January 24, 2025

Garlic Butter Steak Bites

Recipe By: Dinner at the Zoo

Rating: 5 from 181 votes

Served with mashed or baked potatoes and cucumber salad

Sometimes you want some delicious steak without, you know, making a STEAK. This is the perfect recipe for those times. Tip: have everything else ready before you cook the steak. It comes together really quickly!

Chicken Picatta Meatballs

Soup By: The Mediterranean Dish

Rating: 4.94 from 94 votes

Serve with rice and sauteed green beans (or veg of your choice)

This was a new recipe for me, and it’s a keeper. Just know you’ll have to cook the meatballs in batches so they will brown. So keep that in mind timing-wise. Also, don’t overcook the meatballs while browning like I did. Just brown them and let them finish cooking in the sauce later.

Scallop Chowder

Recipe By: Little Broken

Rating: 5 from 15 votes

I can’t believe there are only 15 votes for this. I’ve probably made it myself 7 times now. It’s easy, different, and delicious.

Tip: Just make a whole package of bacon. Use the grease to cook the rest of the chowder and then top the finished chowder with the bacon crumbles. Okay, okay, YES I love bacon. But it really does add just the right finishing touch to this.

White Wine Chicken Stew

Recipe By: Ambitious Kitchen

Rating: 4.79 stars from 186 votes

Yum, yum, and YUM. Everyone loved this! The recipe is written for the crockpot. Of course, your girl here didn’t swing that. If you check the comments, though, others who’ve made the recipe give directions for making it on the stovetop and in Instant Pot. This one will likely make another appearance before winter is over.

Hotdogs

Serve with: fries (Check those ingredients! I LOVE LOVE LOVE the Actual Veggies brand from Sprouts) or roasted potatoes and frozen mixed veggies with lots o’ butter and a good sprinkle of sea salt

It’s COLD outside, so I don’t think anybody’s grilling hotdogs right now. But maybe this visual ode to summer will bring us all a little warmth? Fingers crossed…

This is just one of those get-it-done meals. Sometimes I need one of those a week when I don’t want to spend a lot of time in the kitchen. Hope it frees up some time for you, too.

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