Family Favorites
While we enjoy all the recipes we post on our site, this page highlights our favorites. Whether they’re classics, quick and easy, or crowd pleasers, these are the ones we find ourselves making again and again. We hope some of them become your favorites too.
Breads
- Bacon corn muffins
- Beer bread
- Date nut spice bread
- Homemade pizza
- Honey buttermilk cornbread
- Irish soda bread
- Parmesan garlic bread
- Savory ham and cheese muffins
Cakes, Cookies, Fruit and Other Desserts
- Almond and candied bacon bark
- Apple and cranberry oat crumble
- Apple crisp
- Baileys cream pots
- Banana, cherry and white chocolate cupcakes
- Banana walnut muffins
- Beatty’s chocolate cake
- Blueberries in gin syrup
- Buttermilk birthday cake with chocolate sour cream frosting
- Chocolate zucchini cake
- Devil’s food cupcakes with vanilla buttercream frosting
- Easy peach cobbler
- Eton mess
- Gâteau au Chocolat Fondant de Nathalie (a.k.a. chocolate mousse cake)
- Guinness gingerbread
- Honey spiced madeleines
- Icebox cake
- Lemon blueberry buckle
- Lemon yogurt cake
- Maple pecan pie squares
- Maple yogurt pound cake
- New York Times chocolate chip cookies or Nieman Marcus chocolate chip cookies
- Oatmeal chocolate chip cookies
- Peach and blueberry sour cream cobbler
- Roasted peaches stuffed with amaretti
- Strawberry mascarpone tart
Meat
- Avoca’s shepherd’s pie
- Beef and bean tostadas
- Beef tenderloin with three-herb chimichurri
- Beer brats
- Cherry tomato and sausage bake
- Cider-brined pork chops with apples and creamed leeks
- Coca-Cola ham
- Italian beef sandwiches
- Maple chicken and ribs
- Mark Bittman’s basic meatloaf
- Moussaka with low-fat white sauce
- Oven-roasted ratatouille with (or without) sausages
- Oven-roasted sausage and sweet potato
- Roast loin of pork with fennel
- Pork chops with roasted potatoes and blue cheese dressing
- Sloppy Joes
- Slow cooker barbacoa beef
- Slow cooker braised BBQ beef
- Slow cooker cassoulet
- Slow cooker stracoto (Italian pot roast)
- Slow cooker stroganoff
- Steak fajitas
- Swedish meatballs
- The Barefoot Contessa’s turkey meatloaf
- Turkey burgers with an easy smoky mayo
Pasta, Noodles, Risotto and Gnocchi
- Bacon, leek and Camembert risotto
- Baked ziti
- Butternut squash lasagna
- Easy pasta supper with Marcella Hazan’s tomato sauce
- Fettuccine alfredo with shrimp and peas
- Gnocchi with blue cheese and walnut sauce
- Gnocchi with peas, pancetta and lemon ricotta
- Gnocchi with tomatoes, spinach and ricotta
- Ham and cheese risotto
- Lemon and pea risotto
- Lemon fusilli
- Oven-baked sausage and tomato risotto
- Pad Thai
- Pasta with bacon, peas and cream
- Pasta with chickpeas (pasta e ceci)
- Pasta with pancetta, peppers and parsley
- Penne alla vodka
- Penne with chorizo and spinach
- Penne with prawns, cream and tomato
- Pesto Trapanese
- Polpette di melanzane (eggplant ‘meatballs’) with spaghetti and tomato sauce
- Spaghetti carbonara
- Spaghetti with fresh tomato sauce
Poultry
- Balsamic roast chicken with rocket, roast tomatoes and Parmesan
- Beer can chicken
- Buttermilk roast chicken
- Catalina chicken
- Chicken and chorizo hash
- Chicken and noodles baked in cream sauce
- Chicken bouillabaisse
- Chicken burgers with lemongrass and lime
- Chicken cacciatore
- Chicken piccata
- Chicken, sausage and apple casserole
- Coq au vin
- Maple chicken and ribs
- Moroccan chicken tagine
- Parmesan chicken fingers
- Piri piri chicken
- Pot-roasted French tarragon chicken (poulet à l’estragon)
- Red chile chicken and rice with black beans
- Slow cooker buttered chicken and tomato curry
- Slow roast chicken with vermouth
- Sour cream chicken enchiladas
- Spanish chicken with chorizo and potatoes
- Tzatziki chicken
- White chicken chili
Salads
- Cape Cod chopped salad
- Creamy lemon and herb potato salad
- Cucumber salad
- German potato salad
- Lentil-rice salad with chorizo
- Ravioli and tomato salad
- Rosanne Cash’s potato salad
- Smoky lemon chicken salad with roasted peppers and avocado
- Spicy slaw
- Sweet potato and black bean salad
- Vietnamese chicken and mint salad
- White bean and tuna salad
- White bean, salami and spinach salad
Seafood
- Cajun mackerel
- Caramel salmon
- Easy sole meunière
- Fish pie
- Fish tacos with mango radish salsa
- Gratin of fish with cheese, tomatoes and herbs
- Mussels, leek and bacon chowder
- Pasta shells with lemon, tuna and artichokes
- Pasta with tuna, tomatoes and olives
- Spaghetti with Pinot Grigio and seafood
Soups and Stews
- Bacon and butterbean chowder
- Beef and Guinness stew
- Beef, chorizo and ale stew
- Cheddar corn chowder
- Chicken soup
- Chickpea, sweet potato and chorizo stew
- Cauliflower cheese soup
- Early autumn minestrone
- Italian wedding soup
- Mussels, leek and bacon chowder
- Roasted garlic and pea soup
- Roasted potato leek soup
- Sweet potato, rutabaga and bacon soup
- White chicken chili
Vegetarian Main Dishes
- Black bean, eggplant and leek chili
- Butternut squash lasagna (omit the sausage)
- Chard tacos
- Chili bean burritos with corn salsa
- Gnocchi with tomato, spinach and ricotta
- Layered tortilla-tomato casserole
- Oven-roasted ratatouille
- Polpette di melanzane (eggplant ‘meatballs’) with spaghetti and tomato sauce
- Pumpkin, feta and cilantro quesadillas
- Quinoa with Moroccan winter squash and carrot stew
- Sour cream and chive potato cakes
- Sweetcorn fritters with tomato salsa
- Tomato and goat’s cheese tart
- Vegetarian chili
- Vegetarian udon soup
- Zucchini fritters with feta and dill
Vegetable Side Dishes
- Buttered leeks
- Buttermilk mashed potatoes
- French string beans
- Green beans with lemon juice, sea salt and olive oil
- Herbed new potatoes
- Lemon roast potatoes
- Maple-glazed carrots
- Mashed potatoes with crème fraîche or sour cream
- Parmesan smashed potatoes
- Roasted asparagus (or roasted Parmesan asparagus)
- Roasted beets
- Roasted broccoli
- Roasted Brussels sprouts
- Roasted butternut squash
- Roasted parsnips and carrots
- Roasted potatoes with blue cheese dressing
- Roasted sweet potatoes with maple jalapeno sour cream
- Roasted winter vegetables
- Sauteed cabbage
- Sauteed carrots
- Sauteed fennel
- Sweet potato wedges
- Sweet potato puree
- Sweet potatoes with feta, lemon and chili
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