Real Recipes From Real Home Cooks ®

Main Dish Recipes

Add a pinch of fun to your next meal with these beloved main course recipe ideas. Meat and potatoes? You bet! But it doesn’t stop there…

Fine dining at home.  Be sure to get the Garlic Scape Pesto recipe from my recipe box.    Very tasty pasta dish.

Pasta With Garlic Scape Pesto Cream Sauce

Rainie Piccione avatar
By Rainie Piccione
Pasta with Garlic Scape Pesto Cream Sauce is a yummy way to use your pesto. ...
Picture by Jostlori

Stuffed Potatoes Cubano

Carolyn Haas avatar
By Carolyn Haas
There are many recipes for these delicious Cuban potato balls - this one is filled ...
(1 rating)
So yummy

Poultry Essentials: The Best Lemon/lemon Chicken

Andy Anderson ! avatar
By Andy Anderson !
This is my best lemon chicken, and it has two sources of yummy lemony flavor… ...

Utica Greens Pizza With Hot Capicola Ham

Rainie Piccione avatar
By Rainie Piccione
Love our greens. Always trying to put them into other recipes. ...
Vermicelli noodles with prawns and peppers.

Singapore Noodles

Francine Lizotte avatar
By Francine Lizotte
If you've had Singapore Noodles at the restaurant before, now you can make this scrumptious ...
Burger halves stuffed with melted Cheddar cheese on a bun.

Chipotle Stuffed Bronto Burger

Francine Lizotte avatar
By Francine Lizotte
These burgers are both BIG in flavor and size! Bet you can't eat two of ...
Two hot dogs filled with ground beef mixture and topped with mustard and white onions sitting on a plate.

Coney Island Hot Dog

Francine Lizotte avatar
By Francine Lizotte
Give your hot dogs a delicious twist with this recipe. The amazing flavor comes from ...
Shredded pork in a tortilla with sour cream and avocado slices.

El Pollo Cinco De Mayo•slow Cooker Mexican Chicken

Francine Lizotte avatar
By Francine Lizotte
This slow cooker recipe is packed with yumminess! You can either serve it over rice ...
Utica Greens Penne:  A mixture of Utica Greens, heavy cream and Penne pasta.  The addition of cream to the Utica greens makes for a tasty sauce when the bread crumbs and parmesan mix with the cream.

Utica Greens Penne With Cream Sauce

Rainie Piccione avatar
By Rainie Piccione
What makes this dish so good it the mixture of the heavy cream with Utica ...
Delicious and easy Chicken Chow Mein with crispy noodles, golden browned chicken breasts, cabbage, carrots, onions and celery is sure to become of your family’s favorite feasts!

Chicken Chow Mein

Beth Pierce avatar
By Beth Pierce
Delicious and easy Chicken Chow Mein with crispy noodles, golden browned chicken breasts, cabbage, carrots, ...
These Dry Rub Oven Baked Ribs are perfect for those times when you want tender flavor packed ribs but aren’t able to grill or smoke them.  They are prefect for those stormy summer days when outside cooking is not an option.

Oven Baked Ribs

Beth Pierce avatar
By Beth Pierce
These Dry Rub Oven Baked Ribs are perfect for those times when you want tender ...
A halibut fillet with butter sauce on top sitting on a blue plate with rice and broccoli.

Tarragon Limoncello Halibut

Francine Lizotte avatar
By Francine Lizotte
Very light and tasty, this fish recipe is made for the warm summer months! In ...
Eggplant Parmesan baked until the cheese is melted.

Eggplant Parmesan

Carol Perricone avatar
By Carol Perricone
My mother-in-law taught me how to pick, peel, and slice eggplants. My daughters now know ...
(3 ratings)
Lemon thyme chicken garnished with fresh thyme

Lemon Thyme Chicken

Victoria Russell avatar
By Victoria Russell
This was my first ever homemade lemon thyme chicken! I had to make do with ...
(1 rating)

Cuban Sweet And Spicy Mango Chicken

Vickie Parks avatar
By Vickie Parks
Mango is abundant in Cuba and is used in many recipes, from beverages and deserts ...
(1 rating)
So yummy

Cooking Under Pressure: Yummy Asian Pork & Noodles

Andy Anderson ! avatar
By Andy Anderson !
This recipe is packed with flavor, and is fork tender… it is easy/peasy to make, ...

Creamy Surf Or Turf Casserole

Maggie M avatar
By Maggie M
This started as a chicken recipe and with a little tweak here and a big ...
This is a very easy and  tasty dish that my Husband and kids love! It’s Truly Minnesotan, Don’t Ya Know!

Hamburger Chowmein Hotdish

Leslie Doolittle avatar
By Leslie Doolittle
Easy to prepare casserole topped with a crunchy coating of chow mein noodles. A ...

European Style Meatballs

Amy H. avatar
By Amy H.
This is delicious. I used to make them with veal, but around here, if you ...
Yummy spicy Spanish short ribs

Bonnie’s Spicy Spanish Short Ribs

BonniE ! avatar
By BonniE !
Dang, this recipe is good eats! The short ribs are cut-them-with-a-fork tender! Tons ...

Charlene's Irish Tacos

Lynn Clay avatar
By Lynn Clay
This is a recipe that my Mom, Charlene, dreamed up when I was growing up. ...
(3 ratings)
Assembled turkey burger, cut in half, on a sesame seed bun with lettuce and tomato

Juicy Turkey Burgers

Joshua McGee avatar
By Joshua McGee
When I first came up with this turkey burger recipe, my wife informed me that ...
Falafels with yogurt sauce on top on a white plate with couscous in the background.

Easy Falafel

Francine Lizotte avatar
By Francine Lizotte
This Easy Falafel dish is so tasty! It can be served as an appetizer along ...
Skewed chicken strips on a plate sitting on a beige table mat.

Chicken Satay

Francine Lizotte avatar
By Francine Lizotte
This is a great meal to make this summer on the BBQ. It pairs so ...
28416