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Juicy Lemon Chicken Thighs

These lemon chicken thighs are juicy, flavorful, and super easy! You will love the spice rub made with lemon, oregano, thyme, garlic, and mustard. We prefer bone-in, skin-on thighs for the best flavor, but chicken breasts or drumsticks work, too. For skinless chicken, add a bit of extra oil.

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Quick and Easy Pasta Salad

This easy pasta salad recipe is flexible based on the ingredients you have in your kitchen or the season. Start with a hearty pasta shape with nooks and crannies to hold onto the dressing like rotini or penne. Then toss with our simple dressing and lots of colorful vegetables. We also love adding a handful of fresh mozzarella balls and parmesan cheese, which melts into the dressing. For more suggestions for what to add, read through our recommendations in the article above.

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Spicy Shredded Chicken Sandwiches

The popular Vietnamese sandwich, the bánh mì, loosely inspires these spicy shredded chicken sandwiches! We love starting with a baguette that’s nice and soft inside. Before building your sandwich, remove a little bread to fit more chicken! For the chicken, use leftovers or rotisserie chicken. If you want to make shredded chicken for these sandwiches, I love this easy shredded chicken recipe.

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Juicy Meatballs

This is our essential meatball recipe. It’s quick to make, calls on ingredients we always have, and makes delicious, juicy, tender, and flavorful meatballs. The recipe calls for one pound of ground meat. The meat you choose is up to you. We especially love using a combination of ground pork and ground turkey.

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Easy Creamy Mac and Cheese

This is our quick and easy homemade macaroni and cheese recipe. It’s extra saucy and very creamy. It’s made on the stovetop and does not require any baking. That’s not to say that you could not bake it. We’ve shared how in the recipe below. Cream cheese is optional but adds tanginess and even more creaminess to the sauce. *In the video, we add the cream cheese after the cheddar, but since sharing and testing again, we now prefer to the cream cheese before the cheddar. Also, we use more butter, flour, and milk. Since posting that video, we received feedback that there was too much sauce, and after testing it ourselves, we agreed, so we’ve adjusted the recipe below. The method is the same, so you can still use the video as a guide!

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Easy Green Chicken Enchiladas

These salsa verde chicken enchiladas are easy and incredibly delicious. You can use store-bought green chile enchilada sauce or salsa verde for this recipe. I like the options from Hatch, Las Palmas, and Frontera. Or, to make it from scratch, try this homemade salsa verde made with tomatillos, green chile peppers, and garlic (it’s amazing).

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Chicken Pesto Quesadillas

My family loves these easy pesto chicken quesadillas. I know pesto chicken sounds strange to put pesto into a quesadilla, but trust me, it works! Use your favorite store-bought pesto or make your own. Here’s our homemade pesto recipe!

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Juicy Oven Pulled Pork

You’ll love this easy pulled pork spiced with a simple rub, garlic, tomato paste, and apple cider vinegar. It turns out perfectly seasoned, melt-in-your-mouth tender, and is excellent served in sandwiches, wraps, tacos, and salads.

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Easy Baked Wonton Cups

These baked wonton cups are the perfect blank canvas for your favorite flavors! To ensure you have enough cups for all your delicious fillings, bake a few extra wonton wrappers. Some may close up during baking, so it’s always good to have a few spares.

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Perfect Shredded Beef Tacos

The secret to the best shredded beef is to cook it low and slow. We use our oven, but you can use a slow cooker. Check the notes section in the recipe below for my tips on cooking the beef in your slow cooker. I love serving this super tender beef in tortillas for shredded beef tacos, but you can skip the tortillas and serve with rice, in burritos, or over salad.

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Easy Mulled Cider

I love this easy mulled cider recipe. It’s equally delicious with and without the optional alcohol. A stovetop is the quickest method, but if you are entertaining, you may want to look at the slow cooker method in the tips below.

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Easy Chipotle Bean Chili

This vegetarian bean chili is super flexible! You can use either dried or canned beans (see tips below for using canned beans). This recipe is written for cooking with dried beans on the stovetop, but you can easily make it in a slow cooker, too (see below for slow cooker instructions)! We use chipotle peppers in adobo sauce for a delicious smoky heat. You can find small cans of these in the international aisle of most grocery stores. Two peppers make a mild-to-medium chili. Add one or two more peppers for a spicier chili, or use some of the adobo sauce from the can.

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Perfect Apple Butter

This slow cooker apple butter recipe is easy and delicious! Perfectly sweet, lightly spiced, and with a rich and concentrated apple flavor, it’s so much better than store-bought. The hard cider in this recipe makes slightly thinner apple butter. We love the flavor it adds and especially love the slight bitterness from the hard cider. If you find that your apple butter is too thin after cooking for our recommended times, don’t worry; we have provided tips in the recipe and tips section below.

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Goat Cheese Chicken Meatballs

I didn’t think meatballs could get better, but that was until we added creamy goat cheese to the middle of one! These easy baked chicken meatballs come together quickly. When choosing the cheese, goat cheese is an excellent option, but other cheeses will work well. Consider feta, cheddar or mozzarella. If you use a melty cheese (like cheddar or mozzarella), you might want to consider stuffing the cheese into the middle of the meatball and covering it completely with meatball mixture.

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Creamy Cheesy Bean Dip

Perfect for parties, watching the game and family gatherings, this easy bean dip comes together in no time. Start with canned refried beans or use homemade refried beans to make it. If you follow our recipe for refried beans, you may want to reduce the amount of cumin since we already call for cumin in the refried beans recipe.

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Seriously Good Guinness Beef Stew

This is an unbelievably delicious Guinness beef stew with melt-in-your-mouth tender beef, carrots, and potatoes. If you don’t have Guinness on hand, use your favorite dark beer, dry red wine, or coffee. As a last resort, use more beef stock.

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