Family Dinner

Plus 21 more marinades you’ll want to add to your roster.

It’s so creamy!

Perfect for those busy weeknights.

Kid-friendly, parent-appreciated.

It results in a week of colorful and produce-packed family-friendly meals.

That crust!

It’s a sauce! It’s a dip! It’s a dressing!

The possibilities are endless.

It’s full of bright, tomato flavor.

Because adjusting to the back-to-school routine can be tough.

The secret ingredient is the best $5 you’ll spend all week.

Added bonus: clean up time is cut in half.

Most of them only call for one pot, one bowl, or one baking sheet.

For the pickiest eaters.

The lemony sauce is perfect.

There are only a handful of recipes I keep in constant rotation. I’ve told you about Tara O’Brady’s basic, great chocolate chips cookies and Smitten Kitchen’s cannellini aglio e olio, but I’ve selfishly been keeping Ina Garten’s summer garden pasta a secret.At first glance, Ina’s dish looks like any other tomato pasta made with basil and olive oil. But once you get started, you’ll quickly learn why it’s special.

I always have all the ingredients on hand.

Some days are more balanced than others, and that’s perfectly fine!

Chicken salad is the cool MVP of all kinds of family meals.

This is the only way to do it all summer.

These are perfect for lazy nights.

Just some of the iconic and unsung dishes we've loved over the years.

One pan, way fewer dishes.

It’s the perfect easy, fun dinner for a Friday night family movie night.

A dozen recipes to keep everyone well-fed and happy.

A little bit of Lawry’s will always do the trick.

The sauce is so good, you’ll want to spoon it on everything.

Every bite is delicious.

On our sister site, The Kitchn, the most popular recipe of 2024 by far was Kelli Foster’s classic lasagna. (Kelli is The Kitchn’s official Dinner Therapist and the person behind some of our most beloved recipes like Tuscan Chicken and our Best-Ever French Toast.)  I’m not usually a lasagna girl (I wasn’t even when everyone else was in 2020!). They take forever, and I’m never that impressed. Baked ziti? So much easier, just as good.

How to make chicken breast better than ever.

With five kids and multiple sports activities, sometime you need the dinner help.

It’s all about the creamy spinach sauce.

My family’s most well-loved, whole-table-pleasing dinners — and all under $20 a meal.

Inspired by Chipotle's honey chicken (my son's favorite).

So delicious!

Try and find something it's not good on.

Canned corn to the rescue.

The sauce is everything.

It’s wildly easy, the salmon cooks evenly, and traps most of the fish-cooking smell in the oven.

Bonus? Cleanup is a breeze.

It feels fancy to our two kids, but it's easy for my husband or me to cook it.

It’s my favorite quick dinner.

The sauce is everything.

My kids dove in with gusto.

I mean, yum.

It’s the only store-bought pizza this former wood-burning-oven pizza cook thinks is worth buying twice.

Forget everything you think you know about getting crispy skin.

Dive in face-first.