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15 Healthy Pasta Sauce Recipes for Well-Rounded Dinners

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Healthy pasta sauce transforms pasta from a carb-heavy indulgent splurge to a nutrient-rich and healthy dinner. Enjoy your garden’s harvest with these vegetable-rich recipes, or can and freeze many of these sauces to enjoy in pasta recipes all year long. After all, while pasta itself is delicious, the sauce is really what makes the meal!

Some of these recipes will simmer on the stove all afternoon, while others rely on the slow cooker to do all the work. Use these recipes when you need easy comfort food or on nights when all you have time for are 30-minute healthy dinners. Whether you make homemade noodles, use whatever dry pasta you have in the pantry or splurge on plant-based pasta, top them with these healthy sauces.

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Melt-in-Your-Mouth Slow Cooker Beef

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Beef—especially the marbled “tough” cut type—is a perfect food for the slow cooker. Simmered low and slow all day long, the meat becomes meltingly tender and flavors every single ingredient in the pot. You can’t overcook most cuts of beef in the slow cooker, so long days at work and school are no problem. Even ground beef slow-cooks very well! Here are some of our favorite slow-cooker beef recipes.

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Irresistible Southern Comfort Food Recipes

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Our best belly-stuffin’, soul warmin’ southern recipes. Think chicken-fried steak, biscuits and gravy and plenty of pie.

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Our Best Pot Pie Ideas

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Pot pie is always delicious—it’s comforting and full of complex textures. Filled with hearty meat (like chicken, beef or turkey) and packed with nutritious vegetables, it’s a full dinner all in one, and pie crust or puffed pastry adds buttery flavor and flaky texture. Regardless of how you make it, this filling dinner is the definition of family-friendly comfort food. Better yet? It’s a classic one-pot meal that cuts down on cleanup. These recipes, which range from traditional to twists on the classic (pretzel topping, anyone?) all share one thing in common: they’re sure to satisfy the whole family.

This classic dish is as hearty and wholesome as it gets. It’s creamy and meaty with bold flavor from fresh thyme, bay leaves and black pepper. Mushrooms, peas, carrots and pearl onions add fresh, vegetal flavor to help round out the rich filling. A buttery, crunchy topping gets baked until golden and crispy.

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41 Fall Desserts To Satisfy Your Craving for a Cozy, Delicious Treat

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Our Favorite Fall Dessert Ideas

There’s just something about the change of season that makes us want to head into the kitchen and bake! Whether it’s to use up our apples or pears after a trip to the orchard or simply because we’re craving a perfectly spiced, seasonal treat—fall is one of our favorite times of the year for desserts. You can’t go wrong with any of the ideas in this roundup but a go-to recipe after a day of apple picking is a must. That’s why we love these mini treats; they’re reminiscent of a cake doughnut and perfect for snacking—and flecked with bits of apple. Boosted with cider and topped with streusel, they’re the perfect indulgence.

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