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Two egg rolls, sweet chili sauce, and a serving of fried rice on a plate.

Dhiana’s Indonesian Egg Rolls

The corner of a dark blue Polish pottery 9x13 dish filled with Easy Baked Tortellini Casserole.

Easy Baked Tortellini Casserole

A dark blue plate with a swirled pattern with a serving of turkey breast topped with gravy, a serving of mashed potatoes and gravy and stuffing.

Instant Pot Turkey Breast

Three fajita stuffed sweet potatoes sitting in a glass 9x13 baking dish topped with melted cheese and sliced green onions with melted cheese surrounding the bottoms of the sweet potatoes.

Fajita Stuffed Sweet Potatoes

A dark blue, white polka dotted Polish pottery soup bowl of beef barley soup with a spoon inserted in the soup resting on the edge. A pot holder is laying on the right of the bowl.

The Best Beef Barley Soup

A corner of a glass 9x13 baking dish of unstuffed pepper meatloaf casserole with a scoop taken out of the corner.

Unstuffed Pepper Meatloaf Casserole

7-photo picture collage of cream potato and ham soup, Lion House rolls, chicken sheet pan fajitas, chicken quinoa bowl, chicken tetrazzini, creamy pasta skillet with kielbasa, and asian chicken lettuce wraps.

2023 Readers’ Favorite Dinner Recipes

A bowl of red lentil curry soup with a spoon on the left side of the bowl.

Red Lentil Curry Soup

A bowl filled with quinoa, roasted corn, zucchini, chopped sweet potato and spinach topped with feta cheese, half an hard-boiled egg, chickpeas, and balsamic dressing.

Sweet Potato Quinoa Bowls

A slow cooker full of copycat cafe rio shredded chicken.

Copycat Cafe Rio Shredded Chicken

A partial picture of lemon chicken pasta in a black skillet.

Lemon Chicken Pasta

A partial photo of classic cheeseburger pie in a deep-dish pie pan with a slice taken out.

Classic Cheeseburger Pie

A glass pie dish of South of the border pie with cherry tomatoes scattered on the right and the left and the head of a pie server in the upper left corner.

South of the Border Pie

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Real Life Dinner 10 Year Anniversary! {Giveaway}

Three crescent dough pizza pockets sitting on a dark blue plate with white polka dots.

Easy Homemade Pizza Pockets

5-photo picture collage of sliced zucchini bread, a serving of zucchini skillet on a blue plate, lasagna, lemon zucchini bundt cake, and chocolate zucchini muffins with the text of the title overlaying in the middle.

30+ Zucchini Season Recipes

A serving of chicken buffalo pasta topped with sliced green onions in a white polka dotted and dark blue Polish pottery bowl. Faded on the right is a metal fork.

Instant Pot Buffalo Chicken Pasta

Roasted red pepper lasagna in a dark blue rectangle Polish pottery baking dish.

Roasted Red Pepper Lasagna

A Polish pottery style serving bowl filled with Bruschetta Pasta Salad.

Bruschetta Pasta Salad

Sheet pan Hawaiian pork bowl with chopped red cabbage served over coconut rice.

Sheet Pan Hawaiian Pork Bowls

A rectangle slice of meatloaf with a fork angled from the left inserted into a corner of the meatloaf sitting on a plate with a cut open baked potato and a serving of green peas.

The Best Slow Cooker Meatloaf