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Sep
05
2016

15 Best Weeknight Dinner Recipes

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15 Best Weeknight Dinner Recipes- Looking for something quick and easy to make for dinner during back to school time?  Check out our favorite easy recipes from the blog for this busy time of year!
15 Easy Dinner Recipes perfect for those busy nights!

Hey friends!  I am popping by to share some of our favorite easy dinner recipes with you.  Easy cooking is pretty much the only thing on my brain the last few weeks.  So I’ve dug deep into my blog archives and found our favorites!  I hope they will give you a little easy inspiration during this busy time of year.  I love all of these recipe so much, and I hope you do too!!

Slow Cooker Balsamic Chicken
Throw the chicken in the crock pot frozen with a quick marinade and when you get home, you will have chicken ready to go for sandwiches or wraps.
Slow Cooker Balsamic Chicken - Easy flavorful shredded balsamic chicken cooked in the crock pot and ready for so many dishes like wraps and sandwiches.

My favorite thing to do with the balsamic chicken is to make sandwiches!
Slow Cooker Balsamic Chicken Sandwiches - Served on a toasted ciabatta roll and topped with bacon and cheddar cheese with a roasted garlic mayo. They are so good!

But these Hot-Pressed Chicken Caprese Wraps are pretty darn good too!
Hot-Pressed Chicken Caprese Wraps - Made with Slow Cooker Balsamic Chicken!!

Crockpot Sausage & Potatoes
This little recipe right here is super popular!!  It’s total comfort food, and your house will smell
AH-MAZING!!
Crockpot Sausage & Potatoes is such an easy dinner idea with only five ingredients! Plus it will leave your house smelling amazing as it cooks all day!

Taco Calzones
This is one of my oldies but goodies on the blog.  It is super easy and family-friendly!
Taco Calzones

White Chicken Enchilada Pasta
Craving pasta this week?  This one is so easy and delicious!!
White Chicken Enchilada Pasta - A delicious pasta filled with all the wonderful flavor of white chicken enchiladas with the help of green chilies, a little sour cream, and melted jack cheese.

Barbecue Meatloaf & Cheddar Oven Sliders
These little burgers were super popular with my kiddos!
Barbecue Meatloaf & Cheddar Oven Sliders - Baked meatloaf slider burgers topped with a wonderful homemade easy barbecue sauce, cheddar cheese, and red onion. Perfect for game day!

One-Pot Beefy Broccoli Rice
I love this one!!  Plus one pot means less dishes too!  We need that around here!
Beefy Broccoli Rice

Slow Cooker Sauce Picante
This is a mildly spicy beef stew dish that cooks up all day in the crock pot!!
Slow Cooker Sauce Piquante - An easy and delicious slow cooker recipe filled with tomatoes, smoked pork sausage, and beef stew meat. Perfect served over rice!

Slow Cooker Chili
Pass me the Fritos!  It’s fall y’all, and I can’t wait for some Slow Cooker Chili!!
Slow Cooker Chili | Diary of a Recipe Collector

Easy Weeknight Chicken & Dumplings
I love this quick version of chicken and dumplings!  
Easy Weeknight Chicken & Dumplins | Diary of a Recipe Collector

Chicken Enchilada Stromboli
Great Mexican flavors all wrapped up in refrigerated pizza dough makes an easy supper!
Chicken Enchilada Stromboli

Hot Pressed BBQ Chicken Wrap
This is a favorite around here.  It’s perfect for leftover chicken!
Hot-Pressed BBQ Chicken Wrap

One Pot Mexi Beef & Corn Bake
Okay so this picture really needs updating, but this dish is delicious.  We love our corn around here!
One Pot Mexi Beef & Corn Bake | Diary of a Recipe Collector

Potato & Sausage Soup
This was one of my favorite recipes last year!  It uses breakfast sausage and frozen hash browns 🙂
Potato & Sausage Soup - A hearty soup filled with breakfast sausage and frozen hash brown potatoes making it a quick and easy soup recipe idea!

One-Pot Cajun Black-Eyed Peas & Rice
And here’s another FAVORITE!  It’s a twist on this One-Pot Cabbage Casserole which is the most popular recipe on my blog.
One-Pot Cajun Black-Eyed Peas & Rice - A delicious easy one pot super packed full of Cajun flavor and filled with ground beef, black-eyed peas, diced tomatoes, and rice.

Rice Cooker Sausage Jambalaya
I think using the rice cooker for an all-in-one meal is so cool!!
Rice Cooker Sausage Jambalaya - An easy one pot rice dish filled with sausage and black-eyed peas. It only has 5 ingredients!

 

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I am a wife to an awesome husband, mother of four great kids, and a middle school math teacher. I love collecting recipes and cookbooks! Being able to share the things I make with others is so much fun for me. I have gotten so many cookbooks and torn so many recipes out of magazines! This is my way to really make use of them. I am starting this blog as a way to chronicle the recipes I’ve tried and pass them along. I hope everyone enjoys!!!
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White Chicken Enchilada Pasta - A delicious pasta filled with all the wonderful flavor of white chicken enchiladas with the help of green chilies, a little sour cream, and melted jack cheese.

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