1,524 night recipes

Pineapple Dream: light no-bake dessert mousse with pureed pineapple and cottage cheese set with gelatin, topped with toasted coconut. Tropical-tasting low-calorie treat for eight.

Easy bread machine oatmeal bread with a soft tender crumb and gentle nutty flavor from rolled oats. Eight ingredients, one bread machine, hands-free everyday sandwich loaf.

Four-ingredient garlic and white bean soup made entirely in the microwave. Eight cloves of mellowed garlic, creamy pureed beans, vegetable broth. High-fiber, low-fat, vegan.

Skinless Cornish hen halves basted with brandy, apple juice, and paprika, served over a cinnamon-scented wild rice pilaf with brandy-soaked raisins. Light, elegant, and feeds eight.

One-skillet chicken legs and Italian sausage browned and simmered with toasted rice, mushrooms, green peppers, and tomatoes in red wine. A rustic Italian rice dish that feeds eight.

Old-school stovetop fudge made with semisweet chips, German sweet chocolate, milk chocolate, marshmallow cream, and toasted nuts. Boil for exactly eight minutes and let the chocolate do the rest.

A rich soup with layers of earthy warm flavors. Maitake mushrooms (hen of the woods) are believed to have numerous medicinal properties and taste great.

SPAM strips sautéed with carrots, zucchini, onion, and garlic, then tossed with linguine, Parmesan, and a bright squeeze of lemon juice. A light, veggie-packed 30-minute pasta dinner for eight.

A set-it-and-forget-it slow cooker recipe with dried pinto beans, diced ham, carrots, celery, and a double-bouillon broth. Eight hours on low gives you thick, smoky, soul-warming beans.

Fresh clams steamed open with eight cloves of garlic, olive oil, white wine, chile pepper, and bread crumbs that thicken the broth into a scoopable sauce. Simple, rustic, and loaded with garlic.

Apple pie with sharp cheddar cheese baked into a cornmeal crust and finished with a woven lattice top. Eight cups of fresh apple, cinnamon, and a savory-sweet crust that sets this apart.

Sweet pickles brine cucumber chunks overnight, then bring them to a boil in apple cider vinegar with sugar, turmeric, mustard seed, allspice, and celery seed. Eight pints of golden, crunchy pickles by tomorrow.

Applesauce cinnamon bread for the bread machine, with buttermilk for tang and a full tablespoon of cinnamon for serious spice. An eight-ingredient yeast loaf that loads and starts in under 5 minutes.

Low and slow baby back ribs rubbed overnight and smoked for 5 hours with homemade BBQ sauce. Eight full racks feed a crowd and deliver that fall-off-the-bone tenderness every pitmaster chases.

Pepper's tuna casserole is a six-ingredient weeknight classic with egg noodles, water-packed tuna, onion, cream of mushroom soup, and a melty cheese top. Pantry-friendly comfort food.

Low-fat cranberry orange bran muffins with cinnamon and real cranberry sauce. Light, fiber-rich, and endlessly adaptable with banana-date, apple-raisin, and zucchini variations.