Easy Recipes
Quick, delicious, and fuss-free recipes for any meal. This board is packed with easy recipes for busy days, lazy nights, and everything in between. From 30-minute meals to one-pot wonders, discover simple, tasty dishes that anyone can make. Perfect for beginners, busy families, and meal preppers. Let’s make cooking effortless and fun with these best quick dinner ideas. | Alexandra's Kitchen
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No-Knead Soft Sandwich Bread, for sandwiches, toast, and beyond 🍞🍞🥪🥪🎉🎉 Friends, I’ve been making some sort of variation of this bread for about a year now. I’ve used olive oil in place of butter, all water, all milk, a little honey, a little sugar, and my family’s favorite version for sandwiches is this one, which calls for equal parts by weight milk and water, no sweetener, and melted butter 👍👍 It’s soft and sturdy, nicely sweetened but not sweet at all 🍞🍞 It takes no time to stir tog...
Alexandra Stafford | Alexandra's Kitchen
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Slow Cooker Black Beans: a year round favorite for bowls and salads and tacos of all kinds 🎉🎉 This is my favorite way to cook beans — I use the same method for chickpeas, too — for its ease and for the delicious, perfectly cooked and seasoned beans that emerge from the pot 💯 The recipe is linked in profile or search “slow cooker black beans” on alexandracooks.com 👍 Happy New Year Friends! #beans
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For all of your winter salad needs: blood orange vinaigrette 🍊🍊🍊 This is such a fast dressing to whisk together and so tasty too, thanks to the freshly squeezed juice, which adds such a brightness, sweetness, and tartness all at once 💯💯 Friends, I’ve been in such a cooking rut. What on earth are you all cooking? And loving? Please share 🙏🙏 Any comment below will get the recipe sent to your DMs. #blood #orange #vinaigrette #simple
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Stromboli! For all of your super bowl entertaining needs and beyond 🏈🏈 Since discovering how easy it is to make stromboli, it has become a favorite for entertaining and for simple family weekend meals 👍 Any comment below will get the recipe sent to your DMs. The spinach variation is linked in the pepperoni stromboli post as well 🤗 ALSO AND IMPORTANTLY: Stromboli is a Philadelphia invention. Go Birds!!! 🦅🦅 #stromboli #flyeaglesfly #gobirds
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Haven’t made this one in ages and have forgotten how much I love it: roasted mushroom polenta bake 🍄🍄 The recipe comes from @lukasvolger ‘s Start Simple, and it has been a longtime favorite for its simplicity and deliciousness 💯💯 The recipe is linked in profile 🤗 or search “roasted mushroom polenta bake” on alexandracooks.com #mushroom #polenta #heave
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Friends! Hello. It’s been a million years. Here’s my latest obsession: an herby, tabbouleh-inspired chickpea salad to make all summer long 🍅🥒🧅🥗 Any comment will get the recipe sent to your DMs 🤗 I hope all is well 👋💕 #chickpea #salad #summer
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One-Bowl Orange-Ricotta Pound Cake: a long-time favorite, perfect for all of your entertaining needs 🍊🍊🎉🎉 Hadn’t made this one in ages and forgot how good it is — it is so incredibly moist thanks to both olive oil and ricotta, and the flavor of the orange permeates every bite 👍👍 Any comment below will get the recipe send to your DMs 🤗 I’ve linked to both the loaf pan and the instant read thermometer (very reasonably priced) in the recipe 🎉 #onebowl #orange #ricotta #poundcake
Alexandra Stafford | Alexandra's Kitchen
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It’s Pie Time 🎉🎉🎉🥧🥧🥧 Or almost anyway. If you’re making pie for Thanksgiving, at some point in the next few days, you should parbake your pie crust ✅ Comment “pie” to have the recipe sent to your DMs 🤗 This recipe includes both the pie dough recipe and this parbaking method 👍 I hope all of your holiday prep is going well. Good luck 💪💪💪 #pie #thanksgiving
Alexandra Stafford | Alexandra's Kitchen
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Do this today, thank yourself all week long 🎉🎉🎉🎉 I have been making these overnight chia oats (adapted from my friend @serenagwolf ‘s recipe) for a couple of years now but only recently have I started making them in individual portions and it’s been kind of game changing — my kids love them, I love them, and it is so nice having a stash on hand ready to grab and go 🤗 Any comment below will have the recipe sent to your DMs 👇 If you have any overnight oat tricks or variations to share, p...
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Hadn’t made it ages! @jimlaheyssb ‘s bread continues to feel like a miracle: crusty, light, airy, all for what feels like impossibly little effort 🍞🍞🎉🎉 If you’ve ever spent time toiling over a loaf of sourdough bread, this recipe will feel like a breath of fresh air 💯💯 Volume measurements are given in the recipe 🤗 Any comment below will send the recipe to your DMs 👇 Happy Baking 👋👋 #bread #noknead #jimlahey
Alexandra Stafford | Alexandra's Kitchen
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Friends! 🍕🍕 My pizza oven has been covered in snow for weeks. But that doesn’t mean I haven’t been making pizza every Friday. Here are 5 tips for making excellent pizza at home 🍕🍕 Any comment below will get you a link to the dough recipe + 5 more tips👇 5 Tips for Making Excellent Pizza in Your Home Oven: 1. 𝐔𝐬𝐞 𝐚 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡-𝐇𝐲𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡: In order for your dough not to dry out in your home oven, which likely will not get above 550ºF, you need to use a dough with a lot of water in it. Conver...
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Vegetarian Layered Tortilla Casserole
Here's a great late-summer, early fall vegetarian entrée. It's a layering of enchilada sauce, tortillas, sautéed summer vegetables, herbs, and Monterey Jack cheese. The key? The homemade enchilada sauce, which takes 15 minutes to make and is so, so tasty. | Alexandra's Kitchen #tortilla #casserole #vegetarian #dinner #alexandraskitchen
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I’m done! Handing this account over to my 9-yr old! It’s been real, Friends 👋👋✌️✌️ Kidding, kidding. True story: over winter break, my 9-yr old asked if she could make a grilled cheese, and I said yes. I was doing laundry in the basement, and when she was done, she came down to show me her creation, which truly looked as though it had been thrown in a campfire 🔥 It was time for a little lesson 🥪🥪 3 Grilled Cheese Tips: 1. Use some mayonnaise on the bread. You can actually use...
Alexandra Stafford | Alexandra's Kitchen
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My Mother’s Pumpkin Bread — a favorite this time of year and beyond 🎃🍞🎉 This is truly one of the easiest recipes I make, and it is always met with rave reviews. It’s perfectly seasoned, perfectly sweet, perfectly moist (😩). Comment “pumpkin” to have a link to the recipe sent to your DMs 🤗 Metric measurements are given in the recipe 🤩 #perfect #pumpkin #bread
Alexandra Stafford | Alexandra's Kitchen
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Long Weekend Project: Make Your Pie Dough 🎉🎉 Friends, it’s not too early! This is my favorite, foolproof method, which I learned from a French woman many years ago @califrenchcuisine 🙏🙏🥧🥧💕💕 Comment “pie dough” below to have the recipe sent to your DMs 🤩 Towels are from @dotandarmy 💯 #pie #thanksgiving #dough
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