5,207 ball recipes

Spam fajitas with seared canned pork, peppers, and onions tucked into warm flour tortillas with cheese, lettuce, and salsa. Pantry weeknight dinner ready in 25 minutes.

Stir-fried beef salad piles seared strips of round steak and crisp-tender vegetables over wilted fresh spinach for a warm, low-calorie main-dish salad. A high-protein dinner in 30 minutes of cook time.

Pizza soup with elbow macaroni, mushrooms, green peppers, tomato sauce, and melted mozzarella. All your favorite pizza flavors in a 40-minute weeknight bowl.

Oyster noodle casserole layers tender egg noodles and shucked oysters in a cayenne-spiked cream sauce, topped with buttery breadcrumbs. An old-fashioned coastal comfort bake.

Peanut butter steak casserole, an African-inspired beef and rice bake with creamy peanut butter, tomato sauce, and chunky vegetables. A pantry-friendly comfort dish with West African groundnut stew DNA.

Roasted eggplant and vegetable pate with charred eggplant, yellow peppers, ginger, jalapeno, cumin, and lime. A smoky vegan spread for crostini, crackers, or sandwich filling. Keeps a week.

Open-faced pita sandwich: vegetarian flatbread topped with sauteed carrots, zucchini, mushrooms, peppers, and tomato. Healthy low-calorie lunch under 25 minutes.

South American empanadas with a lard pastry and two filling options: spiced fruit dessert or savory beef carne in tomato sauce. Bake, fry, or grill.

Grilled summer vegetable soup pureed from charred tomatoes, zucchini, summer squash, peppers, and red onion. Vegan, gluten-free, served hot or cold.

Aunt Ann's white chili: a lean, quick white chicken chili of cubed chicken breast, beans, green chiles, onions, and bell pepper. Cooked in nonstick spray, simmered briefly, ready in 50 minutes.

Roasted vegetable soup with garlic blends caramelized eggplant, onions, peppers, tomatoes and roasted garlic into a velvety pureed base, finished with diced vegetables for texture. Vegetarian and full of smoky depth.

Loaded crock pot chili browns two pounds of lean ground beef, then slow-cooks it for 8 hours with chili beans, tomatoes, bell pepper, onion, celery, garlic, and a punchy blend of chili powder and cumin. Hands-off weeknight comfort.

Kid-friendly paella: chicken drumettes, bacon, saffron rice, and peas in a single pan. A gentler introduction to Spanish flavors that still delivers that signature golden, crackling bottom.

Smoked sausage and fruit kebobs thread smoky pork with pineapple, peaches, and green pepper, then glaze everything with apricot Dijon for a sweet-savory grill skewer ready in about 10 minutes on the coals.

Shrimp pilau folds Worcestershire-spiked shrimp, crispy bacon, sweet bell pepper, and celery into hot rice for a Lowcountry one-pot supper. Charleston coastal classic in 30 minutes.

Chicken chili con carne with ground chicken breast, kidney beans, sweet peppers, and crushed tomatoes, finished with melted Monterey Jack. A leaner, weeknight take on classic chili that simmers in one skillet.