This Smoked Salmon Puff Pastry Appetizer with Dill is made with bite-size rounds of flaky puff pastry topped with whipped dill cream cheese, a curl of smoked salmon, and a sprig of fresh dill. The pastry bakes up golden and crisp, and the cool, creamy topping goes on right before serving. These bites are made…
These Crispy Chicken Cutlets are made with thin chicken breast cutlets coated in flour, egg, and a seasoned breadcrumb and Parmesan crust with parsley and garlic, then pan-fried until golden. They’re crunchy outside, juicy inside, and cook in under 10 minutes. Chicken cutlets are a great weeknight dinner, a meal-prep protein, or the base for…
Learn how to make homemade pasta dough from scratch with just flour and eggs. This beginner’s guide covers the basic recipe, kneading, rolling, 9 easy pasta shapes, flavored doughs, and how to store, dry and freeze fresh pasta. Homemade pasta dough only needs two ingredients, flour and eggs, and it tastes completely different from the…
Fried rice is one of those dinners that comes together fast and works with whatever you already have in the fridge. These easy fried rice recipes include chicken, beef, shrimp, vegetables, eggs, and simple sauces for quick meals that taste even better than takeout. Most of these fried rice recipes for dinner are great for…
Looking for cranberry appetizers for your holiday party? Here are 30 festive cranberry bites, from cranberry brie bites and cheese balls to dips, sliders and sweet treats, all easy to make ahead. Nothing says holiday party like a table full of ruby red cranberry appetizers. They’re sweet, tart and pair perfectly with creamy cheeses and…
Want a filling pasta salad without meat? These high protein vegetarian pasta salads get 20 to 28 grams of protein per serving from beans, lentils, eggs, cheese, tofu and edamame. You don’t need chicken or meat to make pasta salad a real meal. Beans, lentils, eggs, cheese and tofu all add plenty of protein, and…
These Cottage Cheese Donut Balls with Raspberries are baked, not fried, made with blended cottage cheese for a soft, protein-packed crumb, with a small raspberry tucked into the center of each one. Rolled in cinnamon sugar right out of the oven, they taste a lot closer to a bakery donut hole than you’d expect from…
This sloppy joe recipe is made with ground beef, onion, green bell pepper, and garlic simmered in a sauce of ketchup, yellow mustard, brown sugar, and Worcestershire sauce, then piled onto toasted buns. It’s sweet, tangy, and savory all at once, and it’s ready in about 25 minutes. It’s a weeknight dinner the whole family…
These canned tuna and potato patties are made with mashed potatoes, flaked tuna, egg, green onion, parsley, and a little parmesan, coated in breadcrumbs and cooked until crisp and golden. The potato keeps them soft and creamy inside, and they cost next to nothing to make. They’re a great budget dinner, a way to use…
These salmon patties are made with canned or cooked salmon, breadcrumbs, egg, mayo, Dijon, green onion, and fresh dill, shaped into cakes and cooked until golden and crisp outside. They stay moist inside and you can make them three ways: air fryer, oven baked, or pan fried. They’re an easy weeknight dinner, a good high-protein…