Easy dinner recipes for a crowd — comforting, crowd-sized main dishes from Stephanie’s family table, from weeknight casseroles to Sunday roasts.
Is It Fancy? No. Do My Kids Ask for It Every Week? Absolutely. Tuna noodle casserole doesn’t get the respect it deserves, and I am here to change that. This is the ultimate from-the-pantry, feed-your-family-on-a-budget dinner that my kids genuinely love and ask for by name. Growing up, my dad didn’t like tuna, so this…
One Pan Taco Casserole Looks Like You Tried — You Didn’t This one pan taco casserole is the dinner I pull out when I absolutely do not feel like cooking but I still need to feed my people. It looks like you tried. I promise you didn’t. Brown your ground beef with onions and garlic,…
Two Proteins, One Pot, Zero Complaints Thai coconut curry shrimp and chicken is what I made on a Thursday night when all my girls came home from college — and they brought friends. Fourteen people around my table and not a single complaint — only empty bowls and requests for the recipe. The trick? I…
The Meal That Makes My Baby Girl Come Running to the Table Classic beef stroganoff is one of those meals that never gets old in our house. My youngest asks for it by name — and when she hears me pulling out the egg noodles, she is in the kitchen before I can even get…
The Easiest Meal I Didn’t Have to Cook Today Sweet potato enchiladas are one of those recipes that makes you feel like a genius — especially when you pull them straight out of the freezer on a busy weeknight and dinner is done before you can even think about what to make. My friend Melissa…
The Dish That Makes the Rice Cook Itself and the Whole House Smell Like Dinner This chicken mushroom rice bake came to me as a new-to-me recipe and I am so glad I tried it. You stir the rice right into French onion soup and beef consommé, top it with butter and mushrooms and Parmesan,…
The One-Pot Meal That Feeds a Crowd and Makes the Whole House Smell Amazing This jambalaya recipe is one of my all-time personal favorites, and on crowd nights when I need to feed a lot of people, it is what I keep coming back to. I made two pots side by side — one shrimp…
The Main Event Has Arrived — And It’s Wearing Pineapple Juice The easiest ham recipe for a crowd is the one I’ve been making for years, and it has never once let me down. Every single Easter, this ham is the centerpiece of my table. Three ingredients. Tight foil. About ten minutes per pound. That’s…
The Homemade Hot Pocket My Great-Grandma Would Be Proud Of Aunt Jane’s Homemade Hot Pockets are a three-generation family recipe — seasoned ground beef and cabbage cooked together, wrapped in crescent rolls, and baked until golden. My family has Bohemian roots, and my great-grandma used to make what she called krautburgers — cabbage and meat…
Dump It In the Crockpot and Thank Me Later Every Thursday night, our house fills up. Our college girls come home — and they bring friends. It started as a simple family dinner and somehow turned into this beautiful, loud, wonderful crowd of hungry college kids piling around our table. I love it so much….
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