Recipes for easy weeknight cooking
Recipes for easy weeknight cooking
Pasta with peas and bacon is a combo that gets me licking my lips just thinking about it. The sweet and salty combo had me at hello. Add a creamy dressing and comforting pasta and pass me a fork because I’ve already decided to not care about the calorie count.
These little sticks are loaded with all of the nutritious goodness of skin-on zucchini and baked to crispy perfection. Dip them in some ketchup and I swear you’ll be thinking “these are SO good!” Zucchini fries are easy to make with just 3 basic ingredients. Whip them up in 10 minutes and bake them for 25 while you get the rest of dinner ready.
So many good side dishes are carb heavy; am I right? I love when there’s a great side dish that comes along that is veggie heavy instead. Hello Broccoli Bacon Salad! Raw broccoli, delicious bacon, and a sweet, creamy dressing are the staple flavors of this perfect summer side salad. I even throw in some sunflower seeds and raisins for added texture. If this doesn’t scream barbecue side I don’t know what does.
Mediterranean Cucumber Salad brings freshness to dinner. Raw vegetables plus a light vinaigrette dressing; how could you go wrong? Cucumber Salad is so popular in other parts of the world that it even goes by it’s own name – Shirazi Salad. Shirazi salad is a Persian dish. It’s a traditional Mediterranean salad featuring cucumber, tomato and herbs.
Hasselback Potatoes are prettier and yummier than your average potato. They are a style in which the potato is left intact and baked whole but sliced into a fan on top. The slices are drizzled with butter and seasonings and then the potato is baked, creating a slightly crispy exterior to each and every slice. It can almost be compared to homefries meet baked potato but way easier to make than you would think.
A barbecue cookout is not complete without a great pasta salad. Grilled meat and pasta salad go together like spaghetti and meatballs – am I right? Everyone needs a great pasta salad recipe and this BLT Pasta Salad recipe is going to be your summertime dinner best friend.
Italian Couscous Salad is fluffy couscous mixed with raw vegetables and a light Italian herb dressing that is served room temperature or even cold. It’s healthy, filling and incredibly flavorful. The best part for me? The surprise of sweetness when you get a bite with a golden raisin.
These easy smashed potatoes are crispy golden little bites and can be topped with any of your favorite potato toppings. And because they’re smashed flat and re-baked the toppings not only bake on perfectly but even tend to stay in place when you bite into them.
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