Category Dinner

Baked Ziti

I made this the first time on a night I did not want to stand over a stove. Lasagna wants you to layer noodle, sauce, cheese, repeat, and by the…

Garlic Butter Steak Bites & Potatoes

I make garlic butter steak bites and potatoes on the nights I want steak-and-potatoes energy without actually cooking a whole steak. Dice it up, marinate it while the potatoes go…

Crockpot Chicken and Dumplings

That’s the short version of how this crockpot chicken and dumplings recipe ended up on repeat in my kitchen. It’s the kind of dinner that needs almost nothing from you…

French Onion Chicken Skillet

I made this the first cold weekend of the season, mostly because I had three onions sitting on the counter that needed a job. French onion soup was the obvious…

Slow Cooker Beef Tips and Gravy

The first time I made this, I almost skipped the gravy packets because I thought “why not just use cornstarch and call it a day.” Glad I didn’t. There’s something…

Million Dollar Chicken Casserole

I made this on a Tuesday when the only thing in my fridge worth building a dinner around was a rotisserie chicken from the day before. Cream cheese, cottage cheese,…

Slow Cooker Beef Stew

I used to skip the browning step. Dump everything in raw, walk away, come back to soup with gray meat floating in it. Technically edible. Not stew. The sear is…

Crockpot Taco Soup

I made this the first cold week of the season, mostly because I didn’t want to think about dinner and I had a pound of ground beef that needed to…

Cheesy Lasagna Soup

What I can tell you for certain is that this soup came out of not wanting to deal with layering, boiling noodles separately, and waiting an hour for a bake…