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Mediterranean Lunch Recipes

Easy and delicious Mediterranean lunch recipes and ideas that are perfect for home or meal prep. Explore light salads, grain bowls, wraps, and vegetable-forward dishes that keep you energized through the day.

The Ultimate One Pot Creamy Beef and Garlic Butter Pasta Recipe

One pot creamy beef and garlic butter pasta in a large cooking pot

Here’s what makes one pot creamy beef and garlic butter pasta so special – when you cook everything together, the pasta actually helps thicken your sauce. As the pasta cooks, it releases starch that makes your sauce creamy without adding flour or other thickeners. The beef juices mix with the garlic butter, and you end up with this rich, flavorful sauce that coats every piece of pasta perfectly.

5 Secrets to Perfect Lemon Garlic Butter Shrimp in 15 Minutes

Perfect lemon garlic butter shrimp searing in pan with fresh herbs

Fifteen minutes later, she was asking me to write down the recipe! Now I make this lemon garlic butter shrimp at least twice a week because it’s just so good and so easy.

The thing is, most people think restaurant-quality lemon garlic butter shrimp is complicated. It’s not. You just need to know a few tricks, and I’m going to share them all with you.

5 Amazing Secrets for Perfect Spicy Rigatoni Chicken That Will Transform Your Dinner Tonight

Spicy rigatoni chicken pasta in white bowl with creamy sauce and fresh basil garnish

The best part? You probably have most of these ingredients sitting in your kitchen right now. And if you don’t, they’re easy to find at any grocery store. No hunting down exotic spices or fancy imported cheeses – just good, honest ingredients that work together beautifully in this spicy rigatoni chicken masterpiece.

Mezzi Rigatoni: The Pasta That Changed My Life (And My Kitchen Game)

Mezzi rigatoni pasta with spicy tomato cream sauce and fresh basil

That night, I went home and fell down the deepest pasta rabbit hole of my life. And let me tell you, mezzi rigatoni completely changed everything I thought I knew about pasta. It’s like… have you ever discovered something so perfect that you wonder how you lived without it? That’s mezzi rigatoni for me. Now I’m basically the mezzi rigatoni evangelist in my friend group.