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Brown Sugar Ham Steak

A sweet ham steak recipe. Pairs great with roasted potatoes and green beans.

Air Fryer Lobster Tails with Lemon-Garlic Butter

Air fry lobster tails for an elegant meal for two at home. They come out succulent and meaty. Delicious with lemony garlic butter and parsley.

French toast without the milk for those who like a more solid French toast. My son's friends really liked this and would ask for the recipe to take home for their moms to make! Serve with butter and s

Simple Chicken Mayo with Parmesan and Bread Crumbs

This chicken breast recipe with mayonnaise, Parmesan cheese, bread crumbs, and herbs is a true tried-and-tested recipe! I remember seeing an ad on TV about cooking with mayonnaise and decided to give

How to Cook Trout

This trout recipe is so simple, it doesn't even have a name. I just call it Trout. This is such an easy weeknight seafood dinner. It's a really nice way to cook fish, especially if you're new at cooki

Easy Chorizo Street Tacos

These chorizo tacos use just 5 ingredients and taste amazing.

Creamy Cottage Cheese Scrambled Eggs

Cottage cheese eggs for breakfast are a nice change from regular scrambled eggs. This egg recipe comes out creamy and soft. Perfect with a slice of tomato and turkey bacon for a delicious and fast low

Lemon Garlic Chicken

I made this lemon garlic chicken randomly and it was delicious.

Oh My Arctic Char!

This arctic char recipe has perfectly balanced flavors. I'm a huge fish fan and always looking for new ways to make fish. I couldn't find any recipe that sounded tasty on the net for arctic char, so I

Baked Halibut with Crispy Panko

This baked halibut will just melt in your mouth! I like to serve this over quinoa kale salad. Also, please don't use regular bread crumbs as they are too dense.

Oeufs Cocotte (Baked Eggs)

This oeufs cocotte recipe is a French way of baking eggs in a water bath in the oven. You can add other ingredients, but this ham and cheese variation is one of the easiest. Oeufs cocotte tastes best

Instant Pot Frozen Salmon

This Instant Pot recipe for frozen salmon requires no thawing. The fillets stay warm and moist without overcooking.

Sautéed Scallops

These sautéed scallops with garlic and rosemary are so delicious! Just crush the garlic with the side of a chef's knife blade instead of chopping it, and use whole sprigs of rosemary to allow them to

Pan-Seared Red Snapper

Learn how to cook red snapper fillets with this recipe for pan-seared fish. It's great for those with gourmet tastes on a tight schedule. My husband, who isn't a fish fan, requests this recipe often.

Delicious Grilled Hamburgers

This grilled hamburger recipe makes tender, juicy burgers with a smoky flavor. Serve on buns with your favorite toppings.

Lemon Panko-Crusted Salmon

I love serving this panko salmon with a side of glazed baby carrots and garlic and feta mashed potatoes. It's a quick yet healthy meal that will satisfy your hunger

Bite-Sized Salmon Tikka

Salmon is versatile, highly nutritious, and can be bought fresh or frozen. This 'Indianised' recipe is quick, tasty, and ideal as a short snack or a meal eaten with a salad. Serve with Masala Chai. Yo

Pan-Fried Wild Salmon

Learn how to cook salmon with this simple and tasty preparation.

Cajun Air Fryer Salmon

This air fryer salmon is full of flavor with a hint of sweetness. It's moist, delicious, and ready in under 10 minutes. If using an unsalted Cajun seasoning, you may want to season the fillets with sa

Air Fryer Fried Rice

This air fryer fried rice recipe means there's no need to stand over a hot wok while making your favorite rice side dish. Cleanup is also a breeze.

Naan Bread Margherita Pizza with Prosciutto

This naan bread pizza recipe is one of my favorite Friday night dishes. This pizza is quick, simple, and delicious. Instead of making the pizza dough from scratch, I decided to use naan bread for the

Grilled Salmon Steaks Italian-Style

I wanted to get more fish in our diet, so I experimented with different flavorings for salmon steaks. This combination seemed to always be especially delicious with a risotto and vegetable side.

Breaded and Fried Scallops

I love scallops, and I wanted to try them fried but had limited ingredients. This was super easy and delicious. I started to make it all the time.

Grilled Salmon with Maple Syrup and Soy Sauce

This is a quick and tasty salmon recipe with maple syrup and soy sauce, with almost no cleanup required. Serve with brown rice and steamed pea pods.

Easy Blackened Swordfish

This white fish is coated in a tasty seasoning blend and quickly blackened at high temperature to seal in the juices.

Tuna From Can To Frying Pan

This was something experimental that I came up with the other night because I was hungry and had a can of tuna leftover from lunch. This is something that you can also experiment with and tweak it to

Tuna Steaks with Garlic-Herb Cream Sauce

Tuna steaks are dressed up with a dreamy garlic-herb cream sauce. I served mine on top of wilted spinach.

Sea Bass Barbecue

This sea bass barbecue recipe is simple. If the fish is fresh, this dish is sure to please. Great for beachside cookouts.

Rice Cooker Oats

It's done in a rice cooker rather than the stove.

Avocado Toast with Egg

I love avocado toast, and if you add an egg to it you have a full meal. Sometimes I use balsamic vinegar to flavor the avocado instead of the lemon juice. You can make the egg any way you like, but I

Tomato Basil Salmon

This quick salmon dish is perfect for a weeknight dinner. Serve with a side of sauteed spinach and a glass of pinot noir.

Easy Barbeque Beef Tenderloin Steak

This is a simple treatment for tender cuts. No long marinating, no complicated basting sauce - just the steak and a little garlic.

Fried Bass

I made this while camping. It was a break at camp when nobody was there, so I picked up some worms at the trading post and went off to fish down at the lake. I caught 12 bass with the help of my dad,

Peanut Butter and Banana French Toast

This banana French toast is a unique and delicious recipe that my mom used to make. It is so easy that even kids can help to make it. Serve it hot with butter and syrup.

Turkey Avocado Panini

This is such an easy, light, refreshing and YUMMY sandwich!

Easy Chicken with Mushrooms and Zucchini in Cream Sauce

A quick and easy dinner with chicken breast, zucchini, and mushrooms that is one of my go-to recipes midweek because it is ready in under 30 minutes.

Pasta with SwPasta with Swiss Chardiss Chard

Garden fresh Swiss chard is quickly cooked with olive oil, garlic, and capers in this quick and easy Italian-inspired meal.

Scrambled Peanut Butter Eggs

My husband grew up in West Africa where peanut butter stew was popular, so he started wondering if peanut butter would go with eggs. The result was this recipe. It was a hit!

Tuna Panini Melt

A new twist on an old standby.

Scrambled Eggs and Tomatoes

A fast meal of eggs scrambled with tomatoes, and then seasoned with some salt, sugar, and soy sauce. This was the very first recipe I cooked, with a little help from my parents...I think I was about 5

Salmon with Garlic-Butter Sauce

This is a light baked salmon dish that serves two quickly and easily for a perfect weeknight meal. Serve with salad or potatoes.

Lucky's Quickie Chickie

Fresh basil is essential to get that fresh burst of flavor with a hint of sweet and sour in this dish. The ingredients are all on hand when my herb garden is in season! Add a salad and a favorite vege

Sheet Pan Chicken and Sweet Potatoes

This easy meal uses just one baking sheet. The chicken comes out with delicious crispy skin, which pairs well with crunchy, peppery watercress and crisp, salty bacon. The roasted sweet potatoes add a

Linguine With Cherry Tomato Sauce

Every bite of this summery tomato pasta is studded with bites of crispy pancetta.

Cheesy Chicken Nachos With Avocado and Radish

Skip the beef and add some shredded rotisserie chicken to your nachos instead.

Sheet Pan Chicken Thighs With Salsa Verde

This chicken thigh dinner is like the story of a rom-com: tacos (that taste like enchiladas) meet a short ingredient list, and the result is definitely happily ever after. In all seriousness, though,

Egg Salad Toast with Fresh Herbs and Capers

These open-faced egg toast beauties are much more than your average egg salad sandwich—the flavors, textures, and even look are elegant and original. Folded into the egg salad mixture is a mustardy

Grandma Pie With Pepperoni and Pink Sauce

Grandmas are often associated with delicious, comforting food, and this grandma-style pepperoni pizza is no exception.

Shrimp Lo Mein

Lo mein—a Chinese dish that means stirred noodles—is a standard takeout order for many Americans, but making it at home is an opportunity to not only expand your culinary repertoire, but to cut do

Eggplant and Tomato Masala With Chickpeas

Delicious dinner alert! This hearty, Indian-inspired vegetarian recipe comes together in under 30 minutes and still manages to build intense flavor. That’s because you’ll layer in seasonings twice

Crispy Chicken Cutlets With Artichoke Dressing

A delicious chicken dinner in under 30 minutes? Yes, it’s possible, and in the case of these crispy, breadcrumb-coated cutlets, you’ll be licking the plate to get every last bite. What makes this

Chicken Curry in a Hurry

The name says it all. Plenty of curry dishes require simmering the sauce over the stove for upwards of 45 minutes. Our dish comes together, from start to finish, in less time. The shortcut relies on r

Pasta With Turkey and Broccoli

Transform a few pantry staples—plus a head of broccoli and lean ground turkey—into a hearty, healthy weeknight dinner.

Whole Grain Spaghetti With Kale and Tomatoes

This healthy whole grain pasta recipe is a great way to get kids to eat their veggies.

Southwestern Beef Chili With Corn

Packed with flavor but not too spicy, this chili gets its southwestern flare from poblano peppers and chili powder. After cooking a base of onion, carrots, and peppers, you’ll brown the meat and sti

Spanish Omelet With Potatoes and Chorizo

A riff on Spain's tortilla española or tortilla de patatas, this frittata-like meal's delicious any time of day. Serve it with toast and fruit at brunch or, as shown, with a green salad and roll come

Smoky-Sweet Steak Supper

Sometimes you need a simple recipe that won’t take a lot of time or fancy ingredients, but will still deliver great flavor. Enter this steak dinner, which combines a brown sugar-and-paprika rubbed s

Steak-and-Potato Skewers With Orange Salsa

File this one under: the recipe that is just as family friendly as it is dinner party-worthy. It turns the classic steak and potatoes dinner into grilled skewers and the result is perfection. The spic

Sheet Pan Cod and Potatoes

Bright, light, and easy is the name of the game with this simple one-pan fish dinner. It all comes together on a single sheet pan thanks to strategic timing

Saucy Shrimp and Noodle Stir-Fry

This easy stir fry recipe is your ticket to a quick and flavorful meal.

Green Curry With Halibut and Corn

Heat the oil in a large, deep skillet over medium-high heat. Add the shallots and green curry paste. Cook, stirring, until the shallots are soft, 2 to 3 minutes. Add the coconut milk and chicken broth

Crispy Pork Cutlets With Fennel-Chickpea Slaw

Don’t let the five-step procedure or the somewhat lengthy ingredient list fool you. Our Crispy Pork Cutlets With Fennel-Chickpea Slaw really do come together in half an hour. And, better yet, they d

Sweet and Spicy Pork Tenderloin

When you think of pork tenderloin, all too often what comes to mind is a dry, round slice of unappetizing meat. Here the opposite is the case. A pound of tenderloin is braised in a brown sugar and soy

Broiled Salmon on Rice With Broccoli

This salmon and rice recipe will win over even the pickiest eaters. File it under "easy and healthy weeknight dinner."

Quick Spring Lamb and Vegetable Stew

All you need is one pot to bring this satisfying stew recipe together.

Shrimp and Spinach Pasta with Leeks

Shrimp and spinach pasta with leeks is a quick and easy supper that is finished in 20 minutes flat. Sautéed leeks and shrimp combined with a touch of cream, lemon zest, and a handful of spinach serve

Salmon With Creamy Cucumber-Fennel Salad

This decidedly grown-up dinner delivers crispy but moist salmon alongside a creamy, crunchy cucumber salad. Serve the duo with a slice of rye bread for a Nordic meal that’s as elegant as it is delic

Linguine With Shrimp and Artichokes

A crisp, golden brown topping—sautéed panko crumbs mixed with chopped parsley—elevates this pasta dish, which looks more elegant and time-consuming than the 25 minutes of hands-on time it really

Slow-Cooker Chipotle Short Ribs With Tangy Cabbage Slaw

Short ribs become fall-apart delicious when simmered with onion, garlic, tomato paste, chipotles, and cumin.

Grilled Turkey-Zucchini Burgers

Zucchini is the magic ingredient in these extra juicy turkey burgers.

White Pizza With Artichokes, Rosemary, and Olives

It's hard to find someone who doesn't love pizza. You can add to this quick dinner idea by preparing a side salad while your dough is baking.

Coconut Chicken Cutlets With Mango Chutney Slaw

These crispy coconut-coated chicken cutlets will make dinner exciting again.

Summer Nachos

These vegetarian nachos are loaded with juicy corn, melted cheese, and a tangy avocado cream.

Smoky Sheet Pan Salmon and Potatoes

This sheet pan seafood dinner is full of surprising flavors.

Chicken Pot Pie Empanadas

Transform a store-bought pie crust into this family-favorite comfort food.

Chicken Satay Lettuce Wraps

Here’s a fresh and easy chicken dinner that’s great for weeknights when you need to get food on the table fast. Despite being quick, it packs a ton of flavor, thanks to the addictive coconut-peanu

Creamy Chicken and Mushroom Pasta

Who doesn't love pasta with mushrooms and chicken?

Chicken Paprikash Soup

Convert a beloved Hungarian chicken dish into a comforting soup that's quick and easy enough for a weeknight.

Grilled Chicken and Spinach Quesadillas

For a quick weeknight dinner that's also a crowd-pleaser, throw together these chicken and spinach quesadillas on the grill. Our method proves easier than traditional stovetop preparation, and lends t

Meatless Meatball Subs

You won’t miss the meat in these savory eggplant meatballs with umami-filled mushrooms. Unlike a lot of veggie meatballs, these hold their shape and are incredibly versatile. They’re great here, i

Sunny-Side-Up Sheet Pan Breakfast

Where to begin when describing this tempting brunch recipe? It’s one pan, hands off, and packed with delicious flavors. You’ll start by crisping the prosciutto on a baking sheet. Not only does thi

Potato, Egg, and Avocado Hash

Hold the toast this a.m. Instead, use your avocados to top this one-skillet vegetarian crowd-pleaser.

Crispy Bacon and Egg Tacos

With bits of crispy bacon, fluffy eggs, creamy avocado, and the punch of hot sauce, these tacos are a study in deliciousness.

Turkey Sloppy Joes With Coleslaw

A mix of tomato sauce, barbecue sauce, and Worcestershire ensures the sandwich is juicy and flavorful.

Turkey-Barley Vegetable Soup

Add the spinach just before serving to preserve its bright color and fresh flavor.

Lasagna-Style Baked Ziti

The perfect weeknight dinner does, indeed, exist.

Beef and Cabbage Skillet Supper

This unique and completely delightful recipe starts with sautéed ground beef, seasoned with cinnamon and coriander. Add in sliced green cabbage and onion for a serving of vegetables that don’t stea

Eggplant and Chicken Caponata Pizza

Caponata is a flavorful, eggplant-based relish that pairs well with chicken on a pizza.

Greek Lamb Burgers With Baked Eggplant Fries

This delicious burger recipe is a simple upgrade to the typical beef variation. The patties are a mixture of lamb, feta, and onion, topped with a cucumber-and-onion yogurt sauce. Alongside, are crispy

Spicy Summer Squash Stir-Fry

Delicious, veg-forward dinner on the table in 20 minutes? Yes, please.

Curried Eggplant With Tomatoes and Basil

This meat-free meal gets a bold, slightly nutty flavor—and lots of protein and fiber—from earthy chickpeas.

Ratatouille

Nothing says high summer like a batch of fragrant simmering ratatouille on the stove. And since no two ratatouille dishes are exactly the same, you can really make this your own.

Seared Tilapia With Watercress-Mango Salad

Season the tilapia with ½ teaspoon salt and ¼ teaspoon pepper. Heat 1 teaspoon oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat.

Spiced Cod With Broccoli-Quinoa Pilaf

This quinoa and fish recipe pairs healthy ingredients with a kick of spice.

Spaghetti & Spinach with Sun-Dried Tomato Cream Sauce

To achieve flavor quickly in this sun-dried tomato pasta recipe, we use the oil from sun-dried tomatoes to create the base of the cream sauce. Meanwhile, the residual heat of the pasta wilts the spina