Your evening meals just got easier with these delicious summer dinners you can make ahead of time. Each recipe is full of fresh produce like peppers, eggplant and more. Prep recipes like our Green Goddess Salad with Chickpeas and Grilled Lime Chicken & Steak with Herb & Arugula Salad so you can enjoy your summer evenings while still having a satisfying meal to end your day.

16 Summer Dinner Recipes to Make Ahead

There's always room for another easy chicken recipe on our table, and this garlic butter chicken is the new favorite. Ready in just 30 minutes, it features a garlicky, buttery pan sauce over chicken cutlets. We chose cutlets so they would cook faster in the skillet, but you could use thighs. Serve with asparagus, a fresh tomato-cucumber salad, or simple roasted potatoes for an easy weeknight dinner.

30-Minute Garlic Butter Chicken Is A New Dinner Favorite

Ever wondered how to cook the perfect steak every time? Let TastyBitesMike teach you how to make one that tastes just like the ones at your favorite steakhouse or maybe even better. Cooking steak at home is easy and cheap. Plus, it only requires a handful of ingredients and one pan. You only need sirloin steak, unsalted butter, garlic cloves, rosemary, salt, and black pepper.

How to Cook the Perfect Steak Every Time

Marinating steaks is a common step in many recipes, but it does test one's patience. Marinating takes at least a couple of hours and adds a lot of prep work to an otherwise simple piece of meat. Fortunately, it isn't always necessary. Marinades can bring tenderness, juiciness, and new levels of flavor to a steak, but sometimes, you don't actually need those things. Sometimes, a steak is tender, juicy, and flavorful enough all on its own.

3 Steak Cuts You Should Never Be Marinating

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Coconut shrimp is such a treat! It's sweet, savory, golden, crispy goodness is completely addicting. It checks off all the boxes for a great appetizer or the main star of the night. Start to finish, this only takes about 20-30 minutes. Here's what you need to make two servings:

Coconut Shrimp with Sweet Chili Sauce

The Foodie Fix

Lasagna is a beloved Italian dish that has found its way into kitchens around the world. Known for its layers of pasta, rich meat sauce, creamy béchamel, and melted cheese, lasagna is the epitome of comfort food.

Classic Homemade Lasagna: Comforting Layers of Meat, Cheese, and Pasta

The primary issue with most wedge salads is that there’s never enough bacon or dressing. Our test kitchen added extra bacon (it’s candied to boot), and every bite is boosted with a double coat of vinaigrette and Gorgonzola dolce to balance the meat and the sweet with the iceberg’s crispness.

Wedge Salad with Candied Bacon and Gorgonzola Dressing

Move over burrito bowls! You've been usurped by the new comfort food in town: the cornbread bowl. Basically, it's a bowl made of cornbread and stuffed to the brim with all the hot and savory foods you usually eat to warm up when the weather turns crisp. It's a comfort food container filled with down-home cookin'.

Ditch Your Burrito Bowl, Cornbread Bowls Are The Future Of Comfort Food

The flavor combos in this will blow your mind! At only 20 minutes from start to finish, that's a dinner winner in my book! Here's all you'll need to make it (4 servings):. 1 Tbl light soy sauce (I like Shoyu)

Garlic Shrimp with Browned Butter Honey Sauce

Are you looking for a quick and easy dish for tonight’s dinner? Try this sour cream beef noodle casserole from Southern Country Living on YouTube. This hearty and comforting dish takes under an hour to make, making it perfect for busy weeknights or potluck parties. In this tutorial, Southern...

Sour Cream Beef Noodle Casserole

Short ribs. While they aren’t as meaty or popular as something like a ribeye or a Porterhouse, these incredibly versatile ribs stand on their own as a star of the red meat world and can be grilled, braised, roasted, or prepared just about any other way you like. So...

And a recipe you'll be making over and over again this fall

I love a good cheesy and creamy squash casserole as much as the next person, but more often than not, I’m craving something that highlights the seasonal produce a bit more. With fewer ingredients and a little less dairy, this lightened-up take on a squash casserole is the dish I keep coming back to all summer long. It’s simple, easy, and comes together in just your cast-iron skillet.

Summer Squash Skillet Exactly How Mama Likes It

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Charles

Texas - When it comes to classic Texan comfort food, chicken fried steak holds a special place in the hearts (and stomachs) of many. This dish, characterized by its crispy, golden-brown crust and rich, creamy gravy, has become a staple in Texan cuisine. Here, we explore an authentic recipe for chicken fried steak that will bring the flavors of Texas straight to your kitchen.

Mastering the Art of Chicken Fried Steak: A Texas Tradition

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This copycat Olive Garden dish uses chicken instead of shrimp, making it even more of a favorite for anyone in the family. In less than thirty minutes, you will be out of the kitchen serving this over fresh angel hair pasta. Mucho bene!

Ditch The Shrimp: Copycat Olive Garden Chicken Scampi Pasta That Will Melt In Your Mouth

M Henderson

Here's another recipe for fudge that's very easy to make. You can double it, or quadruple it, for more servings. 4 tablespoons cocoa or cacao powder (I like 2 tablespoons of each)

3-Ingredient Fudge

Sanford, FL

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Soul food, a favorite from the South, is loved by many Floridians who used to live up North. Florida is home to popular soul food places like Seth's and Happy Soul. Unfortunately, another favorite, Angel's Soul Food in Sanford, has been closed after a state inspection.

Florida soul food restaurant found with debris, "Mold-Like" substance, and raw sewage on the floor

Claudia Lamascolo

This is a delicious steak/beef marinade that is terrific over rice, noodles, or even in a hard roll as a sandwich. The strips of beef are marinaded overnight and then baked, fried, or grilled to perfection.

Delicious Beef Marinade: Perfect for Quick Meals

New York City, NY

Oysters, bacon, and eggs — if that sounds like the perfect breakfast, then the Hangtown Fry is the dish you’ve been searching for. A regional specialty from California, this breakfast classic, tracing its lineage all the way back to the Gold Rush, is a favorite in countless West Coast restaurants. Serve it with a Bloody Mary, and you’ll have a celebratory breakfast to remember.

We interviewed a chef to break down this breakfast classic

Chicago, IL

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Shortly before 3 AM, people in the Chicago area may have felt their houses shake as a 3.4-magnitude earthquake occurred about 60 miles west of the city. (CHICAGO) The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported a 3.4-magnitude earthquake around Somonauk, IL. Somonauk is in DeKalb and LaSalle Counties, 64 miles west of Chicago.

Did You Feel the Earthquake?

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Plus, the best ingredients to use for the richest taste, per the former president

Jimmy Carter’s Favorite Recipe Was a Bowl of Southern, Creamy Cheese Grits: Get the Recipe

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Eat your steak dinner without the guilt with these healthy sides

A hearty steak dinner is one that we personally never get tired of. Not only is a steak dinner a great choice when you’re feeling something...

Eat your steak dinner without the guilt with these healthy sides

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