If you're looking for a comforting, flavor-packed meal that comes together with minimal fuss, this one-pot orzo with Italian sausage, tomatoes, and spinach is about to become your new favorite weeknight meal. You can use fresh-from-the-garden ingredients when they’re in season or canned tomatoes and frozen spinach for convenience. Best of all? Everything cooks in...
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Creamy Tortellini and Sausage Soup
The act of making soup is one of my very favorite things to do in the kitchen. It is so relaxing and satisfying to have a big pot simmering on the stove. The aroma, the sneaking a peek into the pot, and of course a little taste now and then. The anticipation of a warm,...
Instant Pot Three Cheese Macaroni
Faster to prepare than the blue box, but still homemade? Yes, please. Instant Pot Three Cheese Macaroni is the quick and easy weeknight meal or weekday lunch that your busy schedule needs. Easily adaptable to suit whichever cheeses you have on hand, you're sure to be able to whip this mac and cheese up on...
Sesame Noodles
This recipe for Sesame Noodles quite possibly may be the quickest meal recipe I've ever shared on Kitchen Joy. The toasty, slightly spicy sauce comes together in less time than it takes to boil the water for the noodles, so stock your pantry with the ingredients and you'll be ready for a delicious, flavor-packed bowl...
Creamy Tomato Sauce
This Creamy Tomato Sauce is a great tomato-based pasta sauce with a luxurious and satisfying creaminess that makes for a nice change from traditional marinara on spaghetti night. If there's any cooking skill that I HIGHLY recommend everyone developing, it's knowing how to make a few sauces. Once you've got a few sauce methods in...
Shrimp Linguine with White Wine Cream Sauce
Creamy Shrimp Linguine in a Parmesan white wine cream sauce with fresh spinach and grape tomatoes makes for an impressive yet easy weeknight meal. I know, I know. This sounds fancy and complicated. Hear me out though... It's not complicated. It's quick and easy. A weeknight meal favorite in our house for sure. Shrimp cooks...
Creamy Chicken and Noodles
Sometimes there just isn't enough time in the day (or night) for a perfectly planned out menu. I call those days Tuesdays. When Michael and I were dating, he used to cook up some chicken breasts and some white rice, and then make a sauce with cream of chicken soup. It was a very filling,...
Spicy Mac and Cheese with Grilled Chicken
There are some things I will never outgrow. Today I get to travel to Walt Disney World in Orlando to attend Food Blog Forum 2015, my first blogging event. I've wanted to go to an event for a while, and Kitchen Joy just had its 2nd birthday so this seemed an appropriate way to celebrate....
Spinach and Chicken White Lasagna
In the battle between white sauce lasagna and red sauce lasagna, I am a firm believer in calling it a tie. Why should anyone have to choose between two so incredible dishes that are sure to please almost anyone? One of my favorite menus for a casual dinner gathering is making one of each. There’s...
Tuna Noodle Casserole
My mission: To create a fantastic Tuna Noodle Casserole that involves no canned soup and will put all other versions to shame. It's not much to look at, but let me tell you...It is amazing. People often comment to Michael and I about how on earth we don't weigh 500 pounds, considering the fact that...