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Home | Recipes | Weeknight Winners® | Page 28

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.
Two ground chicken meatballs on slider buns with a toothpick skewered through them.

Ground Chicken Meatballs

45 mins

A piece of miso cod in a skillet with an orange napkin next to it.

Miso Cod

1 d 25 mins

Two people reaching for traditional molletes on a platter with a bowl of salsa in the middle.

Traditional Molletes

15 mins

A person assembling a slow cooker barbacoa taco with a pot of shredded barbacoa meat, a small dish of onions, a bottle of hot sauce, and some cilantro around the taco plate.

Slow Cooker Barbacoa Tacos

8 hrs 15 mins

Sage brown butter with a crispy sage leaf in a small glass.

Sage Brown Butter

5 mins

A vension burger with cheese, pickles, and arugula on a wooden board.

Venison Burgers

20 mins

Two bowls of pureed celery root soup topped with cubes of caramelized apple.

Celery Root Soup with Caramelized Apples

50 mins

A cast-iron skillet filled with roasted grilled potatoes and two sprigs of rosemary on a wooden table.

Roasted Potatoes on the Grill

40 mins

A whole herb stuffed baked salmon filled with bread crumbs and herbs and tied with kitchen twine.

Herb-Stuffed Baked Salmon

1 hr

A decorative bowl filled with a sphere of goat cheese and a few olives, topped with a thyme sprig.

Goat Cheese with Olives, Lemon, and Thyme

25 mins

Two barbecue pork burgers with slaw and barbecue sauce stacked on top of each other.

Barbecue Pork Burgers

30 mins

A bowl of five spice chicken wings.

Five-Spice Chicken Wings

40 mins

Two skewers of grilled shrimp with piri-piri sauce in a dish on the side.

Grilled Shrimp with Piri-Piri Sauce

3 hrs

A white enamel pot with a blue rim with spaghetti, chili flakes, and oil in the bottom. A set of wooden tongs sits inside.

Spaghetti with Garlic and Chile Flakes

15 mins

A white bowl filled with lemon and thyme risotto and topped with a sprig of thyme and some lemon zest

Lemon and Thyme Risotto

30 mins

Cast iron skillet with a pan boxty(Irish potato pancake) in it, on a wooden cutting board

Pan Boxty ~ Irish Potato Pancakes

1 hr

Black pottery bowl filled with the Chinese dish gung bao chicken

Gung Bao Chicken

35 mins

Cast iron skillet of broccolini and potato frittata, with a wedge on a metal spatula

Broccolini and Potato Frittata

35 mins

Garlic mashed potatoes with melted butter and black pepper inside a copper pot, resting on a kitchen towel.

Garlic Mashed Potatoes

30 mins

Pot filled with pastina with butter and milk and a wooden spoon all on a towel.

Pastina with Butter and Milk

20 mins

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