Easy, but good dinner recipes.

Chicken Pot Pie Recipe

Roast Chicken thighs

7-8 Bone in thighs with skin on


Olive Oil
Salt
Pepper
Fresh Garlic (2 cloves)
Fresh Thyme
Butter

Preheat oven to 425
coat thighs with Olive Oil Season thighs with salt, pepper and Thyme

In a cast iron skillet put thighs skin side down for a 3 minutes and flip. Add 4 tablespoons butter and 2 cloves crushed garlic.


put in oven for 45 minutes. After 45 minutes cut oven off and leave in oven for addition 20-25 minutes. Skin will be sure crispy and butter will bond to bottom of the thighs.

Google “sheet pan and dinner recipes”. Therer are some really good ones out there. Most recent one I did was a lemon garlic chicken with rosemary and thyme that was delicious.

On lazy nights I like to do ground meat and potatoes. Something my mom grew up on and made for us kids.

It's exactly what it sounds like: browned, seasoned ground meat, potatoes tossed in oil, butter, cajun seasoning...all put in a huge pot.

Something the kids will eat without complaining and will fill them up + no skill involved whatsoever on my end.

get a big pot of boiling water and cook noodles from two boxes of mac and cheese and 4 bricks of the shrimp ramen

mix all the noodles, cheese from mac and cheese and seasoning pack from the raman

add one pack of cut up hot dogs

let it all heat up and melt together

serve

did a chicken stir fry yesterday

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2. Italian beef sandwiches. Throw a small roast in the crock pot with a jar of sliced pepperoncinis and a jar of roasted red peppers in the morning. When done in the evening, put that on some toasted hoagie rolls, etc with some provolone and bake til the cheese is melted.

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Just saw a tik tok on these and am really excited to try this out. They added the au jus gravy packet and I think even a ranch for some reason?

Last Monday, I cooked a Greek seasoned tri-tip, fajita seasoned chicken and 2 lemon dill pork tenderloins. The chicken ended up in a casserole with onion/bell pepper, rice and enchilada sauce and topped with cheese. The pork will go with steamed broccoli tonight, and the tri tip was eaten throughout last week.

Crock pot roast and chicken, shredded for meals for the week.

Roasted cabbage steaks are easy and very filling, especially with the above shredded meat or taco meat.

I do A 4 ingredient tomato sauce pasta from Marcella Hazan’s classic cool. Book

Crush a can of San marzano tomato’s in a pot with 1 onion cut in half, 5 tablespoons of butter and salt. Reduce down. Remove the onion and add pasta.

It’s amazing super easy.

Baked Barbecue Meatballs

Take a bunch of frozen Italian style meatballs ( I use ones from Costco) and place in a casserole dish. Squirt a sweet barbecue sauce like Sweet Baby Ray’s all over top, cover, and bake at 350 for 30 - 45 min. Serve with parsleyed potatoes, and sweet peas or steamed broccoli. Alternatively, make your own meatballs and do the same.


Smoked Sausage & Potatoes Skillet.

Slice and brown smoked sausage in a big skillet. Remove and reserve sausage. Sauté diced onions, bell pepper, celery, and garlic in the sausage fat. To the skillet of sautéed veg, add large diced/chunked potatoes that have been parboiled until almost tender. Add the sausage back to the skillet, along with a little chicken stock, let it simmer till potatoes are at desired tenderness, with some browned edges.


Sausage or Meatloaf Sauce Piquant

My husband’s choice for using leftover meatloaf is to chunk it up and throw it in a pot with a jar of Benoit’s Sauce Piquant and let it simmer for awhile. He serves it over rice. He’ll do the same with leftover (or freshly cooked) smoked sausage.


When I make rice dressing or eggplant dressing, I will freeze portions of the cooked dressing mixture (sans rice) in 8 oz containers. When my husband and I are eating different dinners (which happens often because he doesn’t eat low carb), he’ll pull out a dressing mix from the freezer, cook some rice, and have that as a side or entree for his meal.