Easy Weeknight Dinners and Meal Prep Recipes

Real food for real life. Easy recipes for weeknight dinners, meal prep, and everything in between.

Easy Brown Sugar Ham Glaze for Spiral Ham

This ham glaze is brown sugar, honey, Dijon mustard and orange juice, simmered for a few minutes in a small saucepan. Brush it on a fully cooked spiral ham at the end of baking and it turns into a sticky, browned crust that runs down between the slices. The ham itself only needs heating through,…
Easy Prime Rib Roast Recipe in the Oven

This prime rib roast recipe uses a bone-in roast, a stick of garlic herb butter and two oven temperatures. The roast goes into a hot oven for 20 minutes to brown the outside, then the heat drops and it cooks slowly until a thermometer tells you to take it out. There’s no searing in a…
Easy Homemade Cranberry Sauce

This homemade cranberry sauce is fresh cranberries simmered with sugar, orange juice and water until most of the berries burst. It cooks in one saucepan in about 15 minutes, and the orange keeps it bright instead of just sweet. It’s best made ahead. The sauce sets as it chills and keeps for a week in…
Creamy Garlic Mashed Potatoes

These garlic mashed potatoes start with Yukon Gold potatoes and a small pan of butter and milk with whole garlic cloves cooking in it. The cloves go soft and mild, then get mashed straight into the potatoes, so the garlic runs through the whole pot without the sharp bite of raw garlic. They take about…
Easy Crockpot Mac and Cheese Recipe

This crockpot mac and cheese recipe puts dry pasta, milk and cheese straight into the slow cooker. There is no pot of water to boil and no colander to wash, and the result is a creamy, scoopable mac and cheese that holds well on a buffet. On Thanksgiving it is a real help: the oven…
Easy Sweet Potato Casserole with Marshmallows

Sweet potato casserole with a toasted marshmallow top is a Thanksgiving classic that can easily turn out too sweet. This version keeps the base creamy and lightly spiced, with a moderate amount of brown sugar, so the sweet potatoes still taste like sweet potatoes. It needs one pot, one baking dish and simple pantry ingredients,…