Does your family love pasta for dinner? This easy dump and bake meatball casserole is simple to make and tastes fantastic. This meatball dump casserole comes together easily with just 5 ingredients, including frozen meatballs, marinara sauce, and pasta. Easy with minimal prep making it perfect for a weeknight dinner idea! This post first appeared at Savory Experiments where I am a contributor. Do busy weeknights have you pinched for time with cooking dinner? This simple, delicious meatball casserole recipe comes together with just 5 simple ingredients, and your oven does most of the work. If you love a simple baked pasta recipe, this easy meatball casserole is for you. Topped with mozzarella cheese, and made with store-bought frozen meatballs, marinara sauce and penne pasta, … [Read more...]
Cheeseburger Macaroni
Are you looking for a homemade cheeseburger macaroni recipe? This delicious ground beef cheeseburger mac is way better than any store-bought mix. Great for when you need an easy weeknight dinner idea! Do you like the convenience of making hamburger helper or those other store-bought ground beef mixes, but not all the preservatives and sodium that come with it? This easy cheeseburger macaroni recipe tastes even better than those mixes AND is made with real, simple ingredients. Another advantage to making your own cheeseburger mac is that you get more than what you would with a box mix. This recipe is also customizable, so you can add in veggies or use ground turkey or chicken. What do I need to make homemade cheeseburger macaroni? For exact ingredient amounts and full recipe … [Read more...]
Creamy Tuscan Chicken Pasta
Always on the look out for an amazing chicken and pasta recipe? This creamy Tuscan chicken pasta recipe is simple to make and tastes amazing. Made with chicken breasts, sun dried tomatoes, spinach penne pasta in a creamy, savory sauce. The ultimate dinner idea! Wondering what to do with those chicken breasts that are in your fridge right now? This creamy, delicious Tuscan chicken pasta is the answer. Made with simple ingredients that you likely already have in your pantry and fridge, this simple pasta dinner comes together in under 30 minutes, making it the perfect weeknight dinner option! What do I need to make creamy Tuscan chicken pasta? For exact ingredient amounts and full recipe instructions be sure to scroll down to the bottom of the post for the recipe. … [Read more...]
Shrimp Stir Fry with Noodles
Do you love a great shrimp stir fry recipe? This easy shrimp stir fry with noodles and peanut sauce will be your new favorite! Made with simple ingredients, this shrimp stir fry comes together quickly and easily. Does your family love a great lo mein or stir fry noodles with shrimp? This simple shrimp stir fry with noodles is the perfect dinner option for a busy weeknight. Made with some easy vegetable options and frozen shrimp, this shrimp stir fry recipe comes together quickly. This recipe includes an amazing peanut sauce that brings everything together. Here's everything you need to know about how to make shrimp stir fry with noodles. What do I need to make shrimp stir fry with noodles? Here's a quick reference grocery list of everything you'll need to make stir fry … [Read more...]
Healthy Chicken Sausage Pasta
Looking for quick and healthy chicken sausage pasta recipes? This 20 Minute Sausage and Kale Pasta with white beans and roasted red peppers and chickpea pasta is healthy, easy and completely delicious! AMAZING Healthy Sausage and Kale Pasta with White Beans and Roasted Red Peppers I'm almost always working on recipes that are healthy, quick (under 30 minutes) and that use ingredients that are easy to find. This Healthy Chicken Sausage Pasta recipes checks all those boxes. Made with better-for-you chickpea pasta, chicken sausage, white beans, and roasted red peppers, this simple sausage and kale pasta is the perfect healthy dinner option for a weeknight. I've broken down the steps to show how easy this chicken sausage pasta is to make. Let's get right to it! Like this … [Read more...]
One Pot Cheesy Italian Goulash
In need of an easy weeknight dinner idea? This One Pot Cheesy Italian Goulash is the perfect dinner solution! Made with simple ingredients that you likely already have in your pantry, this one skillet ground beef dinner is fantastic for feeding your family any night of the week! This Cheesy Goulash recipe is the perfect weeknight dinner! This One Skillet Italian Goulash has become one of my go-to weeknight dinners. It comes together in about 20 minutes and is always a hit with my guys! It's an easy ground beef dinner that is made in one single skillet (no extra pots of boiling water needed), which makes post-dinner clean-up a cinch. Best of all, it uses simple ingredients that you likely already have in your pantry, your fridge or freezer and on … [Read more...]
Creamy Tomato & Tortellini Soup
This fantastic creamy tomato soup recipe has it all! Delicious tomatoes are simmered together with Parmesan cheese, tender tortellini and topped with fresh basil. This tortellini soup is a fantastic Christmas Eve dish or wonderful anytime you're looking to warm up on a cold night! Creamy Tomato & Tortellini Soup - an amazing creamy tomato soup recipe! In my family, Christmas Eve has just as much celebration and importance as Christmas Day. Some of my fondest memories as a child are of going to my Great-Grandma Elsie's house to celebrate Christmas Eve with my HUGE extended family. There was always enough food to feed double the crew - Christmas cookies and candies, salads, desserts and the dinner was always soup! Soup on Christmas Eve has … [Read more...]
Lobster Mac & Cheese
Comfort food at its best! With a delicious three-cheese sauce, big chunks of fresh lobster, and al dente pasta, this Lobster Mac and Cheese is the perfect dinner any night of the week! We are big pasta eaters at our house! My husband LOVES any type of pasta, and my son is the biggest mac & cheese lover out there! I love pasta as well, so when it comes to dinner ideas, noodles are always at the top of my list! A creamy, delicious three-cheese sauce makes this Lobster Mac & Cheese absolutely incredible! Gruyere, white cheddar and American cheeses melt together wonderfully, and coat the pasta and lobster giving you a creamy, flavorful dish. Over the last several months, lobster has come down in price greatly. You can find it in most … [Read more...]
Mac and Cheese with Ham and Broccoli
This Mac & Cheese with Ham and Broccoli has everything you need for an easy dinner, including smokey ham, fresh broccoli, and pasta all in an amazing cheese sauce! Best of all, this simple pasta dinner is done and on the table in under 30 minutes! Mac and Cheese with Ham and Broccoli Do you have go-to meals that you make for your family time and time again? Tried and true recipes that are easy to make that you know everyone at the table will love? This Mac and Cheese with Ham and Broccoli is one of those meals for our family. Like many kids, my 7-year-old is a HUGE mac & cheese guy, and ham is his preferred meat, so this pasta skillet is one that he loves. My husband and I love pasta and the addition of the smokey, delicious ham is a bonus for … [Read more...]
Garden Vegetable Pasta Salad
A healthy pasta salad recipe that actually tastes good! You'll never believe this pasta salad is light and healthy! Made with a delicious Greek yogurt dressing and loaded with fresh garden vegetables, this pasta salad recipe will be your new favorite summer side dish. Perfect for cookouts, pot-lucks and summer barbecues! We love pasta at our house, especially pasta salad in the warm summer months. It makes for a fantastic side-dish to fried chicken or anything that is coming off the grill, like burgers, brats, steaks, chops and chicken. This healthy pasta salad recipe is a nice alternative to other mayo-heavy macaroni and pasta salads. My Garden Vegetable Pasta Salad is made with a much lighter dressing, using plain Greek yogurt and light sour cream. … [Read more...]
Easy Pesto Pasta with Scallops
Disclosure: I received free Barilla Collezione Regional Specialties Pasta products that were utilized in this post. All opinions are 100% my own. An easy, delicious dinner option for any night of the week! Spaghetti alla Chitarra pasta is paired with pesto sauce, pan seared sea scallops and fresh Parmesan Reggiano cheese for a wonderfully delicious meal! Just over ten years ago, my husband was sent on extended international business travel with his company....to Italy! The assignment was for six months, so it was short enough where I couldn't quit my job in the U.S. to go with him, but long enough to miss him dearly. He was in Avezzano, Italy, which is in the central Abruzzo region east of Rome. While he was there I was able to make a couple trips over to visit, which for … [Read more...]
Loaded Chicken Enchilada Pasta
In all honesty, how hard is it for you to get dinner on the table? If you're anything like me, its probably one of the biggest challenges of the day. Many of you are just getting home from work, or just getting your kids home from school, and once you walk into the kitchen you face that ever daunting question, "What am I going to make for dinner?" A while back, I distinctly remember listening to a radio show, where they had an expert in meal planning talking about the best way to tackle the haunting question of what to make for dinner. I remember her saying that if you find yourself in the middle of the grocery store at 5pm wandering through the aisles trying to find ideas, you've already lost the battle. She then said that having specific, go-to recipes that you and your family … [Read more...]
