Dinner - quick and easy recipes - page 170

This recipe is presented by Eggland’s Best. This is one of those recipes in which you throw everything into a casserole dish, refrigerate, bake, and voila! French Toast Strata, a special occasion breakfast or brunch centerpiece. The hardest part may be remembering to mix the ingredients ahead of time so you can refrigerate the dish between 2 hours and overnight. The easiest part? Savoring the sweet results.

This recipe is presented by Eggland’s Best. The ingredients are the same as a traditional breakfast of eggs, toast, and bacon, but this recipe is anything but ordinary. Transform your toast by de-crusting it, rolling it flat, and giving its bottom a slick maple-butter coating. When you bake the eggs correctly, each serving should offer the chance for a fork to pierce the yoke and send the golden liquid running.

This recipe is presented by Eggland’s Best. Is it breakfast or is it dessert? Is it Italian or French? Who cares, when it’s so delicious? For such a fancy fusion, the steps are relatively easy. Don’t forget to sprinkle your rolls with powdered sugar for the final flourish.

This recipe is presented by Eggland’s Best. Impress your friends and family with chocolate-almond dessert crepes for a brunch or dinner party dessert. You’ll need an 8-inch nonstick skillet, a wire rack for cooking the crepes, and wax paper for stacking them. To pipe the chocolate filling down the center of each crepe, stuff it into a zip-lock plastic bag and snip off ½ inch at one corner to create your own pastry bag.

This recipe is presented by Eggland’s Best. This is a great idea for using your leftover mashed sweet potatoes from Thanksgiving or other holiday dinners. The savory pork sausage complements the maple syrup and allspice. And with old-fashioned oats and eggs, you’ve got a hearty, complete meal in a muffin.

This recipe is presented by Eggland’s Best. Everything is better in a bread bowl. Anchor this meal right by choosing the best, most crusty dinner rolls you can find. Larger bread will work too. This dinner is something kids will love, giving a whole new meaning to pizza.

Got your hands on some good, fresh oysters? Serve these luscious bivalves in haute style with caviar, mirapoix, and coriander. You’ll need your oyster-shucking tool, of course. And don’t forget to buy a hefty amount of ice or salt to serve this starter on a bed of ice or salt for a cool, crisp, dramatic backdrop.

This is a dish not to be savored lightly. Nor is Foie Gras Torchon a dish to be created easily. Skill, daring, and attention to detail are the unlisted ingredients necessary for this delicacy to be a success. But when it is done correctly —my, oh my.

Pot Pie is a cold-weather classic and a great way to use up leftover Thanksgiving bird or other cooked poultry. But the key to a good pot pie is tasty creamed fowl (take your pick of creamed chicken, turkey, or even duck) with a nice acidic note. Of course, you can always eat it as is over rice or noodles for a Midwest classic.

One of the most ubiquitous casseroles around, the pot pie has many incarnations, both good and bad—but when it’s good, it’s memorable. With tasty Creamed Turkey (or Creamed Chicken, if you prefer), loads of vegetables, and a no-fuss puff pastry crust, this one falls in the good category. We think you’ll agree. What to buy: We used Dufour puff pastry with excellent results, but if you prefer a denser crust, try topping your pot pie with frozen store-bought flaky pie dough. This recipe was feat...

Creamed spinach can be clunky, rich with so much cream and butter the spinach itself is an afterthought. Start by reducing cream while infusing it with a subtle hit of onion. Separately, wilt the spinach, drain off the excess liquid, then add the reduced cream, season, and serve. For a classic steakhouse dinner, pair this creamed spinach with Roasted Herbed Beef Tenderloin, a Caesar Salad, and Dilled Potato Gratin.

A careful balance of salty and sweet, crisp and chewy, these nuts are the perfect accompaniment for cocktail hour. You start with raw, untoasted cashews, toss them with oil and set aside. Then you make a syrup with brown sugar, a little water, and honey. Drizzle it over the cashews, toss, spread onto baking sheets and toast in a medium oven till golden brown and crisp. The cashews will last 1 week stored in an airtight container at room temperature. We featured this recipe in our Bring Happy ...

In this refreshing and unexpected cocktail-party appetizer, elegantly concave leaves of Belgian endive become easy-to-pick-up vessels for a delicious mixture of diced feta and pear, seasoned with lemon juice, olive oil, and salt and pepper. It’s easy, healthy, and sets your guests up for the meal (or more substantial appetizers) to come.

This streamlined version of classic Greek spanakopita calls for frozen chopped spinach and frozen filo dough, so active prep is at a minimum. You begin by making the filling, sautéeing onion in butter, then adding eggs, Parmesan cheese, bread crumbs, and seasonings. Add the squeezed, defrosted spinach and crumbled feta. Then layer thin sheets of filo dough in a baking dish, remembering to brush each layer with melted butter.

Think of this as a lower-stress version of Chicken Cacciatore. Skin-on, bone in chicken thighs receive a flavor-boosting browning. They’re joined in the crockpot with the classic trio of aromatic vegetables: onion, celery, and garlic, with garlic, sautéed to soften. Moisten with broth, canned diced tomatoes, red wine, and balsamic, and let the slow cooker do its thing for 5 to 6 hours. Serve with creamy Polenta.

Like crepes? Than you’re going to love socca. This thin chickpea flour pancake hails from Nice, but it’s rarely seen outside the South of France (except in Genoa where’s it called a farinata), and we think it merits wider recognition. Add a flavorful filling—we like it with a dollop of fresh goat cheese and lots of freshly ground black pepper—fold it up, and polish a few off for a delicious snack.