Bring Out Your Inner Italian Grandma with these Easy Recipe Favorites


Dear Reader,

Who knew it could be so easy to bring out the little Italian Grandma in you? These easy Italian-inspired dishes are favorites any time of year, and they're loved by young and old alike. Quick to the table and perfect for busy weeknights. Hugs on a plate from Grandma (and you) — there's just nothing better than that! Mangia!

Italian Chicken Cutlets

Crispy, tender and juicy Italian Chicken Cutlets are perfect as a quick and easy main dish with your favorite sides, like House Salad, Broccoli Cauliflower Salad or Best Easy Chickpea Salad.

Add these easy, delicious cutlets to a salad, a rice bowl or use in a crispy chicken sandwich. They're the perfect base for Chicken Parmesan, too.

Get the Easy Recipe: Italian Chicken Cutlets

Easy Weeknight Chicken Parmesan

Easy Weeknight Chicken Parm is delicious over your own homemade noodles or favorite store-bought pasta shape.

If you have meal-prepped chicken in the fridge or freezer, like Perfect Baked Chicken Breasts, Italian Chicken Cutlets or Air Fryer Chicken Cutlets, this easy recipe will come together in minutes. But even if you don't you can still make chicken parmesan in just over 30 minutes.

Serve it with Mediterranean Cucumber and Tomato Salad, Crunchy Broccoli Salad with Grapefruit Vinaigrette or a zesty Bell Pepper Salad.

Get the Easy Recipe: Weeknight Chicken Parmesan

Easy Creamy Chicken Tortellini with Broccoli

Creamy Chicken Tortellini with Broccoli is a one-pot, quick and easy dinner to make you swoon!

Loaded with Italian flavor and creamy, comforting alfredo sauce, this chicken dinner with broccoli will be a sensation no matter who you serve it to.

Serve this yummy dish with a crunchy Bell Pepper Salad or Shirazi Salad (Easy Persian Cucumber Salad).

Get the Easy Recipe: Easy Creamy Chicken Tortellini with Broccoli

Rigatoni Bolognese, Easy Delicious Pasta Recipe

Bolognese is more of a time investment than the average recipe on my blog, but Friend, this craveable pasta is SO worth it.

If you've never made your own bolognese, this recipe needs to be on your list. It's extraordinarily delicious!

And rigatoni is the perfect pasta to hold that scrumptious sauce. Serve it with some crusty bread and a house salad, and everyone at the table will be over the moon!

Get the Easy Recipe: Rigatoni Bolognese

More Mouthwatering Italian-Inspired Recipes

Enjoy these recipes as we gear up for a couple weeks of Easter recipes plus hard-boiled eggs and new delicious ways to use them.

Have a wonderfully blessed week! I hope you get to share a meal with the people you love most (and that someone else does the dishes!) Hugs friend!

What's For Dinner?

This is the part of the newsletter where I share recipe ideas from some of my best blogging friends and myself to inspire you with what's for dinner at our houses this week. That gives you seven days worth of new recipes to inspire you for your own delicious meal plan. Enjoy!

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Glenda Embree

Glenda Embree: Making Homemade Easy shares easy, approachable recipes to help you create delicious weeknight dinners, I believe cooking from scratch doesn’t have to be complicated and that YOU can do it. My simple recipes, tutorials, and cooking tips will help you get weeknight dinners on the table with less stress. Forget takeout or the drive-thru. Let me show you how to make homemade easy.

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