Easter is a perfect holiday—there is no need to run around looking for a ton of presents. Color a few eggs, select a few Easter-like toys, and have a relaxed Easter holiday meal with your family. Plus, it is the time of year when we need a relaxing holiday break.
Smaller Main Course Recipes
When people ask you what you had for dinner, you don't say asparagus or dinner rolls; you say turkey, ham, or a rib roast. Let's get what you want. It's a ham for us.
Small Crock Pot Ham with Brown Sugar Honey Glaze
This Small Crock Pot Ham with Brown Sugar Glaze recipe uses Pineapple, a precooked quarter or half ham, and pantry spices to make a perfect holiday ham for a small household or as a second main dish for large holiday feasts.
Small Brown Sugar Glazed Ham
Small Ribeye Roast
Ribeye roast is a classic main entree for special meals. A ribeye roast is Prime Rib without the bone, making it easier to cook and scale to the right size at home.
Small Ribeye Roast
Pan Seared Oven Roasted Filet Mignon
Learn to cook filet mignon like the best steakhouses. Start by pan-searing it briefly in a cast iron skillet, then finish cooking it in the oven. Fast and easy, it makes perfectly juicy and tender beef filet steak.
Oven Filet Mignon
Oven Roasted Turkey Breast—The Easy Way
Oven-roasted turkey breast is perfect for two or smaller households when a whole turkey is too much. Most recipes for turkey breasts intimidate home cooks, but with our simple step-by-step recipe, even the novice cook can bake the perfect turkey breast.
Baked Turkey Breast Recipe
Turkey Tenderloin Recipe
This Turkey Tenderloin Recipe uses a brief sear on the stovetop, then oven-roasted to finish for a moist and tender turkey. Perfect for a smaller Thanksgiving or other delicious dinner that is lean and healthy for smaller households.
Turkey Tenderloin Recipe
What to Do With Leftover Ham
Leftover ham is a great problem to have, but there are a few challenges, especially for smaller households. Let's deal with it correctly and safely.
Leftover Ham Recipes
Vegetable Side Dishes
A main dish without sides is not a full meal. They need to be easy to make but also delicious.
Cheesy Potatoes with Real Potatoes
These delicious cheesy potatoes are made from scratch with real potatoes. Sometimes called funeral potatoes, this classic potato casserole recipe is made the old-fashioned way without hashbrown potatoes or canned soup.
Cheesy Potatoes with Real Potatoes
Roasted Asparagus with Parmesan
Easy Roasted Asparagus with Parmesan only needs a few ingredients and about 12 minutes in your convection oven for crispy asparagus with garlic and Parmesan—perfect for any meal.
Roasted Asparagus Recipe
Baked Green Beans with Bacon
Baked Green Beans with Bacon are the perfect side dish with any meal—an easy green bean recipe with brown sugar, garlic, bacon, and tender green beans.
Frozen Green Bean Recipe
Parmesan Roasted Cauliflower
This caramelized Parmesan roasted cauliflower recipe will become your favorite way to cook cauliflower. Using fresh or frozen, it makes a great hot baked side dish.
How to Roast Cauliflower
Parmesan Baked Potatoes
Quick and easy Parmesan Baked Potatoes halves have a creamy center and a crispy Parmesan cheese crust with butter and garlic.
Parmesan Baked Potato Halves
Bread Recipes
I'm a bread fanatic. A nice bread completes any meal, and there is nothing like homemade bread.
Quick and Easy Yeast Dinner Rolls
These Quick and Easy Yeast Dinner Rolls are golden brown with a buttery crust and tender inside. Perfect for holiday meals or your family dinner.
Fast Yeast Dinner Rolls
Lunch Lady Rolls—Small Batch Version
Old fashioned 60s school Lunch Lady Rolls, those wonderful hot rolls everybody loved in the cafeteria. You can now be made with this small batch recipe mixed by hand or in a stand mixer at home.
Small Batch Lunch Lady Rolls
Julia Child's French Bread - Simplified
Not for two, but a wonder loaf for any holiday. Julia Child's French Bread recipe is the ultimate crusty artisan French bread.
ulia Child's French Bread Recipe
Small Dessert Recipes
Make it an exceptional meal with a sweet ending.
Berry Crisp for Two or More
An irresistible Berry Crisp for Two that's easy to adjust up or down to fit your needs. Use fresh or frozen berries in a sweet filling topped with a crispy oat streusel topping.
Berry Crisp for Two
Easy Old Fashioned Apple Crisp
This easy Old Fashioned Apple Crisp is a small-batch recipe with only three apples and a few pantry ingredients. Easy to make for two or a crowd. It's a delicious apple dessert with plenty of cinnamon apples and a crumble topping, just like Grandma would make.
Apple Crisp Recipe
Old Fashioned Lemon Bars
This Old Fashioned Lemon Bar recipe is easy and quick but still uses a classic shortbread crust and a tangy and sweet custard filling of eggs and lemon juice. It's a small 8X8 recipe that is easy to double for more lemon squares.
Small Batch Lemon Bars
Fresh Strawberry Pie with Jello
Fresh strawberry pie with Jello is a simple old-fashioned recipe made famous at Shoney's Big Boy. Served topped with whipped cream, strawberry Jello pie is the perfect light summer dessert for a picnic or every day.
Fresh Strawberry Pie Recipe
Apple Berry Crumble
A fast, old-fashioned Apple Berry Crumble that combines apples and berries with a buttery streusel crumb topping. Use fresh berries and apples, or make it "semi-homemade" with frozen berries and a can of apple pie filling. So easy, so good.
Apple Berry Crumble
Special Easter Treats
Give the ones you love a special treat. Try these almond clusters topped with Easter-colored sprinkles or M&Ms. Or leave out the nuts, make white chocolate candy, and top it with Jelly Beans. Use your (or the kids') imagination.
Crock Pot White Chocolate Almond Clusters
Super easy and delicious white chocolate almond clusters are the perfect gift for the holidays or for any special occasion. Simple with these step by step photo instruction for the perfect white chocolate candy.
White Chocolate Almond Cluster Recipe
And the dogs also desire a treat.
Low-Fat Homemade Dog Treats—Healthy & Delicious
Low Fat Homemade Dog Treats are the perfect low-calorie treat for your dog. With only five ingredients, your dog will love the peanut butter and pumpkin taste. Much healthier than commercial treats—any veterinarian would approve.
Recipe for Low Fat Dog Treats
Originally Published April 14, 2019. Updated yearly for new choices
Neny Garcia says
Love your recipes, thanks for sharing. And also love to see pictures of Molly and Lilly. ♥
Pat Monahan says
Can I come to your house for Easter? ;)