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Home | Recipes | Weeknight Winners® | Page 16

Weeknight Winners®

These recipes aren’t all 30-or-fewer-minute meals, although many of them take no time at all. But these are all recipes that REAL home cooks make with REAL ingredients. None of those dump ‘n stir ditties that use 90% packaged ingredients with unpronounceable ingredients. They’re just as quick but infinitely more satisfying.

A metal skillet filled with easy skillet lasagna and garnished with basil leaves.
A muffin tin filled with cooked Thanksgiving leftovers muffins.

Thanksgiving Leftovers Muffins

1 hr

Three leftovers turnovers on a parchment-lined small rimmed baking sheet.

Thanksgiving Leftovers Turnovers

40 mins

A bowl of pork, avocado, and hominy in a red broth on a cutting board with tortilla chips.

Slow Cooker Pork Posole

4 hrs 40 mins

A pepper and egg sandwich on a crusty baguette bun, cut into three pieces.

Pepper and Egg Sandwich

30 mins

Four pieces of classic chicken piccata topped with parsley and capers on a white oval serving plate.

Classic Chicken Piccata

45 mins

A large coil of Italian sausage and broccoli rabe in an oval skillet.

Italian Sausage and Broccoli Rabe

45 mins

A white bowl filled with carrot ginger soup, with a spoon resting inside and a plate of carrots beside it.

Gwyneth Paltrow’s Carrot Ginger Soup

55 mins

A skillet of eggs with chorizo and eggplant, tomato, zucchini, onion, and peppers.

Skillet Eggs with Chorizo and Vegetables

45 mins

A wok filled with stir-fried spinach with miso and ginger and a colander with fresh spinach beside the wok.

Easy Sauteed Spinach with Miso & Ginger

15 mins

A cheesy baked spaghetti casserole in a cast-iron skillet.

Cheesy Baked Spaghetti

1 hr

An omelet with chanterelles in a metal skillet with two chanterelle mushrooms lying beside the skillet.

Omelet with Chanterelles

20 mins

Vietnamese Beef and Rice Noodle Salad

Vietnamese Beef and Rice Noodle Salad

1 hr 15 mins

A metal platter holding five grilled portobello mushrooms, topped with garlic rosemary butter.

Grilled Portobello Mushrooms

30 mins

Two slices of French toast, fried until golden and drizzled with maple syrup.

French Toast ~ Pain Perdu

30 mins

Two bourbon sloppy joes on sesame buns, topped with shredded Cheddar cheese, and pickled red onion.

Bourbon Sloppy Joes

1 hr 15 mins

A metal sheet pan covered with 8 golden and crisp chicken thighs.

Oven Roasted Chicken Thighs

45 mins

Four adobo marinated pork chops and several lime halves, some squeezed, on a wooden chopping block.

Adobo Marinated Pork Chops

1 hr 30 mins

A lobster roll in a cardboard sleeve with a little lettuce and a lemon wedge in the background.

Lobster Roll

35 mins

Several halves of tomato Provençal on a parchment-lined rimmed baking sheet.

Tomatoes Provençal

40 mins

A small bowl of lemon wedges and two white bowls of deep purple summer borscht with a dollop or sour cream and sprinkling of chives in each.

Summer Borscht

1 hr 10 mins

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