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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 shrimp in a deep plate with halved cherry tomatoes and basil pesto. Garnished with Pine nuts.

Shrimp with Basil Pesto and Cherry Tomatoes

Cooked Chicken Thigh and Leg with A Brown Dry Rub On A white plate with a green salad and red tomato salad.

Dry Rubbed Oven Baked Chicken Leg Quarters (Drumsticks and Thighs)

Brown Roasted Chicken legs in a cilantro sauce in a blue baking dish. Close up. Side view.

Baked Thai Chicken Drumsticks

Tomato Tart with different sizes and colors of tomatoes on golden puff pastry with basil leaves and sliced basil garnish.

Easy Tomato Tart with Puff Pastry

Sliced Pork Tenderloin browned with cilantro garnish on a white plate with roasted sweet potato coins with sour cream and chives, tomato salsa, and cucumber salad

Seared Pork Tenderloin with Cumin and Lime

Cauliflower rice with whole cashews, raisins, carrots with curry and garnished with mint. White bowl with spoon. Side view.

Curry Cauliflower Rice with Cashews

Close up of wood bowl of cucumber soup with chunky cucumber and red onion garnish. White bowl of cucumber garnish on side.

Cold Cucumber Dill Soup

Top view of crispy browned bone in, skin on chicken thighs on a white plate on a white table.

Bone In Skin On Oven Roasted Chicken Thighs

3 Cooked Pan Fried Easy Crab Cakes Recipe On White Plates. Side View.

Perfect and Easy Crab Cakes

1 piece of cooked salmon topped with 3 lemon slices and chopped dill on a bed of asparagus.

Easy Oven Baked Lemon Dill Salmon

1 piece of salmon spiced with lime, paprika, and cumin on a bed of greens on a white plate

Salmon with Cumin, Paprika, and Lime

Seared piece of white fish and a bed of romaine lettuce with chunked yellow tomato and sliced basil salsa. White plate with knife and fork on the side.

Pan Seared Grouper with Tomato Basil Salsa

2 plates of swordfish garnished with chunks of peach and pecan salsa over a bed of romaine lettuce with cherry tomatoes. Close up.

Swordfish with Peach Pecan Salsa

Top view of a small white bowl of ceviche (diced white fish, red onions, yellow and red peppers, lime juice, and cilantro) with 3 crackers sticking out of bowl.

Fresh Amberjack Ceviche Summer!

Close up of Eggplant Parmesan with broiled on Mozzarella cheese and a basil garnish over zucchini noodles. White plate.

Eggplant Parmesan with Zoodles

Close Up of Seared Amberjack Fish On A white plate on a bed of white pole beans.

Lemon Butter Amberjack Fish

Top down view of open clams and sausage in sauce in a green bowl with a baguette on the side.

Clams and Chorizo in White Wine Sauce

Top down view of two plates of ragout: cooked sausage, sliced seared zucchini, chopped kale, white beans, and tomato. Side of hot chili flakes on the side.

Sausage And Bean Ragout with Kale (AKA Ragu)

Cooked Red Snapper with red peppers and sliced olives on a white plate with sliced lemon wedges on top and a parsley garnish.

Baked Mediterranean Whole Red Snapper

White plate with spaghetti topped with chili and grated cheddar cheese with a parsley garnish

Easy Cincinnati Chili with Spaghetti

Baked Meatballs elevated on a wire rack above an aluminum lined baking sheet.

Buffalo Meatballs with Dill Sauce

Pan Fried Chicken Thigh with a blue bowl of Grape sauce on a Wood Serving Plate with a sprig of rosemary

Pan Seared Chicken with Grape Sauce

Verticle Bowl of Corn Chowder w/ Sweet Potatoes, Bacon, Cilantro, and Avocado Garnish. Close up.

Sweet Potato and Corn Chowder

Lemon Shrimp, Capers, halved cherry tomatoes with sliced green onions over wild rice. Almond and Parmesan cheese garnish.

Lemon Shrimp And Cherry Tomatoes

White bowl of shrimp in red tomato sauce over white rice and garnished with peppers and chopped celery leaves.

Easy Shrimp Creole with Rice

Shrimp Salad w/ Horseradish, Chives, Lemon In A White Bowl.

Simple and Easy Cold Shrimp Salad

White bowl of orange soup with green garnish with blue napkin and silverware on the side. Top View

Carrot Soup with Coconut Milk

Side view of white bowl of orange yellow butternut squash soup with a spoon on the side and toasted coconut flakes and mint on the side. Stainless steel pot of soup in background with a ladle.

Coconut Curry Butternut Squash Soup

Cooked Blue Cheese and Fig Stuffed Tenderloin. Elevated on a wire rack over a cast iron skillet.

Blue Cheese and Fig Stuffed Pork Loin

Grilled Grouper Collar (Fish Neck) on a white plate with grilled pineapple rounds. Another plate out of focus in the background.

Grouper Collars (AKA Fish Collars)

Side view of white bowl of green salad with shelled edamame, pecans, cherry tomato halves. Fork sticking out.

Arugula, Edamame, Tomato Salad

Baked Amberjack White Fish with Thyme Laying On a Green Banana Leaf On A Wood Plate

Amberjack en Papillote

2 spring rolls cut in half (4 halves) filled with avocado, grated carrots and red cabbage, rice noodles, green lettuce on a wood cutting board.

Healthy Vegetable Spring Rolls

2 wood bowls of cole slaw with sliced red peppers, green onions and celery with cilantro and peanut garnish. Dressing, two forks and napkins in background.

Asian Inspired Napa Cabbage Salad

Close up of Pork Shoulder chunked and shredded over rice with halved cherry tomatoes and Cucumber Salad w/ Cilantro and Sesame Seeds.

Slow Cooked Asian Pork Shoulder

White bowl of chunky red onions, cucumbers, tomatoes, yellow and red peppers salad. Wood spoon it it.

Easy and Simple Summer Salad

Sliced deer tenderloin on a dark green cutting board with a sprig of rosemary.- Eat Simple Food

Perfect Seared & Baked Deer Tenderloin

Top view. Chunks of shredded chicken, with whole cashews, raisins, and celery in a yellow curry mayonnaise dressing. White bowl.

Cashew Curry Chicken Salad

2 Plates with one taco each. Flour tortilla filled with sliced cooked steak, tomato salsa, red cabbage, tomatoes, and cilantro. sliced radishes on the side. Glass of water, fork, knife and napkin. Top view.

Easy Skirt Steak Tacos

2 soft shell tacos on a plate filled with fresh red tomatoes, guacamole, cabbage slaw with 2 wedges of lime and black beans on the side.

Healthy Red Snapper Fish Tacos

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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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