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Home › Recipe Skill Levels › Easy

Easy

What it means: Simple, stress-free, and reliable.

  • Ingredients: 8–10 or fewer, mostly pantry staples.
  • Techniques: Basic skills (sauté, boil, bake, stir). No special equipment beyond a skillet, sheet pan, or slow cooker.
  • Time: 30 minutes or less active cooking, or “dump and go” like a crockpot or air fryer.

Dinner

Mississippi Chicken Spaghetti

8 hours 25 minutes

Dinner

Dump and Bake Fried Rice

55 minutes

Soup

Slow Cooker Loaded Baked Potato Soup

6 hours 20 minutes

Halloween

Mummy Hot Dogs

17 minutes

Dinner

No Boil Spaghetti Bake

1 hour 5 minutes

Dressings, Sauces, and Dips

Hissy Fit Dip

55 minutes

Dinner

Stanley Tucci Pasta Fagioli

35 minutes

Dinner

Beef Broth Bowls

25 minutes

Dressings, Sauces, and Dips

Jalapeño Popper Dip

30 minutes

Desserts

Pumpkin Spice Crack

20 minutes

Side Dishes

Warm Brussels Sprouts Salad with Bacon

30 minutes

Appetizers

Bacon Brown Sugar Chicken Tenders

40 minutes

Bread

Cornbread Loaf

1 hour

Dinner

White Bolognese

1 hour 5 minutes

Dressings, Sauces, and Dips

Cincinnati Chili Dip (Skyline Dip)

20 minutes

Dinner

Slow Cooker Creamy Ranch Pork Chops

5 hours 10 minutes

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