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Main Dish Recipes

Main dishes are - for obvious reason - the main attraction of any meal.  But that doesn't mean they have to be intimidating, or overly complex.

Here are the usual links to some of the superstars of my favorite main dish recipes.

Main dish recipes can be vegetarian like:

  • Easy Red Lentils and Rice - my absolute favorite comfort food and so easy to make.
  • Tofu Coconut Green Curry - Serious yum power
  • 13 Bean Soup - Simple, Affordable, Nourishing

My favorite main dish recipes that center around chicken, beef, pork, lamb, and seafood:

  • Buttery Shrimp with Worcestershire - not the easiest but definitely not the hardest but oh so worth it!
  • BBQ Oven Baked Beef Short Ribs - Takes a long time to cook but so easy to make!
  • Chicken and Stewed Tomatoes - Comfort food delishness.
  • My Mama's Homemade Pork Green Chili - So good the next day!
Cooked Pickled Shrimp with thin sliced onions In a blue bowl with a spoon sticking out. 2 wood bowls with small forks on the side. close up.

Lowcountry Quick Pickled Shrimp

White plate of romaine lettuce, chunked beets and chopped pecans with a white dressing and orange zest garnish. Wine glass filled with water in the back. Outside table.

Roasted Beet and Romaine Salad with Pecans

2 Pieces of Herbed Pork Tenderloin seared In A Cast Iron Skillet

Cast Iron Herbed Pork Tenderloin

Close up of white plate with chicken and noodles in an orange sauce with basil leaves on top.

Chicken with Creamy Tomato Sauce Pasta

Close up. Bowl of sliced sugar snap peas, orange peppers, red cabbage, and candy stripe beet . Large White bowl with a wooden spoon.

Sugar Snap Pea Slaw w/ Ume Plum Vinegar

Sheet pan lined with aluminum foil with cooked meatballs with basil on it. Top view.

Italian Pork Sausage Meatballs

Top down view of barbeque beef back ribs cut into individual ribs. Ribs laying on live edge wood cutting board with a chef's knife and white napkin in the background. Close up.

Easy Oven Baked Beef Back Ribs

Diced egg mixed with thyme, diced red onions, capers, and sliced chives on a bed of butter lettuce.

Simple Egg Salad with Thyme and Chives

2 white plates with salad with a grilled chicken breast on top with blueberry chutney on top of chicken. Whole Cherry Tomatoes on plates.

Chicken with Blueberry Chutney

Roast Salmon with Buttery Leeks On Top In a Stainless Steel Pan - Eat Simple Food

Roast Salmon with Buttery Leeks

quartered strawberries, chopped pecans, and crumbled goat cheese on arugula salad on a shallow bowl/plate.

Strawberry Arugula Salad with Goat Cheese

Falafels on a wood cutting board with a side plate of 2 falafels and a bowl of white cucumber tzatziki. side view.

Pan Fried Falafels with Canned Chickpeas

Shredded Mexican Spiced Pork On a Brown Plate with Wood Tongs and a Chopped Cilantro garnish.

Tender and Crispy Stovetop Pork Carnitas

Large white bowl of green creamy soup garnished with fresh peas and mint leaves. Small bowl of peas and 3 bowls in background.

Fresh Pea, Leek and Mint Soup

Seared chicken thighs with pearl onions and fresh tarragon with a light brown sauce in a large white bowl with a white napkin with an artichoke on it.

French Tarragon Chicken Thighs

Shrimp laying on top of farro, pistachios, and sliced radishes. Garnished with fresh green herbs, sliced green onions, and grated parmesan cheese.

Shrimp and Farro Salad

Diced Chicken In A Medium Brown Curry spiced Gravy over White Rice in A large shallow plate.

Indian Curry Chicken and Rice

Two shallow white bowls filled with chopped lettuce, sliced cucumbers, sliced radishes, , cherry tomato quarters and blue cheese and pecan crumbles. Two forks, two knives, and two white napkins on the side. Close up.

Chopped Romaine Lettuce And Chickpea Salad

3 pieces of poached salmon on a platter surrounded by asparagus, quartered cherry tomatoes, walnuts, and lemon slices. Topped with Tzatziki Sauce

Poached Salmon with Tzatziki Sauce

Sliced Cooked Rack Of Lamb Recipe on Live Edge Wood Cutting Board - Eat Simple Food

Rosemary Dijon Mustard Rack of Lamb

Diced and roasted Kabocha Squash with Peppers and leeks on a big white plate with a wood spoon. side view.

Kabocha Squash Breakfast Hash

Top down view of 6 browned lamb loin chops with thyme sprigs in a cast iron skillet.

Simple Seared and Baked Lamb Loin Chops

4 Chicken Breasts Stuffed With Feta and Spinach On A White Plate. Vertical view.

Feta and Spinach Stuffed Chicken Breast

Chicken, Ham, & Cheese Roulades (Rolls) sliced into rounds on a wood plate with roasted brussels sprouts.

Chicken, Ham, and Cheese Roulades

Small white bowl of creamy asparagus soup with asparagus tip garnish sticking out the top. Silver spoon in bowl. side view.

Asparagus And Leek Soup

Seared and thinly sliced pork tenderloin. Top view on a white plate with a sprig of rosemary in the background.

Balsamic Rosemary Pork Tenderloin

Top view of shallow bowl of beef shanks with marrow in an orange vegetable puree. Garnished with basil.

Osso Buco (Veal Shanks) in Vegetable Puree

White plate of Yellow/ Green Mung Beans (Lentils), over brown rice, garnished with red pepper flakes and green onions.

Easy Kitcheree (Kitchari Or Mung Beans)

Top view. White deep platter with 5 browned cooked chicken thighs on a bed of bright green peas and cooked peppers. Serving silverware on side.

Lemon Chili Chicken with Peas

White Bowl of farro, and edamame with a small bowl of toasted pine nuts and another small wood ball with a portion size of the dish topped with feta. side view.

Farro Salad with Edamame, Pine Nuts, Feta Cheese

White plate of seared slices of smoked sausage on a bed of vegetables or diced red peppers, onions, and zucchini. Silverware, napkins, plates in background. Close up.

Turkey Kielbasa, Onions, Peppers, and Zucchini

Halved Reuben Sandwich with pink corned beef, sauerkraut, melty swiss cheese with thousand islands dressing on a plate. Blue cup in background.

Reuben Sandwich Recipe

Close up of thin sliced pink corned beef on a wood cutting board.

Easy Crockpot Corned Beef and Cabbage

Cooked Soft boiled Egg Wrapped in Turkey, Coated With Panko, Baked And Cut In half on a plate.

Oven Baked Turkey Scotch Eggs

Creamy bowl of tan potato and leek soup on a white table with parsley garnish. top view.

Potato Leek Bisque / Soup

Beef, Carrots, Leeks, Potatoes cooked in a red dutch oven pot with a brown gravy. Top view.

Irish Beef and Stout Stew

Pork Chop with red Tomato Ginger Curry sauce on a white square plate with broccoli behind it.

Pork Chops with Tomato Ginger Curry

White shallow bowl of green/brown split pea soup with green parsley garnish. Spoon in the soup.

Vegetarian Split Pea Soup

White bowl of chicken thighs in a yellow sauce with tomatoes, onions, and capers. Yellow Rice in bowl on the side. Top view.

Turmeric Arroz con Pollo (Spanish Chicken and Rice)

Bouillabaisse (Fish or Seafood Stew) In a white bowl with clams, shrimp, and chunks of white fish in a yellow red delicate sauce.

French Bouillabaisse (Fish Stew / Soup)

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I’m Beckie Hemmerling. I love food and I think of it on a basic level of providing strength & nourishment. Cooking has helped me *try* to figure out life, not just my own, but also other people's. I have cooked through many joys / sorrows and cooking has always been a meditative place through these highs & lows. More background info →

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