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Our Best Chicken Recipes
This collection can all be found in the Chicken Recipes category. Or see the Chicken Breast Recipes for only breast recipes.
Baked Chicken Legs
Baked chicken legs are crispy, moist, and tender every time. A simple recipe—trim, pat dry, season, and bake. Follow the easy step-by-step photo instructions for perfect chicken legs every time in your oven from 350° to 425°, with or without convection.
Oven Baked Chicken Legs
Crispy Oven Fried Chicken
Tender and Crispy Oven Fried Chicken with buttermilk brine and seasoned coating, then baked in a convection oven for extra crispiness. No need to deep-fry. Make breasts, thighs, or tenders. The optional gravy provides extra flavor.
Oven Fried Chicken
Easiest Oven Roasted Whole Chicken
Anyone can bake a moist and tender whole chicken with the crispiest skin with only a few steps. This simple roast chicken recipe is the perfect healthy comfort food you can easily make at home. Based on an American Test Kitchen technique, I have simplified, added troubleshooting tips, expanded options, and added gravy.
Baked Whole Chicken
Pan Seared Oven Baked Chicken Breasts
An easy 30-minute recipe starting with searing the chicken breasts on the stovetop, then oven-baked to a final temperature of 165° for a great tasting, moist, and tender weeknight dinner.
Seared and Baked Chicken Breasts
How to Grill Chicken Breasts on a Gas Grill
Grilled chicken breasts can be juicy and tender with only a few simple steps. In under 30 minutes, you can have perfect chicken breasts every time. Just pay attention to our tips and follow the easy step-by-step photo instructions.
Grilled Chicken Breasts
Grilled Chicken Drumsticks
Perfectly Grilled Chicken Drumsticks are fast and easy with this never-fail recipe. Tender, flavorful, and budget-friendly, everybody from picky kids to grandma will love these crispy grilled drumsticks.
Grilled Drumsticks
The Best Holiday Recipes
It is always hard to decide on recipes for holiday feasts. These recipes are a good start, but you see the Thanksgiving Recipes and Christmas Recipes posts that are updated yearly with current suggestions.
Oven Roasted Turkey Breast—The Easy Way
Learn how to oven-roast a turkey breast the easiest way, with crispy skin and juicy, tender meat. With these easy, step-by-step photo instructions, anyone can bake turkey breasts perfectly.
Roasted Turkey Breast
Mom's Sausage Dressing
Everybody loves this homemade sausage dressing, made from scratch with breakfast sausage meat. This perfect old-fashioned Thanksgiving side dish is cooked outside the turkey for safety. A full-size recipe that is easy to scale to a small batch of sausage dressing for two with fewer leftovers.
Sausage Dressing Recipe
Old Fashioned Sweet Potato Casserole
Make the holidays complete with an Old-Fashioned Sweet Potato Casserole. This easy, traditional recipe starts by baking sweet potatoes and ends with a pecan brown sugar topping or the alternate classic marshmallow topping. It is a creamy holiday classic that we enjoy every holiday season.
Sweet Potato Casserole Recipe
Green Bean Casserole Without Mushroom Soup
This Green Bean Casserole without Mushroom Soup features tender green beans, a creamy sauce, lots of cheese, and your favorite toppings—a perfect Thanksgiving side dish. Once you make this easy recipe, you will never use that can of soup again!
Green Bean Casserole without Mushroom Soup
How to Make Gravy—Quick and Easy
Learn to make the best homemade gravy from scratch with these easy instructions. With or without pan dripping, you can have perfect gravy in about 10 minutes with either a roux or flour slurry. The same techniques can be used to thicken most liquids.
How to Make Gravy
Easy Dinner Rolls
This easy dinner roll recipe is ready in an hour. You can serve delicious homemade yeast dinner rolls that are the perfect addition to any meal. Soft and fluffy, these easy yeast rolls will become a family favorite. Make a full recipe for the whole family or a small batch half recipe for smaller needs.
Easy Dinner Roll Recipe
Easy Holiday Candy
Everybody loves candy. Take it to the office, give it as a gift, perfect for parties or snacks. See the Candy Recipes category for all the simple candy recipes.
Easy 5-Minute Chocolate Fudge
This easy, foolproof 5-Minute Chocolate Fudge recipe only needs 3 ingredients—sweetened condensed milk, vanilla extract, and your choice of chocolate chips plus optional additives. Perfect for holiday gifts, parties, or snacks.
5-Minute Fudge Recipe
Crock Pot Chocolate Peanut Clusters
Chocolate Peanut Clusters are easy to make in your crock pot, microwave, or stovetop. Use four ingredients for the best nut clusters—nuts, chocolate chips, almond bark, and Bakers chocolate to boost the quality. Nothing says love like a gift of delicious homemade candy, so give them your best.
Crock Pot Chocolate Peanut Clusters
Candied Almonds
Candied almonds are easy to make at home. Sugar-coated with lots of cinnamon and vanilla, this simple roasted almond recipe can also be adapted to make candied cashews, peanuts, walnuts, or any mixture of these or other nuts. With six ingredients and 10 minutes of prep time, they are ready to roast to perfection.
Candied Almonds
Oreo Fudge
Oreo Fudge is a white fudge with crunchy bits of Oreo cookies. It is a variation of the classic 5-minute fudge recipe. You will love this fast and easy stovetop recipe as much as the creamy, delicious white chocolate fudge.
Oreo Fudge Recipe
Pretzel Candies
Super easy chocolate pretzel candies are a great sweet and salty combo. They are perfect for "take a treat" to school, an office party, or even giving as gifts. Just three ingredients and no skill will get you these delicious candies.
Pretzel Candy Recipe
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
Our Top Grill Recipes
I love grilled meat, but most people buy a grill, and it is assumed they know how to use it. All these recipes have simple step-by-step photo instructions to help you get it right the first time and every time.
See the Grill Recipes category for more great grill recipes. And don't miss the Grill Technique category to learn more about your grill.
How to Grill Filet Mignon
Learn How to Grill Filet Mignon to perfection in about 10 minutes. With these simple step-by-step photo instructions, you can easily cook the best grilled filet mignon.
Grilled Filet Mignon
Grilled New York Strip Steaks
Perfectly Grilled NY Strip Steaks on the Gas Grill are fast and easy with this never-fail recipe. Fire up that backyard BBQ for some juicy, flavorful, and tender strip steaks—we grill steaks several times a month
How to Grill New York Strip Steaks
Grilled Pork Tenderloin
Grilling pork tenderloin on a gas grill is fast and easy. With a touch of char outside and juicy and tender meat inside, we love this fool-proof recipe, and so will you.
Grilled Pork Tenderloin
How to Grill Pork Chops
Learn how to grill perfect pork chops that are juicy and tender on your gas grill or any other type. Choose boneless or bone-in pork chops, add an optional brine, and a simple seasoning. The fast and easy step-by-step instructions make grilling the best chops simple.
How to Grill Pork Chops
How to Grill Hamburgers
Grilling hamburgers on your backyard gas (or charcoal) grill is fast and easy using store-bought ground beef and simple seasonings. Grilled over high heat for the best juicy homemade burgers, which will go from the refrigerator to your plate in under 20 minutes
How to Grill Burgers
How to Grill Ribeye Steak
Learn how easy and fast it is to grill a perfect ribeye steak on a gas or other grill. After resting at room temperature, add a simple seasoning and grill the steak for about 10 minutes. With these simple step-by-step instructions, you can enjoy the best ribeye steak at home.
How to Grill Ribeye Steak
The Best Small Crock Pot Recipes
This is a "cooking for two" blog, and all those big crock pot recipes can produce a lot of food. A smaller crock pot works better for most small households.
See the Crock Pot Recipes category for all-size slow cooker recipes. See the Small Crock Pot Recipes for 4 quart or under slow cookers and the Mini Crock Pot Recipes for 2-3 quart crock pots.
Crock Pot Apple Cobbler
This delicious crock pot apple cobbler is ideal for any occasion or every day. It is a super easy small-batch dessert recipe with cake mix and fresh apples. Ready in just a few hours, I love this warm and comforting treat, and you will too.
Crock Pot Apple Cobbler
Crock Pot Pizza Casserole
Crock Pot Pizza Casserole is an easy, delicious dinner recipe with tender pasta, homemade pizza sauce, melted cheese, Italian sausage, and pepperoni. This crock pot casserole recipe uses uncooked pasta and a homemade sauce that simmers with the casserole, which is economical and delicious.
Crock Pot Pizza
Crock Pot French Dip Recipe
This Crock Pot French Dip Recipe is easy to make, budget-friendly, and delicious. You can make perfect French dip sandwiches in your crock pot for game-day parties or everyday meals. Use a chuck roast or a similar cut and slow it all day in a flavorful homemade braising fluid until it is fall-apart tender. We like serving it in hoagie buns with melted cheese and au jus for dipping.
Crock Pot French Dip Recipe
Small Crock Pot Beef Stew
It's easy to make and one of the best beef stew recipes. This simple classic stew features tender chunks of stew meat, soft potatoes, and carrots in a rich tomato sauce. It's also a versatile small-batch recipe—you can make it for two in a mini crock pot or larger for a crowd.
Small Crock Pot Beef Stew
Crock Pot French Onion Soup
The best Crock Pot French Onion Soup has a rich beef broth and deeply caramelized onions. The easiest way to caramelize onions is by cooking them all day in a slow cooker rather than on the stovetop. The onion soup is served with toasted crusty bread and melted cheese.
French Onion Soup Recipe
Crock Pot Baked Ziti
Delicious Crock Pot Baked Zit has delicious meat sauce, three kinds of cheese, plus uncooked pasta baked in the slow cooker. You can have the best Italian pasta for dinner tonight.
Crock Pot Pasta Bake
Top Easy Dinner Recipes
Everybody needs quick and easy dinner recipes. These speedy recipes are ones I use all the time. See the Easy Dinner Recipes category for more choices.
Fried Pork Chops with Gravy
30-minute Fried Pork Chops and Gravy are moist and tender. Easy to make using a fast pan-frying and a simple pan gravy—an old-fashioned comfort food at its best.
Fried Pork Chop Recipe
The Best Taco Meat
The best Taco Meat recipe only needs 25 minutes, ground beef, and an easy homemade taco seasoning. Make it spicy or make it mild; you're in control. You will never use packaged taco seasoning again.
Spicy Taco Meat
Pan Seared Oven Roasted Pork Tenderloin
Pan-seared pork tenderloin, finished by baking to your ideal temperature, is tender, juicy, and delicious! With excellent browning from cast iron searing, it is still moist and tender from oven roasting— an easy, 30-minute dinner recipe.
Pan Seared Pork Tenderloin
Parmesan Crusted Tilapia
This baked Parmesan-crusted tilapia recipe features a crispy Parmesan coating seasoned with paprika on a tender, flaky fish fillet. It's an easy weeknight baked fish recipe that only takes 20 minutes to prep and bake in the oven, using fresh or thawed frozen tilapia fillets.
Parmesan Crusted Tilapia
How to Bake Chicken Breasts in a Convection Oven
The best way to bake chicken breasts is with your convection oven, but you can bake them in any type of oven. Your dinner will be ready in about 30 minutes and will be healthy, moist, and tender every time. Quick and easy with just a few easy secrets any home cook can master.
Convection Oven Baked Chicken
30 Minute Boneless Pork Ribs
Learn how to cook the best Country-Style Boneless Pork Ribs that are moist and tender in only 30 minutes. This is one of our favorite lean, healthy weeknight dinner recipes that is fast and easy to make. Just trim and season to your taste, and after a brief stovetop sear, finish cooking the boneless ribs in the oven.
Seared and Baked Boneless Pork Ribs
