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Here’s a great basic meatloaf recipe for your files. Meatloaf is homestyle cooking at its best - tasty, satisfying, and economical. It’s great for an easy weeknight dinner and the leftovers can be used to make sandwiches the next day.
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This hamburger macaroni soup shows up quite often for dinner at our house, especially during the fall and winter.
It’s warm and satisfying without being too heavy and so easy to stir together. For an even lighter version, I sometimes substitute ground turkey for the ground beef in my hamburger macaroni soup.
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If you are one of those people who believes that pork chops and apples are a match made in heaven, here are two baked pork chops recipes worth considering - one includes a sprinkling of cheese; the other a delicious mustard sauce.
Baked pork chops with apples make a perfect quick and easy weekday meal, especially in the Fall when apples are in season. I love simple recipes that can bake unattended giving me time to mix together a simple salad or side dish to complete the meal.
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Baked pork chops recipes are a great choice for both easy everyday dinners and stress-free casual entertaining. While the pork chops bake, you can easily work on making the salad and/or vegetables that will accompany them. To keep things even easier, consider baking or roasting some potatoes or a vegetable medley in a pan beside the chops.
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This recipe for hamburger goulash with elbow macaroni is an old stand-by straight from Mom’s recipe box. She learned to make this ground beef and macaroni skillet dish by watching her friend’s mom back in the 1950s in a small town in rural coastal Maine. It’s how we learned to cook once upon a time long before the Food Network - at the sides of our moms, grandmas, aunts, and friends’ moms.
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Trying to come up with an idea for dinner that wouldn’t require a trip to the market, tuna casserole suddenly popped into my head.
With a quick check of the fridge and pantry, I realized, that I did indeed have the ingredients for tuna casserole - tuna, small pasta shells, an onion, broccoli, peas, cream of mushroom soup, milk, cheese, and potato chips.
This is a great easy recipe for those times you want to keep things quick and simple. I love a casserole’s make now, bake later versatility. You can mix it together when you have a few minutes to spare, place it in the fridge, and just pop it into a preheated oven at dinner time. While the casserole bakes you can prepare a quick salad, enjoy a glass of wine, or sneak in a few minutes of exercise.
After checking with several cookbooks this is the simple recipe for tuna casserole we’ll be having for dinner tonight. It’s really just a jazzed up version of The Classic Tuna Noodle Casserole that appears on the back of the Campbells Cream of Celery Soup Can.
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I love meatloaf. It reminds me of mom and home and simpler times. It’s comfort food.
Meatloaf is quick and easy to make - just mix a few ingredients in a bowl, turn them into a pan and bake for an hour or so. It’s quick, easy, and satisfying.
I’m always on the lookout for quick and easy meatloaf recipes. It seems like I never make the same meatloaf twice - always experimenting, tweaking and trying new flavor combinations. For the past several years I’ve been making most of my meatloaf recipes with ground turkey - it is lighter, less rich, less heavy. Sometimes I use 2 parts ground turkey and 1 part turkey sausage for a little extra zing.
Here’s a basic meatloaf recipe for classic meatloaf with several ideas for optional additions. There are also several variations so it’s like getting many quick and easy meatloaf recipes in one. Experiment and find the best meatloaf recipe for you.
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I tried another great recipe from this month’s issue of Real Simple last night–turkey and roasted red pepper meat loaf. It was delicious; by far the best turkey meat loaf recipe I have found to date and pretty straight forward–ground turkey, parmesan, egg, bread crumbs, mustard, parsley and a small jar of roasted red peppers. I added a teaspoon of thyme for good measure. Chopped fresh basil would be a nice variation that I plan to try next time. It was a little salty and will cut back on the parmesan a bit next time too.
I served it with a simple mixed green salad with balsamic vinaigrette, as well as roasted onions, potatoes and sweet potatoes. My guys were in heaven, giving dinner two thumbs up. This one’s going to the top of my meat loaf file. Try it for yourself and let me know what you think.
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Seeking something a little out of the ordinary, yet relatively easy for dinner last night, I came up with this shrimp & chicken sausage jambalaya. It’s based on a recipe I came across in a new magazine called Clean Eating.
I used shrimp and sausage since that was what I had in the freezer. Always looking for ways to increase our veggie count, I added chopped celery and sliced fennel to the original version’s call for onion and pepper.
While not a traditional jambalaya ingredient, the fennel worked nicely. Served with a caesar salad, it was a big hit with both my husband and stepson.
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