Hearty Cowboy Soup is a hearty, affordable, bowl of comfort food full of healthy veggies, creamy beans, warm broth, and lean ground beef. Perfect for casual weeknight dinners, serving a crowd, or your next game-day event. Cowboy Stew Recipe This easy-to-make, one pot recipe is one of my favorites and I know you’ll love it too! …
Main Dishes
Main dishes sit front and center in terms of overall meal plans. Everything else, from appetizer to dessert, gets planned around the main course. Mains typically involve some type of protein, like beef, pork, or chicken.
Easy Main Dishes For Brunch, Lunch, And Dinner
The good news about main course is that is typically is actually one of the easier parts of a multi-course meal to prepare for. Meats can be broiled, boiled, baked, and fried, but you don’t have too much to deal with besides just the cooking technique.
However, mains can also mean mixed ingredient dishes like casseroles or stews and soups too.
In any event, the main point of the main course is to let the ingredient do the talking, not the technique.
Beef Main Dishes
Nothing heartier than a beef main course. Steaks, or fajitas, stews, or meatballs. Beef means everyone leaves the table full and satisfied.
Chicken Courses
Chicken is the go-to for diet conscious meals, and it also is cheaper than beef. So chicken makes a great budget friendly option for the main dishes. Also, chicken is just as versatile when it comes to ways to prepare it too.
Pork For the Main Dish
Pork, aka “the other white meat” has the meatier flavors similar to beef, but offers perhaps even more ways to use it based on the cut. Pork is also cheaper too like chicken, so it provides a great way to avoid shocks when you get up to the register.
Also, pork sausage offers a wonderfully versatile ingredient to work with as well for main dishes!
Vegetable Main Dishes
Of course, you don’t have to be a vegetarian to enjoy veggies as a main course either. Consider swapping a vegetable side with an animal main to enjoy a veggie main course sometimes too.
Santa Fe Soup is bursting with flavor and texture and is ready in less than 30 minutes! Hearty meat, beans, and tomatoes, simmered in a taco spiced broth makes a meal that the whole family will love! Santa Fe Soup Recipe This hearty soup is right up there on my list of favorite soups. I …
Let’s take a classic recipe and make it even better! This Crockpot Shepherds Pie is an easy way to enjoy hearty ground beef and tender veggies topped with cheesy mashed potatoes. Crockpot Shepherd’s Pie Recipe This is one of my favorite meals of all time. It has everything you could ask for: ground beef, vegetables, …
Skillet Shepherd’s Pie is a comforting meal perfect for any time of year. Tender ground beef and veggies in a rich and savory sauce, topped with fluffy mashed potatoes. It’s classic comfort food! Skillet Shepherd’s Pie Recipe When I am craving some comfort food after a long day, I always think of meat and potatoes. …
Stuffed Pepper Soup is a thick and easy soup full of flavors and colors. A bowl of this hearty soup has all the delicious flavors of traditional stuffed peppers but without all the fuss. Crockpot Stuffed Pepper Soup Recipe But the green ones are cheaper and more abundant because they don’t have to ripen as long, …
Easy American Goulash recipe is a simple skillet dinner that is flavor-packed and the perfect way to feed a crowd. A comforting budget-friendly dish full of hearty lean ground beef, spicy sausage, and tender elbow macaroni, all in a rich tomato broth. Serve with my traditional cast iron skillet cornbread for a perfect cold weather meal that is …
Hobo Stew is a hearty soup, made with budget friendly ingredients, that is versatile and feeds a crowd! Hobo Stew If you’ve heard of Hobo Packets, then you are in luck because I have a tasty twist on them! Those tasty, easy to prep, foil packets full of beef stew ingredients, that you cook over …
This creamy Tuscan Tortellini Soup is super easy to make, takes less than 30 minutes, and is full of rustic Italian flavors everyone will love! Perfect for stove top or make it even easier in a slow cooker. Tuscan Tortellini Soup Soup is such an easy meal to make and one of the best Italian soups that you will …
Dilly Bean Stew is a delicious soup, full of tender white beans, sweet onions, and tangy dill. A truly unique soup the whole family will love! Dilly Bean Stew Recipe This soup recipe is perfect for a chilly night. Full of tender beans, sweet onions, and tangy broth this soup will really brighten your day. …
Slow Cooker Crack Potato Soup is easy to throw together, the crock pot does all the work, and it’s loaded with flavor! Top with shredded cheese, green onions, and crispy bacon. What could be better? Crack Potato Soup Recipe When there is chilly weather or cold days I like to snuggle in my pajamas with …