Free Recipe Guide
Here’s where you’ll find all our recipes, as well as those submitted by our readers. Have a recipe you’d like to share? Submit it, and if approved, it’ll appear here (with full credit given, of course).
Beef:
- Homemade meatballs
- Spooky shape sandwiches
- Ropa vieja (Cuban beef stew)
- Shepherd’s pie
- Korean braised short ribs
- Lo mein with beef
- Corned beef hash
- Baked corned beef
- Grilled skirt steak and pepper sandwiches with corn mayo
- Garlic prime rib
- Bacon-Swiss burger with tomato and avocado
- Grilled steak with whiskey butter
Bread:
Cakes, cupcakes, and muffins
- Key lime cake with cream cheese frosting
- Raspberry muffins
- Chocolate chip muffins
- Banana muffins
- Lemon cake
- Strawberry shortcake
- Mile-high chocolate cake
- Fresh coconut cake
- Mascarpone cheesecake with rhubarb glaze and chocolate-covered strawberries
Dips and sauces
- Crab and celery remoulade
- Guacamole with fresh corn and chipotle
- Blue cheese and caramelized shallot dip
- Roasted garlic herb dip
- Smoky chipotle hummus
- Easy seven layer taco dip
- Baba ghanouj
- Cheese fondue
- Seafood dip
- How to make salsa
- Broccol cheddar dip
- The Works pizza bread
- Double tomato bruschette
- Avocado corn salsa
Drinks:
- Spiced punch (non-alcoholic)
- Candy Cane-tini (alcoholic)
- Mai Tai (alcoholic)
- Blue Hawaii (alcoholic)
- Cool blue martini
- Irish coffee
- St. Patrick’s Day punch
- Orange mint slush
- Frosty float
- Frosty capuccino
- Citrus cooler
- Tangerine cooler
- Lemonade spritzer
- Lavender lemonade
- Sangria with a twist
- Watermelon margarita
Fish:
- Poached salmon
- Baked shrimp in tomato feta sauce
- Fish tacos
- Steamed sea bass, Cantonese style
- Crawfish etouffee
- Grilled clams with lemon-ginger butter and grilled baguette
- Crab cakes
- Honey-soy broiled salmon
- Broiled shrimp appetizer
- Grilled salmon with lime butter sauce
Halloween desserts:
- Ghoulish hand punch
- Ghostly graveyard/mini graveyard pudding cups
- Tasty wigglers
- Ghost cups
- Creepy crawly gelatin
Other desserts:
- Pumpkin custards
- Poached pears
- Individual chocolate souffles
- Homemade chocolate pudding
- Sugar on snow
- Coconut flan
- Sesame balls with drunken fig filling
- Chocolate kumquat spring rolls
- Chinese delight
- Caramelized pineapple turnovers
- Caramelized fruit custards
- Buttermilk beignets
- Grilled pound cake with mango and pineapple
- Grilled fruit skewers with spicy maple cumin glaze
- Chocolate truffles
- Lemon verbena and summer fruit gelee
- Neapolitan ice cream squares
- Tartufo
- Chocolate lemon ice cream pie
- Marble pops
- Rocky road ice cream sandwiches
- Chocolate-chocolate chip cookies
- Strawberry cream puffs with strawberry sauce
Pasta:
Pies:
Poultry and pork:
- Spanish chicken
- Mini crescent roll sandwiches
- Roast turkey
- Chicken pot pie
- Sticky sesame chicken wings
- Broiled chicken wimgs with spicy aprictot sauce
- Barbecue chicken wings
- Five spice chicken wings
- Balsamic soy-glazed chicken wings
- Chili chicken wings
- Grilled chicken drummettes with ancho-cherry barbecue sauce
- Spring rolls
- Quickie chicken curry
- Poached chicken with ginger and scallion sauce
- African chicken in spicy red sauce
- Grilled turkey burgers with cheddar and smoky aiolo
- Coq au vin
- Grilled chicken with lemon, garlic, and oregano
- Southern fried chicken
Salads:
- Crisp winter lettuces with warm sweet-and-sharp dressing
- Caesar’s salad with homemade croutons and balsamic dressing
- Waldorf salad
- All-American potato salad
- Lobster salad with lemon vinaigrette
- Shrimp salad-stuffed tomatoes
- Chicken, charred tomato, and broccoli salad
- Chicken salad with cucumber, red pepper, and honey-mustard vinaigrette
- Chopped salad
- Rainbow slaw
- Potato salad with fresh herbs and lemon
- Watermelon and cucumber mint tsatsiki salad
- Green salad with oil and vinegar
- Big green salad
- Mexican chopped salad with honey-lime dressing
- Santa Fe chicken salad
- Easy rice salad
- Cilantro bean salad
- Tomato and pepper slaw
Sandwiches:
Snacks:
- Snack mix
- Stuffed mushrooms
- Phyllo onion rolls
- Pumpkin wontons
- Tapenade tartlets
- Garlic and cheese crostini
Soups, chilis, stews:
- Brunswick stew
- Eula Mae’s chicken and ham jambalaya
- Sweet potato soup
- Hot and sour mushroom soup
- Sophisticated tomato soup
- Black Bean Chili with Crispy Pork and Poblano Salsa
- Ding dong four alarm chili
- Beef and dark beer chili
- Chicken and white bean chili
- Turkey chili
- Chicken and white bean chili #2
- Chicken chili
- Green chili with pork
- Curried butternut squash soup
- Easy split pea soup
- Italian escarole soup
- Fresh pea soup
- Hearty vegetarian beef stew
- Quick beef chili
- Spicy red pork and bean chili
- Bean free chili
- Smoked sausage jambalaya
- Gazpacho
- Chilled corn chowder
- Fresh tomato soup
Vegetarian:
- How to make sauerkraut
- Mashed potatoes
- Mashed sweet potatoes with sage butter
- Green beans with orange and rosemary gremolata
- Wild mushrooms with chestnuts and thyme
- Twice-cooked french fries
- Roasted winter root vegetables
- Oven-roasted carrots and parsnips with rosemary
- Homemade baked beans
- Spinach with bamboo shoots
- Killer artichokes
- Amhari Mesir Wat
- Asparagus quiche
- Grilled tomato and cheese stacks
- Grilled portobello parmesan
- Oven sweet potato fries
- Roasted garlic mashed potatoes
- Potato pancakes
- Grilled pitas with tomatoes, olives, and feta
- Grilled tomatoes with basil vinaigrette
- Homemade corn fritters
- Grilled corn
- Fried zucchini
- Tomatoes and zucchini with cheese
- Zucchini tomato stir fry
Search
- Michelle Burgess: Hi, interesting way to look at meal planning. To further add, its also efficient as you don't end up throwing half the food you buy out.
- admin: I'm glad this article will help :) I know that this is a struggle for most families (even ours, most nights) but I wanted to write this as a sort of "
- Bonedaddy King: These are excellent suggestions! I'm glad you included No. 2 because we've done that with great success in the past, but as often happens, we tend to