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A picture showing 3/4 of butterscotch monkey bread sitting on a white plate.

Overnight Butterscotch Monkey Bread

A corner of a glass dish holding Seven Layer Dip

Ultimate Seven Layer Bean Dip

A white bowl of chipotle chicken with lettuce, corn, Pico de Gallo, black beans and shredded cheese. There's a fork getting ready to lift a bite out from the left side of the bowl. At the top of the photo in the background there's a clear cup of dressing and part of a sheet pan with cut up chicken.

Copycat Chipotle Chicken

A glass bowl filled to the top with Pico de Gallo with the handle of a spoon sticking out of it.

Copycat Chipotle Pico de Gallo

A white scalloped bowl holding Instant Pot black beans with cilantro on top

Instant Pot Black Beans

Chipotle cilantro lime rice in a metal pot with a few cilantro leaves on the top in the middle with a metal spoon partially sticking out of the rice.

Copycat Chipotle Cilantro Lime Rice

Beef Barbacoa topped on white rice with black beans, pico de Gallo, shredded white cheese, guacamole and sour cream on top of the beef, all in a paper bowl with a black plastic spoon inserted into the dish on the left side. There's a partial picture of a grey cloth napkin in the upper left corner.

Copycat Chipotle Beef Barbacoa

Ecuadorian Yellow Rice

Ecuadorian Yellow Rice

Authentic carne asada with a side of ecuadorian lentil soup and ecuadorian yellow rice on a blue plate.

Authentic Carne Asada

a blue plate holding a serving of ecuadorian lentil stew, carne asada, and ecuadorian yellow rice and a slice of lime

Ecuadorian Lentil Stew

A large yellow cloth napkin wrapped around the left and top side of a blue plate with a serving of baked chicken pasta and a couple of slices of French bread. A fork is sitting on the napkin on the left side of the plate.

Baked Chicken Feta Tomato Pasta

A slice of chocolate Oreo cake sitting on top of two small white plates. In the background, there are two more servings of cake on white plates. Oreos are scattered around all the plates.

Oreo Poke Cake

Romain lettuce and chicken casserole sitting on a light-blue plate with a picture of a fork handle in the right-hand corner. At the top in the background, there's a partial picture of a beige cloth napkin.

Chicken Cordon Bleu Stuffing Casserole

Baked Parmesan Chicken

A blue plate with half baked ziti and half green salad on a yellow tablecloth with a silver fork to the left

Baked Ziti Recipe

Cheesy beef taco pasta sitting on a blue plate with a salad with chopped tomatoes and a yellow cloth napkin in the background on the left side wrapping partly around the top of the plate.

Instant Pot Cheesy Beef Taco Pasta

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