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Horizontal 6-photo picture collage of sheet pan fajitas, chili Mac, loaded pepper jack mack and cheese, South of the Border Pie with corn chips and a green salad, sloppy joes, and sausage and peppers with egg noodles. In the middle the words "35+ Back to School Dinners" are overlaid on the collage of photos.

35+ Back to School Dinners

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

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 slow cooker full of copycat cafe rio shredded chicken.

Copycat Cafe Rio Shredded Chicken

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

A $250 Amazon.com gift card.

Real Life Dinner 10 Year Anniversary! {Giveaway}

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 green salad with slice tomatoes and cucumbers with a scoop of Mexican chili chicken casserole, all on a dinner plate.

Mexican Chili Chicken Casserole

A dark blue patterned Polish pottery plate with tortilla chips, Spanish rice, and Mar's burrito with a bite taken out of it.

Mar’s Burritos

A bowl filled with quinoa, diced chicken taco meat, cucumbers, tomatoes, lettuce, black beans and topped with shredded cheese. On the left is a partial photo of chicken taco meat and a grey kitchen towel. On the right are two small glass bowls, one with chopped cucumber and the other with pico de Gallo.

Chicken Quinoa Burrito Bowls

Ground Beef Baked Taquitos on a baking sheet.

Ground Beef Baked Taquitos

plate of cheesy taco pasta casserole with a side salad on it.

Cheesy Taco Pasta Casserole

A peacock patterned Polish pottery bowl filled with cilantro lime rice, rotisserie chicken, diced cucumbers, avocado, red onion, and tomatoes with a dollop of chipotle sour cream. On the right of the bowl is a spoon.

Honey Lime Chicken Bowls with Rotisserie Chicken

A white and blue patterned Polish pottery bowl of Aji Picante. A hand is held above the bowl with a chip and some salsa on it.

Colombian Style Pico de Gallo {Aji Picante}

A serving of Zucchini and Beef Taco Skillet with tortilla chips on a blue plate. A fork is sitting on a grey cloth napkin on the left side of the plate.

Zucchini and Beef Taco Skillet

plate of nachos, the pate is blue with white dots. the nachos have chees, black beans, olives, tomatoes, shredded beef and jalapenos

Easy Mexican Shredded Beef

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