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Crockpot Cabbage and Beef Stew

December 16, 2021 by overtimecook 7 Comments

Crockpot Cabbage and Beef Stew is a quick and easy comfort food dish that comes together in minutes and cooks in your crockpot as you go about your day!   Do you receive the Overtime Cook email newsletter? It’s full of recipes, kitchen tips, menus and more! Click here to sign up. There's really nothing quite like a crockpot dinner to make me feel like I've got my life together. No matter how tired I am after my work day, no matter if the house is flying, dinner is ready when I'm ready for it, and I don't need to do anything. The fact that the house will smell amazing when you arrive home (or all day, if you work from home like I do!) is just a nice big bonus!  This … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Holiday, Main Courses, Meat, Passover, Passover, Soups, Sukkos, Weeknight Dinner Tagged With: Beef, crockpot, dinner, easy recipe, Meat, Passover, pesach, recipe, stew

Shawarma Meat Pizza + 20 Quick and Easy Dinner Recipes

October 6, 2021 by overtimecook 2 Comments

Shawarma Meat Pizza isn't just an easy dinner recipe - it's a meal in one that's versatile and a kid pleaser! Do you receive the Overtime Cook email newsletter? It’s full of recipes, kitchen tips, menus and more! Click here to sign up. I polled my Instagram followers recently (if you aren't following yet, get on that!), asking what kind of recipes they're looking for now that the Jewish holidays are in the rear-view mirror and there's just a long winter ahead of us. And, unsurprisingly, the number one answer, from about 75% of you, was....all in one meals. I mean, who doesn't love a sheet pan dinner, a one pot strew, or some kind of bowl with everything all together in one? When … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Freezer-Friendly, Main Courses, Meat, Super-Easy, Weeknight Dinner Tagged With: best recipes, easy dinners, meal in one, Meat, pizza, salad

Cheesy Avocado Lasagna Roll Ups

July 14, 2021 by overtimecook Leave a Comment

Cheesy Avocado Lasagna Roll Ups are a delicious and filling vegetarian dinner that the whole family will love. Do you receive the Overtime Cook email newsletter? It’s full of recipes, kitchen tips, menus and more! Click here to sign up. Its the 9 days this week - a period of mourning in the Jewish Calendar when we don't do a number of things, including drinking wine and eating meat. For someone like me, who doesn't like fish, this can be a really tricky time to eat wholesome and filling meals. People often turn to pasta and pizza for the week, but many such dishes are very high in calories, full of heavy cream and similar products. While I love a good penne a la vodka or fettuccini … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Appetizers, Dairy, Freezer-Friendly, Hanukkah, Holiday, Main Courses, Pasta, Shavuot, Vegetarian, Weeknight Dinner Tagged With: 9 days, avocado, cheese, cheesy, dairy, dinner, lasagna, meatless, pasta, Recipes, shavuos, vegetarian

Honey Bourbon Steak Skewers

June 30, 2021 by overtimecook 2 Comments

Honey Bourbon Steak Skewers are bursting with flavor! Perfect for summer grilling or any day of the year! Do you receive the Overtime Cook email newsletter? It’s full of recipes, kitchen tips and more! Click here to sign up. When I posted last summer about getting married, there was one funny question that people asked me over and over again. They wanted to know what the first food I had cooked for my husband was. So many people were curious about this! I guess first impressions are a big deal, huh? Well, luckily I made a really good first impression on my husband when it came to food. You know how I know? The first meal I ever cooked for him consisted of these Honey Bourbon Steak … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Appetizers, Grilling, Hanukkah, Holiday, Main Courses, Meat, purim, Rosh Hashanah, Seasonal, Sukkos, Weeknight Dinner Tagged With: Appetizers, barbe, bourbon, grilled, Honey, mains, Meat, shabbos food, shabbos lunch, skewers, steak, summ, summer

Caramelized Onion and Cheese Manicotti from More Real Life Kosher Cooking

May 6, 2021 by overtimecook Leave a Comment

Caramelized Onion and Cheese Manicotti is a fabulous cheesy pasta dish that the whole family will love! Do you receive the Overtime Cook newsletter? It’s full of recipes, kitchen tips and more! Click here to sign up. While looking through this blog's archives, trying to serve up some shavuos menu ideas, I came to a realization: I don't share nearly enough dairy meal ideas here on this blog. To remedy that, I immediately got to work developing a brand-new dairy main dish idea. But until that one makes an appearance (stay tuned!) I've got a shavuos gift to all of you in the form of an incredible cheesy pasta recipe from my most recent cookbook, More Real Life Kosher Cooking. If you … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Dairy, Main Courses, Pasta, Shavuot, Weeknight Dinner Tagged With: cheese, dairy, dinner, er, Holiday, manicotti, pasta, shavuos, Shavuot

Quick and Easy Chicken and Pea Stew

March 2, 2021 by overtimecook 3 Comments

Quick and Easy Chicken and Pea Stew is a comfort food dish that takes just 20 minutes to prepare! Do you receive the Overtime Cook newsletter? It’s full of recipes, kitchen tips and more! Click here to sign up. The weather here on the east coast seems to finally be turning warmer. The snow is (almost) completely melted where I live, and it does seem like spring is finally around the bend! But. That doesn't stop me from craving comfort food. All. The. Time. And let me tell you my friends - this quick and easy chicken and pea stew is among the most comforting dishes that you'll make. And the best part? It actually comes together in about 15 minutes - no jokes! I started making this … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Chicken, Healthy, Holiday, Main Courses, purim, Rosh Hashanah, Sukkos, Super-Easy, Vegetables, Weeknight Dinner Tagged With: chicken, chicken cutlets, dinner, easy dinners, peas, quick and easy, Recipes, stovetop mains

Crockpot Meatballs in Zucchini Tomato Sauce

January 25, 2021 by overtimecook 5 Comments

Crockpot Meatballs in Zucchini Tomato Sauce is the family-friendly and super easy dinner recipe that your family will love!   Do you receive the Overtime Cook newsletter? It’s full of recipes, kitchen tips and more! Click here to sign up. There's something about crockpot dinners that really just makes me feel like I have my life together, ya know? It doesn't matter what's going on in my life -  my house might be messy and I might have deadlines piling up and chores to run, and things to do. When I make dinner in the crockpot, so it's morning and dinner is out of the way, it really makes me feel like I conquered something, and now I can conquer the world.  Do you feel the same? Do … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Freezer-Friendly, Healthy, Main Courses, Meat, Weeknight Dinner Tagged With: crockpot, dinner, Easy Recipes, meatballs, Zucchini

Beef and Broccoli Soup

November 4, 2020 by overtimecook 14 Comments

Beef and Broccoli Soup is a meal-in-one take on a Chinese restaurant classic that your whole family will love! Do you receive the Overtime Cook newsletter? It’s full of recipes, kitchen tips and more! Click here to sign up. There are certain dishes that I'll reliably order every time I see it on the menu. I mean, I'm not proud of this. I also want to branch out, and I often do, but I see certain menu items and I *need* to have them. For example, if I see beer battered onion rings on a restaurant menu, I need to taste them. Sometimes they're massively disappointing, but occasionally they're really great and I'll always take that chance. Then, there's beef and broccoli. Every time I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Main Courses, Meat, Soups, Super-Easy, Weeknight Dinner Tagged With: Beef, Broccoli, chinese food, dinner, meal in one

Mushroom Barley Chicken Soup

March 18, 2020 by overtimecook 5 Comments

Slow cooked chicken soup combines with hearty mushroom barley to make this instant favorite: Mushroom Barley Chicken Soup! Do you receive the Overtime Cook newsletter? It’s full of recipes, kitchen tips and more! Click here to sign up. Let's talk about comfort food, shall we? But first, let me tell you guys a little story about how I couldn't make up my mind, and that led me to create one of my new favorite soups, ever. In general, I hate making decisions. Ask me where I want to go for dinner, and the answer will always be "I don't care as long as I don't have to choose." No jokes. I'm indecisive and it's not usually a good thing. But recently, it came in pretty handy. I was … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Freezer-Friendly, Hanukkah, Healthy, Holiday, purim, Soups, Sukkos, Weeknight Dinner Tagged With: barley, chicken, chicken soup, comfort food, healthy recipe, mushroom, recipe, soup

Three Easy Meat Pizza Recipes

March 8, 2020 by overtimecook 12 Comments

Wow your guests with these Three Easy Meat Pizza Recipes! Do you receive the Overtime Cook newsletter? It’s full of recipes, kitchen tips and more! Click here to sign up. I'm going to keep this post short, because the food will do all the talkin' here! I feel a little guilty for not sharing these recipes sooner, but better safe than sorry, right? A couple of years ago, I hosted my entire family for a grand shabbos lunch, in honor of my father's birthday. You can probably imagine that I had a ton of food, and a gazillion different dishes. But there was one dish that absolutely stole the show: My Barbecue Beef Pizza. It was so popular, it was actually gone before I finished bringing … [Read more...]

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