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...
Weeknight Meals
Swedish Meatballs
These Swedish Meatballs make a perfect cozy comfort meal on a blustery wintery day. Perfectly seasoned, tender, and coated in a rich gravy, you will love having this recipe on your family table. How to make Swedish Meatballs- Shape and bake. Baking these Swedish Meatballs simplifies the prep and helps save time so you can...
Chicken Shawarma Skewers with Dill Yogurt Sauce
Drumroll please! Grilling weather has returned to Michigan and we are soaking it all in. After developing this recipe last summer and making it almost weekly for a while, it was only natural for these Chicken Shawarma Skewers to be the first thing we grilled on THE DAY. You know the one. That first truly...
Warm Potato Salad with Bacon and Dijon
It's almost picnic season and I am thrilled to be thinking of some great recipes that can work for a laid back outing, family gathering, or my personal favorite- camping. This Warm Potato Salad with Bacon and Dijon is a great side dish to accompany anything on your menu, and it's also great served cold...
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...
Sheet Pan Sausages and Potatoes with Asparagus and Garlic
This has been one of my favorite easy weeknight meals for a very long time. It’s so endlessly adaptable, and always hits the spot with its deep caramelized flavors and variety of crisp textures. Also, if you’ve never roasted whole garlic cloves before, you’re in for a real treat. I hope you’ll add Roasted Sheet...
Eggs in Purgatory
Don't let the name scare you off. Eggs in Purgatory is pure goodness. It is an Italian recipe called Uova in Purgatorio, and it seems to refer to the spicy, red tomato sauce as the purgatory for the eggs. Call it whatever you want, but it's delicious, and it reminds me of many slightly spicy,...
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...
Beef Carnitas (Instant Pot or Slow Cooker)
These Beef Carnitas can be made in the slow-cooker or the Instant Pot for your convenience. Juicy, tender beef roast is shredded then broiled to achieve amazing crispy edges to elevate your taco night. "Little Meats" "Carnitas" translates to literally mean "little meats" in English. Carnitas are traditionally made with pulled pork instead of beef,...
Creamy Mushroom Soup
Creamy Mushroom Soup is absolutely one of my favorite homemade soup recipes. A few fresh, humble ingredients and less than an hour of time stand between you and a steaming bowl of homemade cream of mushroom soup. It's way better than store-bought! Taste as you go. I can't emphasize it enough that you need to...