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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.

Dressings, Sauces, and Dips

Oklahoma Dip

2 hours 10 minutes

Pantry Staples

Homemade Pumpkin Pie Spice

5 minutes

Dinner

Creamy Sausage Pasta Bake

50 minutes

Desserts

The Very Best No Bake Cookies

15 minutes

Dinner

Caramelized Chuck Roast

4 hours 10 minutes

Soup

Shepherd’s Pie Soup

35 minutes

Dinner

Crockpot Creamy Chicken Pasta

4 hours 5 minutes

Desserts

Pumpkin Sheet Cake Bars

40 minutes

Dinner

No Peek Chicken and Rice Casserole

1 hour 20 minutes

Dinner

Marry Me Pork Chops

40 minutes

Dinner

Crockpot Italian Grinder Chicken

6 hours 10 minutes

Dinner

Sheet Pan Gnocchi

30 minutes

Dinner

Street Corn Chicken Enchiladas

40 minutes

Bread

Dill Pickle Bread

55 minutes

poppyseed chicken casserole

Dinner

Poppy Seed Chicken Casserole

35 minutes

Dinner

Lazy Meatball Lasagna

1 hour 10 minutes

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