re: Easy, but good dinner recipes.

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.