re: Easy, but good dinner recipes.

Last Monday, I cooked a Greek seasoned tri-tip, fajita seasoned chicken and 2 lemon dill pork tenderloins. The chicken ended up in a casserole with onion/bell pepper, rice and enchilada sauce and topped with cheese. The pork will go with steamed broccoli tonight, and the tri tip was eaten throughout last week.

Crock pot roast and chicken, shredded for meals for the week.

Roasted cabbage steaks are easy and very filling, especially with the above shredded meat or taco meat.

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Just saw a tik tok on these and am really excited to try this out. They added the au jus gravy packet and I think even a ranch for some reason?

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This sounds like Mississippi Roast instead of Italian Beef.

ETA: And you really need Marconi Hot Giardiniera as a condiment for the sandwich……

One of our quick and easy meals is pork chop and either rice or noodles.

We buy pork chops when they are on sale. I cut them into serving size pieces.... some a little larger for 2 people and freeze them in sandwich baggies.

To "cook" the meal, I zap a pork chop in the micro to thaw it. I also cook either some rice or noodles. Or we sometimes have left overs in the fridge.
I then cook the pork chop in a skillet on high heat with extra butter. I season with Tony's, garlic powder and salt. When the pork chop is almost done, I add the rice or noodles and a little water. Stir often. The butter will start to turn the rice/noodles a little brown. Turn off the burner and stir a little more before serving.

Note: Adding left over veggies is good also.

This same type meal can be done with chicken or any other meat.

I do A 4 ingredient tomato sauce pasta from Marcella Hazan’s classic cool. Book

Crush a can of San marzano tomato’s in a pot with 1 onion cut in half, 5 tablespoons of butter and salt. Reduce down. Remove the onion and add pasta.

It’s amazing super easy.

hamburger meat and carrots. May not be the fastest meal you'll ever cook, but its certainly worth the effort.

CN

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hamburger meat and carrots.

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While I love this recipe, it AINT quick FWIW. It is easy though

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it AINT quick FWIW

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didn't claim it to be. Just said it was worth the effort.

Baked Barbecue Meatballs

Take a bunch of frozen Italian style meatballs ( I use ones from Costco) and place in a casserole dish. Squirt a sweet barbecue sauce like Sweet Baby Ray’s all over top, cover, and bake at 350 for 30 - 45 min. Serve with parsleyed potatoes, and sweet peas or steamed broccoli. Alternatively, make your own meatballs and do the same.


Smoked Sausage & Potatoes Skillet.

Slice and brown smoked sausage in a big skillet. Remove and reserve sausage. Sauté diced onions, bell pepper, celery, and garlic in the sausage fat. To the skillet of sautéed veg, add large diced/chunked potatoes that have been parboiled until almost tender. Add the sausage back to the skillet, along with a little chicken stock, let it simmer till potatoes are at desired tenderness, with some browned edges.


Sausage or Meatloaf Sauce Piquant

My husband’s choice for using leftover meatloaf is to chunk it up and throw it in a pot with a jar of Benoit’s Sauce Piquant and let it simmer for awhile. He serves it over rice. He’ll do the same with leftover (or freshly cooked) smoked sausage.


When I make rice dressing or eggplant dressing, I will freeze portions of the cooked dressing mixture (sans rice) in 8 oz containers. When my husband and I are eating different dinners (which happens often because he doesn’t eat low carb), he’ll pull out a dressing mix from the freezer, cook some rice, and have that as a side or entree for his meal.

My Instant Pot doubles as a slow cooker, and I use it often.

Beef and broccoli is easy and delicious, as is pulled pork for sandwiches, or chicken soft tacos.

Egg Roll in a Bowl is a super simple, quick skillet dish packed with veggies, and you can add whatever you want to suit your tastes.

Beef & Broccoli

Egg Roll in a Bowl

I add water chestnuts and mushrooms to both of these.