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A dinner bowl plate with three baby potatoes, chopped chicken and green beans with bacon bits.

Slow Cooker Country Chicken and Veggies

The corner of a baking sheet with parchment paper with a filet of sweet and smoky brown sugar salmon and a fork inserted into the salmon from the left.

Sweet and Smoky Brown Sugar Salmon

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

Red Lentil Curry Soup

A large bowl of cucumber feta salad with lemon.

Summer Cucumber Salad with Lemon and Feta

Mango Chopped Salad with Avocado Dressing in a white and blue-bubble patterned Polish pottery bowl.

Mango Chopped Salad with Cilantro Lime Avocado Dressing

A sheet pan placed horizontally with roasted sliced cabbage pieces with seasoning.

Roasted Cabbage Steaks

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

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

A pot of multicolored quinoa with a wooden cooking spoon on the right.

How to Make the Best Quinoa

simple weeknight meal of Chinese eggs and tomatoes served over rice

The Best Chinese Tomato and Eggs

Gingerbread baked oatmeal in a glass 8x8 dish on top of a small checked dish towel.

Gingerbread Baked Oatmeal

Roasted Parmesan Brussel Sprouts on a sheet pan.

Roasted Parmesan Brussels Sprouts

Delicious brownie baked oatmeal from viral video with the recipe

Brownie Baked Oatmeal

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

Ukrainian cabbage salad in a scalloped Polish pottery bowl with a wooden spoon inserted on the left.

Ukrainian Coleslaw

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