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    Dinner Recipes the Whole Family Will Love

    Easy dinner recipes for every night of the week! From quick 15-minute meals, better-than-takeout homemade pizza and pasta dishes to our favorite 30-minute meals and cozy slow braised dishes  that will inspire countless weekend cook-a-thons. These are recipes everyone (even picky eaters) will love. Whether you're craving comfort food, looking for healthier options, or wanting to spend less on eating out, we've got dinner covered. Dive in and make mealtime stress-free and delicious with these restaurant-quality dinner recipes.

    • steamed black Sardinian mussels with bits of sausage and diced tomatoes in a white wine broth in a white bowl top down view
      Steamed Mussels With Sausage and Mushrooms in White Wine Sauce
    • Purple cauliflower steaks perfectly crispy and tender with a crispy sesame seed crust.
      Pan-Seared Purple Cauliflower Sesame Steaks
    • perfectly steamed Mussels Guazetto
      Mussels in Tomato & White Wine Garlic Sauce (Guazzetto di Cozze)
    • Spaghetti alle vongole with veraci clams in All-Clad saute pan, best clam pasta recipe with fresh Italian clams.
      Linguine with Clam Sauce Recipe (Pasta alle Vongole)
    • Green spinach pasta mezzaluna-shaped spinach and ricotta ravioli on a serving platter topped with homemade Italian tomato sauce and freshly grated Parmesan.
      Homemade Spinach and Ricotta Ravioli Filling Recipe
    • Golden broiled shrimp gratin served in a natural scallop shell, bubbly and caramelized on top. A quick and elegant lenten seafood appetizer or dinner.
      10-Minute Italian Shrimp Au Gratin (Gamberi Gratinati)
    • eggplant and zucchine parmigiana with text overlay stating the recipe was a pinterest and Food52 Grand Prize Recipe winner
      Nonna Anna's Eggplant & Zucchini Parmigiana (Food52 & Pinterest Grand Prize Winner)
    • A portioned square of "almost lasagna bolognese" pasta bake with beef ragu, porcini bechamel, mozzarella cheese, and parmigiano-reggiano cheese.
      Beef Lasagna w/Tomato White Wine Sauce and Porcini Béchamel
    • Perfect thick-crust pizza dough with pizza margherita toppings (including homemade pizza sauce, shredded mozzarella, and mini buffalo mozzarella balls.
      Thick-Crust Pizza (Fluffy 00 Flour Pizza Dough Recipe)
    • Pizza dough recipe for a homemade pizza with sausage and onion on a crispy bread flour pizza crust recipe, how to make pizza dough for the best homemade pizza dough.
      Best Bread Flour Pizza Dough Recipe (5 Ingredients)
    • Homemade 00-thin crust pizza with pioppini mushrooms, pepperoni, shallots, mozzarella, buffalo mozzarella, and large green and black olives.
      Best 00 Flour Pizza Dough Recipe (Thin-Crust, 5 Ingredients)
    • Cajun royal red shrimp tossed with spaghetti pasta in a spicy seasoned sauce, showing bright red gulf royal red shrimp over al dente spaghetti. A bold and flavorful lenten seafood pasta dinner.
      Cajun Style Royal Red Shrimp Pasta For One (Or a Crowd)
    • A perfectly boiled lobster tail sitting in a pool of warm clarified butter, showing the bright red and white tender lobster meat. An easy and elegant lenten seafood dinner in just 4 minutes.
      Delicious 4-Minute Lobster Tails (for one or a crowd)
    • A pile of bright red-orange pan-seared sauteed Argentinian Red Shrimp perfectly cooked and tender.
      4-Minute Sauteed Shrimp Recipe (Pan-Seared Garlic Shrimp)
    • A bowl of homemade Italian ventricina and cicerchia bean soup garnished with grated parmesan and scallions and two parmesan crostini.
      Italian Cicerchie Bean & Ventricina Soup (Zuppa di Fagioli Cicerchie)
    • Close-up of homemade cuttlefish ink pasta nests in various shapes on tray, fresh black pasta ready for seafood pasta recipes and nero di seppia dishes.
      Squid Ink Pasta (Homemade Pasta al Nero di Seppia)
    • An All-Clad sauté pan filled with homemade red enchilada sauce with a whisk resting in the pan.
      Red Enchilada Sauce Recipe (Authentic Tex-Mex w/Video)
    • Closeup of a well-hydrated, shiny, deep yellow-colored ball of homemade egg pasta in my great grandmother's bread bowl with a vintage Italian cookbook open to the tortellini recipe page.
      Homemade 00 Flour & Semolina Pasta Dough (Semola Rimacinata)
    • A pasta bowl filled with black squid ink tagliatelle with crab meat sugo and chunks of crab with a hot pepper garnish on top.
      Easy Crab Linguine (Linguine Nero di Seppia al Granchio Blu)
    • Garlic butter shrimp scampi with extra virgin olive oil, grated parmigiano reggiano parmesan and scallions, garlic shrimp scampi recipe.
      Delicious Shrimp Scampi for Two (or a Crowd)
    • Argentinian red shrimp in tomato cream sauce with creamy tomato alfredo for shrimp pasta recipe.
      Shrimp Pasta with Spicy Tomato-Cream Sauce (Tomato-Alfredo)
    • Homemade lobster ravioli and shrimp ravioli in heart and star shapes on a serving platter covered with lobster tomato cream sauce, showing the best sauce for lobster ravioli recipe.
      Lobster Ravioli With Tomato Cream Sauce
    • Authentic Italian pasta ai funghi in a white bowl topped with grated Grana Padano, a traditional mushroom pasta recipe made without cream.
      Authentic Mushroom Pasta ai Funghi (No Cream)
    • Homemade bucatini all'amatriciana made from scratch with fresh homemade bucatini pasta for a truly authentic pasta amatriciana recipe.
      Amatriciana Recipe (Pasta Amatriciana with Guanciale or Pancetta)
    • Sausage and Mushroom Maccheroni Pasta in the pot looking scrumptious and glistening with tomato sauce.
      Easy Sausage and Mushroom Pasta (For Busy Weeknights)
    • Cast iron skillet gnocchi with sage, olive oil, and parmesan cheese with seared caramelized purple onion.
      3-Ingredient Italian Potato Gnocchi Recipe +Video
    • Creamy pumpkin pasta with sausage and kale in a cast iron skillet featuring trottole pasta coated in pumpkin cream sauce, an easy pumpkin pasta sauce recipe.
      Creamy Pumpkin Pasta Sauce with Sausage and Kale
    • a beautifully broiled diver sea scallop in its shell with slightly crispy and golden brown edges and glistening in oil
      Italian Diver Scallops au Gratin (Capesante Gratinate)
    • A large pile of light and crispy beer-battered chicken tenders (chicken fingers copycat recipe of Chili's Chicken Crispers with twice fried french fries on top of the sunday comics newspaper section.
      Crispy Beer Battered Chicken Tenders (Chili's Copycat)
    • Perfect homemade egg noodles for chicken noodle soup resting on a flour-dusted tea towel, freshly cut and ready to cook from scratch.
      Easy Homemade Egg Noodles (For Chicken Noodle Soup & More)
    • Homemade chicken broth with rich golden color in a clear glass pitcher looking nothing like bland storebought chicken broth.
      The Best Chicken Broth Recipe (Italian Brodo di Pollo)
    • Homemade pumpkin pasta dough with lasagna sheets and Atlas Marcato 150 pasta machine next to it with 3 pumpkin pasta dough balls covered in the background.
      Pumpkin Pasta Recipe (Easy Homemade Pasta Dough)
    • St. Louis style thin crust whole wheat pizza cut into squares topped with artichoke hearts, Taggiasche olives, caramelized onions and melted mozzarella cheese - no yeast pizza dough recipe.
      Easy 20-Minute Thin & Crispy St. Louis-Style Whole Wheat Pizza
    • A bowl of traditional tagliatelle pasta with rich Bolognese ragù sauce, garnished with freshly grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese
      Authentic Bolognese Sauce (Ragù alla Bolognese)
    • Traditional homemade lasagna bolognese with eight layers, showcasing rich meat sauce and handmade spinach egg pasta noodles in classic Italian culinary style.
      Authentic Lasagna Bolognese (Lasagne alla Bolognese +Video)
    • A casserole dish filled with cheese enchiladas covered in sauce, melted cheddar cheese, and minced white onions.
      Cheese Enchiladas with Red Enchilada Sauce Recipe (Authentic Tex-Mex + Video)
    • closeup of baked ziti with tomatoes and cheese covered pasta noodles some gooey and some crispy
      Easy Baked Ziti with Beef Ragù (from Scratch)
    • A golden brown turkey pot pie with an extra piece of dough cut into the shape of a turkey baked right in the middle of the pot pie.
      A Better Homemade Turkey Pot Pie (The Ultimate Pot Pie Recipe)
    • A slice of prosciutto cotto and mozzarella lasagna with cheese and tomato sauce oozing out.
      Italian Ham & Mozzarella Lasagna (Lasagna di Prosciutto Cotto e Mozzarella)
    • A tray filled with rows of homemade raw tortellini in the traditional style of Bologna.
      Authentic Italian Tortellini (Tortellini in Brodo)

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    • Extra beefy-tasting Beyond Burger on a homemade sesame and poppy seed potato bun.
      How to Make Extra "Beefy" Beyond® Burgers
    • A bowl of paccheri pasta with shrimp and zucchini in a tomato and white wine sauce.
      Paccheri Pasta With Shrimp and Zucchini Sugo
    • Brithish style fish and chips on a wire rack looking super crispy and golden brown.
      British Style Fish and Chips (Crispiest Fried Fish Ever)
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    Our Favorite Spring Recipes

    • Homemade lobster ravioli and shrimp ravioli in heart and star shapes on a serving platter covered with lobster tomato cream sauce, showing the best sauce for lobster ravioli recipe.
      Lobster Ravioli With Tomato Cream Sauce
    • beautifully golden brown frittata in the cast-iron skillet that's been flipped to show off it's perfectly golden underside
      Asparagus and Zucchini Frittata Recipe (Perfect for Spring)
    • A double layer no-raisin best carrot cake with pecans and matcha cream cheese frosting, piped in kisses and garnished with toasted pistachios.
      Best Carrot Cake Recipe (Super Moist, Made from Scratch)
    • a beautifully broiled diver sea scallop in its shell with slightly crispy and golden brown edges and glistening in oil
      Italian Diver Scallops au Gratin (Capesante Gratinate)
    • A slice of the the best strawberry crostata (aka strawberry jam tart from Italy) on a plate.
      Strawberry Crostata (Italian Crostata di Marmellata di Fragole)
    • A serving platter filled with bright green creamy mashed sweet mushy peas with whole sweet peas for garnish.
      Easy Mushy Peas Recipe

    Make Better Homemade Pizza

    • Collection of 25 homemade pizza varieties including vegetarian options, meat-vegetable combinations, hawaiian, prosciutto-arugula, marinara, margherita, mushroom, various cheese pizzas, olive, breakfast pizza, capricciosa, zucchini and ham, pepperoni, quattro formaggi, BBQ chicken pizza, and more on different kinds of homemade pizza dough including neapolitan, whole wheat, bread flour, 00 flour, St. Louis Style, pizza fritta, and pinsa Romana.
      Best Pizza Toppings & Pizza Dough Ultimate Guide w/Real Photos
    • Pizza dough recipe for a homemade pizza with sausage and onion on a crispy bread flour pizza crust recipe, how to make pizza dough for the best homemade pizza dough.
      Best Bread Flour Pizza Dough Recipe (5 Ingredients)
    • Super crispy sliced whole wheat Supreme pizza with green olives, spicy ventricina salami, salsiccia, prosciutto cotto, mushrooms, red bell peppers, and onions.
      Best Whole Wheat Pizza Dough Recipe (For Thin Crust Pizza)
    • Perfect thick-crust pizza dough with pizza margherita toppings (including homemade pizza sauce, shredded mozzarella, and mini buffalo mozzarella balls.
      Thick-Crust Pizza (Fluffy 00 Flour Pizza Dough Recipe)
    • A platter with three golden brown fried pizzas topped with burrata cheese, mozzarella, prosciutto di parma, olives, and sun dried tomatoes.
      Crispy Italian Fried Pizza (Easy Abruzzo Pizza Fritta)
    • St. Louis style thin crust whole wheat pizza cut into squares topped with artichoke hearts, Taggiasche olives, caramelized onions and melted mozzarella cheese - no yeast pizza dough recipe.
      Easy 20-Minute Thin & Crispy St. Louis-Style Whole Wheat Pizza
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