Good everyday recipes to make and enjoy!
Dinner Ideas and Side Dishes
Welcome to our Easy Diner Ideas and Side Dishes recipe page. Here you will find ideas for easy family dinner recipes. This is an ever-growing collection of easy cooking recipes for beginners and intermediate cooks. You will find cheap easy meals on a budget that are healthy (and some not so healthy) listed below.
Homemade Hawaiian dinner rolls are soft, sweet and golden brown. They are great as a side for any dinner and perfect for making burgers and sliders. Made with yeast these fragrant and pillowy dinner buns will keep them coming back for more.
After a simple recipe for smothered pork chops? Make this 3 ingredient crock pot pork chops recipe. It’s the easiest recipe ever! Delicious and full of flavour this dish is slow cooked for hours. No one would ever guess that you spent less than 10 minutes putting together.
Looking for a healthy and guilt-free dinner recipe? Make the most of your slow cooker and cook this Hungarian Goulash. It is an easy and economical dish made with gravy beef and plenty of vegetables.
This is the easiest recipe for pizza dough you will ever make! You would never guess that with just 5 simple ingredients you could make something this good. It’s thin, crisp and a little chewy!
This easy potato soup is healthy and gluten-free! You only need 4 ingredients to make this and it’s cheap to make too.
Make delicious Mexican pork carnitas, using this slow cooker pulled pork with beer recipe. Make it for family dinners or to feed a crowd. This recipe is surprisingly easy to make and takes less than 10 minutes to prepare.
This easy black bean and corn salad that can be put together in less than 10 minutes. Made with a mix of canned and fresh vegetables this is the perfect side dish for any meal.
Looking for something different for lunch? Make this Cornish pasties recipe! Made with a filling of well-seasoned steak and vegetables in a homemade pastry, you won’t need anything else for lunch and they can be eaten hot or cold.
Slow cooker Boston baked beans! With a thick and slightly spice sauce these homemade baked beans are quick to prepare. Equally great with fresh bread, toast and grilled meat.
If you want a delicious meal with very little effort! Make this slow cooker beef stroganoff with mushrooms. With tender juicy chunks of meat in a rich and creamy sauce this dish is full of flavour.
Have a go at baking your own bread from scratch with this easy spinach feta bread. It’s delicious served with soup or just spread with a little butter. The dough is easy to make in the bread machine, then with a little shaping this delicious bread is oven baked.
A delicious and easy soup, this split pea soup with sausage makes a wonderful hearty meal on cold winter evenings.
This easy marinara sauce is rich in flavour and quick to make – and it’s made with just a few simple ingredients. Very little preparation and some time to simmer this recipe is a keeper.
This page is full of pita bread ideas including how to store pita bread, how to keep it fresh, how to open pita pockets without tearing, tips for filling pita bread and much more.
You will also find links to some great recipes for delicious pita pocket sandwiches and wraps, pita pizzas and homemade pita chips.
Try this easy homemade pita bread. It’s so simple and quick to make, and delicious hot straight from the oven. The texture of this bread is light and soft, making it perfect for your favourite sandwich filling. Make them in any size you want. Then create fresh pocket sandwiches or make delicious hot sandwiches using your sandwich press.
Make these sweet corn fritters any time of the year using canned corn. It’s fast to make, fairly healthy and can be eaten as part of a main meal or snack. These corn fritters are peppered with soft juicy corn kernels and chives, moistened with cream corn and eggs making them light and soft.
A homemade soft flour tortilla recipe that is easy to make and tastes so good. These flour tortillas are so soft and buttery, making them an ideal base for many dishes.
These soft flour tortillas are simple to make using plain flour, butter, salt, baking powder, and water. Once you know how to make these, you will never want store-bought again.
25 quesadilla filling ideas for quick and easy dinners or lunches. They are tasty, delicious and can be made in next to no time. You will find a variety of filling ideas, from light and healthy, to rich and hearty, and savoury or sweet. You can make these quickly using store bought wrappers, or make them from scratch using homemade tortilla wrappers.
This is the best bread machine white bread ever! It’s soft, crusty and requires very little effort to prepare. Make this one loaf bread recipe and enjoy the warm and inviting smells of fresh homemade baked bread. With a preparation time of less than 5 minutes, it is the perfect beginner bread recipe, that can be baked in the bread maker or oven.
Try this classic quiche Lorraine recipe it’s a simple cheese and bacon quiche that’s full of flavour and very easy to make. With a homemade shortcrust pie crust, is one of the best quiches you’ll ever taste or make.
Making this Korean ground beef rice bowl recipe is faster than ordering take-away and it’s much healthier too. Using lean ground beef and a few simple ingredients, you will have this on your dinner table in 15 minutes! Yes, it’s that easy!
Make this delicious beef and chilli bean today! Seasoned with fresh chilli, herbs and spices and loaded with tomatoes, capsicum, beans and ground beef. This is a soup that can be enjoyed any time.
Made with Mexican flavours, this beef and chilli bean soup can be enjoyed simply with pieces of fresh or toasted bread or served with corn chips, sour cream, cheese, a squeeze of lemon (or lime) juice and a sprinkling finely chopped coriander.
Make the best slow cooker meatballs in tomato sauce with this recipe. These homemade ground beef meatballs are juicy, tender, and a little spicy. Made with freshly grated parmesan cheese, garlic, and red chillies, then slowly cooked in a tasty tomato, basil, and garlic sauce. These meatballs can be eaten as an appetiser, with spaghetti or made into a meatball sandwich.
This hamburger soup with macaroni is a quick and easy meal packed with vegetables, lean beef, diced tomatoes and macaroni. It can be made ahead of time, reheats well and can be frozen.
