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Cottage pie is a classic comfort food recipe from the UK and Ireland made with ground beef and vegetables topped with white cheddar mashed potatoes. It is a great budget main dish dinner for a crowd that is easy to make ahead. I love the versatility of a dish that can be made with whatever…
Cuban style picadillo is an easy 30 minute dinner that the whole family will love and is perfect for a busy weeknight meal made with ground beef, raisins and olives simmered in a tomato sauce served over rice. What is picadillo? You can find a version of picadillo throughout Latin America. Some might add potatoes…
This Quick Italian Sausage Sandwich is made with ground Italian sausage and cheesy Provolone for an easy dinner option that is ready in under 40 minutes. Ground Italian sausage is an easy protein to start with for a quick dinner. You could also use it for Pumpkin Sausage Penne or Simple Sausage Pasta. This filling…
These homemade baked empanadas are full of amazing flavor and can be fried instead, if desired. With a crisp flaky crust stuffed with ground beef or turkey, corn, potatoes and tomatoes. Empanadas are originally from Spain and Portugal and have their origins as far back as the 1500s. When the Spaniards immigrated to South America…
Cranberry Turkey Meatloaf gives classic meatloaf a lighter holiday twist with cranberry sauce and ground turkey. A delicious alternative for Thanksgiving dinner, especially for a small group. The classic meatloaf I admit can be a touch boring although sometimes having a good cut of meatloaf with gravy and mashed potatoes sounds pretty good to me!…
Make it a dinner and a movie night by pairing watching Disney’s Monsters Inc with this Monster Green Pasta and Meatballs with an easy and healthy lemon pesto sauce. It’s a fun dinner to make with kids with lots of hidden veggies in the pesto sauce and meatballs I’m thoroughly enjoying coming up with these…
These homemade Italian meatballs are flavor packed with lots of healthy additions and then baked making them super easy to make. You’ll want to make a double batch of these and freeze the extras so you always have them on hand. I don’t know what it is about meatballs but they seem to be a…
Sweet and Sour Meatballs are an easy Chinese inspired main dish recipe that are a kid favorite, and mom too, with hidden veggies in the meatballs and a simple sauce made from scratch. This is a recipe I have adapted from my mother in law and it is one of my husband’s favorites. It’s the…
This incredible easy Korean BBQ Inspired Burger is packed full of flavor with a grilled burger topped with Korean style coleslaw for an easy summertime dinner recipe. If you have never had Korean BBQ you are seriously missing out. It’s sweet and savory and super rich and pretty much it’s amazing. I grew up in…
This post is part of an amazing burger grill giveaway hosted by GirlCarnivore but the burger epicness is all my own. This Cars Inspired Cowboy Burger has all the classic flavors of BBQ sauce, crispy bacon, and crunchy onions for a fun dinner and a movie night. One of my all time favorite burgers has…
Meatball Pizza is a kid friendly pizza with all the flavors of meatball subs and made with fresh basil, cherry tomatoes, and meatballs. I was talking with my husband about dinners and what we wanted on the meal plan for that particular week. He chimes in about wanting pizza and I mentioned that we had…
This easy homemade turkey spaghetti sauce can be made in the slow cooker or in a dutch oven and is rich and chunky with mushrooms, onions, turkey and sausage. This spaghetti sauce is my ultimate comfort food. It’s the dish I always asked for on my birthday growing up. I can tell when I’m feeling…