Main Dish Recipes

Rice meatloaf swaps breadcrumbs for raw converted rice, blending ground beef and pork with milk, eggs, ketchup, Worcestershire, marjoram and thyme. Moist, hearty, and budget-friendly.

Classic Aussie battered saveloys on a stick, double-dipped and deep-fried until golden and crunchy. Just like the fish and chip shop, this easy 15-minute recipe brings the carnival home.

5 alarm chili for serious heat-seekers: layered with jalapeno, serrano, scotch bonnet, chipotle, and pasilla chiles over slow-simmered beans and meat. A deep, smoky, blistering bowl of fire.

Italian pasta Carbonara for two using 6 simple ingredients and perfectly sized for two servings. Best of all this can be served in about 20 minutes.

Instead of frozen veggies we used fresh broccoli and cauliflower and steamed them part way. We also used swiss cheese instead of cheddar and the results were surprisingly good.

This is one of our favorites. I add more lemon (yes, with the rind!). It's sooo good! Not bitter. I looked online to find it because I misplaced my "Award winning recipes" cookbook in the move. I use vinegar instead of wine (about half the amount) because we don't stock wine.

Don't feel like cooking up a storm in the kitchen. This easy recipe fits your busy schedule, and you will be pleased by the tasty and wholesome result. Use whole wheat pasta to boost the fibre intake.

Broiled venison steaks basted in a savory butter sauce with steak sauce and Worcestershire. A quick 30-minute wild game dinner that brings out the rich, earthy flavor of deer meat.

A stove-top beef stew recipe. Nothing beats a hearty, savory beef stew that warms you up a cold day and satisfies your hunger.

Why ordering take-out, if you can make a delicious beef and bok-choy stir-fry within no time.

Butterfly shrimp wrapped with bacon, dipped in egg, and pan-fried golden, served on stir-fried onions and finished with a tangy ketchup-garlic sweet-and-sour sauce. A retro Chinese-American classic.

Imperial chicken with garlic-butter dipped pieces coated in Parmesan-parsley breadcrumbs and oven-baked until golden and crisp. Five-ingredient family dinner kids actually request.

Affectionately dubbed "Papa's Ground Beef Casserole." This ground beef casserole with pasta is super easy to make using your slow cooker or Crockpot. A staple in our home and didn't last very long.

Bring memories of Graceland into your kitchen with this savory dish that can even satisfy the hunger of "The King".

The other day while we were watching Gordon Ramsay's Hell's Kitchen, chefs were making flatbread, basically like pizza, just different shape, which really made my craving for pizza come back to life. Then start making this sun-dried tomato, olive and basil pesto flatbread, and it was so good...

Certainly a quick, easy yet tasty week-night meal. I used sugar snap peas instead of snow peas, the sauce was thickened during the simmering, then coated vegetables and pasta. Delicious.