and pasta. Don’t forget about comfort food – I’ve got your Sunday dinner and your potluck casseroles too!

Here are some of our favorite easy dinner recipes for tonight you can make for your whole family:

Never have the dinner dilemma again with all of these easy weeknight dinners – with over 70 recipes to choose from you’ll find something your family will LOVE!

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Roasted Garlic Green Beans

Garlic roasted green beans are a great side dish for holiday dinners or any time you need a quick side dish that’s simple to make. You only need a handful of ingredients and a few minutes of prep time before you pop the green beans in the oven. Green beans are great year-round, but I…

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Small Batch 45 Minute Dinner Rolls (with Maple Butter)

Small Batch 45 minute Dinner Rolls might seem like a fairytale, but I assure you: it can be done. This is the perfect recipe to make just the right amount of rolls…so you’ll only eat four one. PIN IT NOW TO SAVE FOR LATER I love bread. I love it for breakfast. I love it…

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Parmesan Roasted Zucchini

Parmesan Roasted Zucchini is one of our favorite easy side dishes! Just a few ingredients make this the perfect side dish for a 30 minute dinner recipe. PIN IT NOW TO SAVE FOR LATER As I’ve mentioned, we absolutely love roasted vegetables. Roasting vegetables are actually my favorite way to cook them! I’ve loved zucchini…

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One Pot Taco Casserole

One Pot Taco Casserole is an easy weeknight meal! It’s the perfect amount of spicy with ground turkey, chili beans, taco seasoning, and lots of cheese! We loved this meal and we ate it for leftovers with chips as a dip. PIN IT NOW TO SAVE FOR LATER It’s finally September and that means two…

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Parmesan Roasted Cauliflower Recipe

Roasting vegetables makes them SO good – and that goes for my Roasted Cauliflower Recipe too! I am really picky about my cauliflower so if I like it roasted, then so will you! Bonus: this is coated in parmesan and herbs for a delicious twist on my new favorite vegetable. I don’t know who discovered…

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Perfect Basil Pesto

This easy homemade basil pesto sauce is the perfect from scratch recipe! My ultimate pesto recipe is so easy to make and adds so much flavor to so many meals. PIN IT NOW TO SAVE FOR LATER I’ll never forget the first time I saw pesto: I was in college and hanging out at my…

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Easy 5-Minute Gravy

This Easy 5-Minute Gravy Recipe is perfect for turkey, chicken, or beef! It’s so flavorful and it’s foolproof too and perfect for a any meal. PIN IT NOW TO SAVE FOR LATER! Gravy has always been sort of an enigma to me. I’ve never known the exact ratios of liquid and thickener or whether to…

Cupcakes

The Best Chocolate Cupcake Recipe EVER

If you’ve been looking for the BEST Chocolate Cupcake Recipe, you’ve landed in the right place! These chocolate cupcakes are soft, moist, and rich with the most amazing chocolate sour cream frosting. Plus, they are eggless cupcakes that are easy to make. I’m sharing all of my secrets and showing you how to make perfect…

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Avocado Banana Bread

Avocado Banana Bread is banana bread made even better with avocados! This healthier banana bread doesn’t have oil or butter but is tender, moist, and full of banana flavor. If you’ve never used avocado in baking, you have to try it! I promise you that it’s not weird, using avocado in banana bread. It’s delicious – and…

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Types of Chocolate for Baking

In case you ever wonder about the types of chocolate you need for baking I put together this resource for you! You’ll learn all about the different kinds of chocolate you might come across when making a recipe so you will always have chocolate success!

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Easy BBQ Chicken Pizza

How to Make a Football Cookie Cake

Are y’all ready for some football? I hope so because today I’m teaching you how to make a Football Cookie Cake – an easy recipe you can use with almost ANY cookie recipe! Honestly? If I’m being truthful, I’m never ready. Football just kind of…exists for me. For my husband? It’s a whole ‘nother ballgame.…

Cookbook

EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT!

I am beyond excited to share this news with you, news I’ve been sitting on for awhile now… I’M WRITING A COOKBOOK! Yep – a REAL cookbook, one that will be published and (hopefully) available online and in stores near you. What’s the topic? Here’s a hint:

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Mini Meatloaf Recipe

This Mini Meatloaf recipe is a great way to make homemade meatloaf during the week! Use a muffin pan to make small individual-sized meatloaf muffins that cook in half the time as a regular one. They are an easy dinner that is perfect when you’re craving something comforting and hearty. Meatloaf used to be a…

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