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A dutch oven with sliced potatoes and onions sprinkled with cheese and bacon pieces with a serving spoon held above from the left with a scoop of dutch oven potatoes.

Oven Baked Dutch Oven Potatoes

The corner of a glass 9x13 dish filled with classic tuna casserole.

Classic Tuna Casserole

Rice topped with green curry with chicken and potatoes in a dark blue bowl with white polka dots with a blue dot in the middle. A spoon is on the left of the bowl.

Slow Cooker Green Curry with Chicken and Potatoes

A crockpot of shredded honey garlic chicken with two forks inserted into the chicken on the left.

Slow Cooker Honey Garlic Chicken

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

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

Easy Homemade Pizza Pockets

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

Several large Russet potatoes with fork holes and rubbed with olive oil and sprinkled with coarse sea salt in a glass baking dish.

How to Make the Perfect Baked Potato

A white and blue polka-dotted bowl filled with ham and lentil soup sitting on a large white polka-dotted blue plate with three bread sticks on the left of the bowl.

Ham Bone Lentil Soup

Slow cooker goulash in a white and dark blue bubble patterned Polish bowl with a cloth napkin and spoon on the left and a hard roll up in the right-hand corner.

The Best Slow Cooker Goulash

An egg, ham and potato burrito with a bite taken out on a blue dinner plate with sliced strawberries and orange slices.

Ham, Potato and Egg Breakfast Burritos

Bite-size chicken taco meat in a nonstick skillet with a wooden spatula inserted on the right.

Easy Skillet Chicken Taco Meat

simple weeknight meal of Chinese eggs and tomatoes served over rice

The Best Chinese Tomato and Eggs

A peacock patterned Polish pottery bowl of Spam and Rice with sriracha sauce, mayonnaise, and chopped green onions. On the left of the bowl is a spoon sitting on a striped kitchen towel.

Spam and Rice

A bowl of Thai basil chicken with rice and a spoon lying on a cloth napkin on the left of the bowl.

Amazing Thai Basil Chicken

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