Make-Ahead

Delicious and easy-to-make Breakfast Taquitos filled with scrambled eggs, fully cooked sausage links, and melted cheese rolled in warm corn or flour tortillas. Perfect for a quick breakfast or brunch, these taquitos are baked until golden and crispy, with options for air frying and make-ahead preparations.

This flavorful chicken & rice bowl with stir-fried vegetables is a delicious combo of sweet and spicy flavors. It's also a great option for meal prep!

These Chipotle Queso Chicken Burritos offer 60 grams of protein each and taste like a cheat meal, making them a fantastic, macro-friendly meal prep option. They are super easy to make and can be reheated from frozen in just five minutes.

These cream cheese puff pastry Danish tarts are made with flaky puff pastry, a vanilla cream cheese filling, and fresh berries. Ready in under an hour with just a handful of ingredients, they are the perfect make-ahead brunch bake that looks far more impressive than the effort involved.

Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp Bars have a buttery oat crumble that doubles as the crust and topping, with a sweet-tart strawberry rhubarb filling in the middle. They’re easy to make ahead and a very good excuse to use fresh rhubarb while you can!

This keto chicken stir fry is made with lots of vegetables and prepared all in one pan. It's perfect for meal prep or as a quick and easy weeknight meal. The recipe has the most delicious sauce and is gluten free, dairy free, paleo, Whole30, and keto.

Delicious, healthy and make-ahead, this Fresh Corn Salad is perfect for picnics, parties and potlucks. Leftovers are wonderful for lunch and dinner salads.

A delicious, make ahead Fresh Corn Soup that's perfect as an appetizer soup and so wonderful for lunch or casual dinners!

This easy pickle dip recipe features chopped dill pickles in a creamy dip spiked with ranch seasoning. It’s tangy, briny, and easy to make ahead.

My friend Renee is a personal chef, and her lentil potato soup is always a hit with everyone who tries it. It has over 100 5-star reviews because who doesn't love a hearty, nutritious, flavor-packed meal that comes together in just 35 minutes.

💚🍋 There’s plenty of bold lime flavor in these EASY bars that are a twist on the classic pie everyone loves! This is the perfect make-ahead dessert for potlucks and parties! Light and fresh, tart yet sweet, and always a favorite!

Crockpot Alfredo Marinara Chicken Pasta! This easy recipe is SO delicious and perfect for a busy weeknight dinner or meal prep for the week.

Full of nubby oats and plenty of sweet raisins, these lightly spiced cookies are pleasingly chewy in the center and crisp around the edges, with a hint of butterscotch from the dark brown sugar. They keep really well, so you can make them up to a week in advance and store them in an airtight container at room temperature. They’re also great for mailing when a package of cookies is in order. Why You Should Trust This Recipe Melissa Clark, a food writer for more than 25 years, creates her fresh takes on classic recipes by trying at least half a dozen different approaches. A professional recipe tester then makes her recipe a minimum of three times (and sometimes more than 12) to ensure it’ll come out perfectly for all home cooks. For these cookies, Melissa achieved the ideal balance of chewy center and dark, crinkly edges by glossing the oats with brown sugar.

Looking for a quick, flavorful dinner that delivers comfort and bold taste in every bite? This One-Pan Bold Honey BBQ Chicken Rice is your new go-to for easy dinner ideas. Packed with juicy chicken, sweet and smoky BBQ sauce, and fluffy rice all cooked in one pan, it’s the ultimate easy recipe for busy weeknights. With minimal cleanup and maximum flavor, this dish makes a fantastic quick dinner or even a meal prep favorite. The aroma alone will have your family rushing to the table. Whether you’re looking for food ideas that are both practical and indulgent or a new healthy snack with a bit of a BBQ twist, this one checks all the boxes.

A chicken meatball served with pasta, broccoli, and a mixture of spaghetti and Alfredo sauces!

Chocolate lava cakes gained popularity in the late 1990s thanks to the chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten, and they have stuck around on dessert menus for good reason: They are rich chocolate cake and velvety sauce all in one, and they are surprisingly easy to make in under an hour. If you like to plan ahead, you can prepare the batter a day in advance, refrigerate it, then pop the cake into the oven when you are ready for dessert. This recipe, made in a 10-ounce baking dish, is meant for sharing, but you can also make it in two 6-ounce ramekins. Just cut the baking time to 7 to 9 minutes. Also, be sure to use chopped chocolate bars or chocolate fèves rather than chocolate chips here. Chips are made with stabilizers that inhibit melting and will negatively affect the texture of your dessert.

These easy, fun-to-make cookies taste and feel like you’re eating mint chip ice cream, thanks to the peppermint extract and its icy cooling effect. A crisp-tender sugar cookie base — made without a mixer — is topped with a layer of minty white chocolate that’s thinned out with olive oil. Dark chocolate shavings lend bitterness to balance the sweetness.

These wildly popular cookies were developed by Alison Roman for her cookbook, “Dining In: Highly Cookable Recipes.” “I’ve always found chocolate chip cookies to be deeply flawed (to know this about me explains a lot),” she writes. “Too sweet, too soft, or with too much chocolate, there’s a lot of room for improvement, if you ask me. But no one asked me, and rather than do a complete overhaul on the most iconic cookie known to man, I took all my favorite parts and invented something else entirely. Made with lots of salted butter (it has a slightly different flavor and a deeper saltiness than using just salt — I prefer unsalted butter everywhere else but here), the dough has just enough flour to hold it together and the right amount of light brown sugar to suggest a chocolate chip cookie.”

Brownies can be contentious. You may be an edge person or someone who loves middle pieces, a fudgy fanatic or a cakey purist. These cookies will please all brownie lovers, with chewy edges, tender centers and crunch from crushed peppermint candies. While any unsweetened cocoa powder will work in this recipe, Dutch-processed cocoa will make the cookies taste more chocolaty and round out their peppermint flavor. Whisking the eggs and sugars for a long time may seem fussy, but this process gives the cookie body, makes the batter easier to scoop and ensures a shiny top, the hallmark of any good brownie.

Delivering warmth from turmeric and brightness from lemon zest, these golden crinkled cookies feel (and look) like sunbeams breaking through clouds. Imagine powdered doughnuts run through with Fruit Loops cereal milk on a Saturday morning. In fact, these soft, crisp-edged cookies are lovely for breakfast, but don’t restrict their bright, sunny disposition to a specific time of day: Pair them with a glass of milk or cup of herbal tea, whether as an afternoon pick-me-up or a not-too-sweet finish to any meal.

Buckle up, because this slow cooker honey teriyaki chicken is about to take your taste buds on a wild ride! The tender, juicy chicken and the flavorful sauce are the perfect pairing. Gone are the days of boring meal prep!

This Asian Cabbage Soup with Ground Meat is a hearty, flavorful, and nutritious dish perfect for a comforting meal. Combining ground meat with fresh vegetables, garlic, ginger, and a tangy soy and rice vinegar broth, this soup blends savory and spicy notes in every spoonful. It's easy to customize with different meats or plant-based options and perfect for a quick weeknight dinner or meal prep.

This single-serve chicken pot pie recipe features a flaky, golden crust filled with a creamy mixture of chicken, vegetables, and savory seasonings.

This chicken and rice bowl is the perfect dish for summer. It combines sweet and spicy grilled chicken with sweet coconut rice, fresh mango salsa, and creamy avocado. Enjoy it as an easy dinner or perfect for meal prep. Gluten-free, dairy-free, and high protein.