The tangy orange flavor of the popular soda pop frozen into a creamy confection.
Time: over 5 hours
Everyday Cooking

These are the basics, the simple meals, the make ahead recipes. Everyday cooking for every one.
These are the recipes you sometimes forget even are available. Like, making homemade cleansers and beauty products. Or, convenience items like croutons or coffee creamer. While so easy to buy, they are also easy to make.
Also check out our "make ahead" section for recipe-saving ingredient substitutes.
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Orange Crush Sherbet
Slovenian Sausage
Made with sausage casings, garlic, red wine, salt, black pepper, ground pork shoulder
Time: 30-60 minutes
Slow Cooker 7-Up Pot Roast
This recipe for slow cooker 7-Up pot roast is a delicious and easy way to make a pot roast. The 7-Up adds a touch of sweetness to the dish, while the slow cooker cooks the...
Method: crock pot
Time: 2-5 hours
Brandied Plum Jam
This boozy plum jam is the perfect way to use up any extra plums you may have. The brandy in the recipe gives it a rich flavor that is perfect on toast or as a topping for pork chops.
Method: stovetop
Time: 30-60 minutes
Homemade Mascarpone
Mascarpone is similar to the cream cheese we buy at the store but it has a more velvety texture and a rich, sweet flavor.
Method: stovetop
Time: over 5 hours
Every day we send out a featured recipe and our editor's favorite picks. Don't miss out!
Easy Chocolate Croissants
Store-bought crescent roll dough is a huge time saver. Mix a little melted chocolate and drizzle yumminess all over the fresh baked delicacy.
Method: oven
Time: under 30 minutes
Crispy Crunchy Crouton Sticks
French bread is cut into sticks and coated with melted butter, basil, garlic powder, and onion salt and then baked until crisp.
Method: stovetop
Time: 30-60 minutes
Amish Country Casserole
Beef and onions cooked with tomato soup, egg noodles, and cream of mushroom soup make a hearty and simple dish.
Method: stovetop, oven
Time: 30-60 minutes
Fresh Angel Hair Pasta
There's nothing quite like a heaping plate of fresh angel hair pasta. The delicate, paper-thin noodles are the perfect vessel for your favorite sauce.
Method: stovetop
Time: 30-60 minutes
30 Minute Fresh Mozzarella Cheese
For a delicious, fun, and surprisingly easy kitchen project, fresh mozzarella is hard to beat. It's perfect for salads, melty grilled cheeses, and caprese appetizers.
Method: stovetop
Time: 30-60 minutes
Tangerine Jelly
The taste of this tangerine jelly is sweet and tangy, making it a perfect addition to any breakfast table. Try it on toast, bagels, or even pancakes for a delicious treat.
Method: stovetop
Time: over 5 hours
Hot Link Sausage
Want to try your hand at making homemade sausage? This recipe yields a flavorful and spicy sausage that can be made into links or patties.
Method: outdoor grill
Time: under 30 minutes
Slow Cooker Hard-Boiled Eggs
Want perfect hard-boiled eggs every time? Try making them in your crock pot.
Method: crock pot
Time: 2-5 hours
Skillet Cobbler
This recipe is for the person who loves Southern food and dessert. The best part of this skillet cobbler is that it can be made in one pan for less cleanup.
Method: oven
Time: 30-60 minutes
Rhubarb Freezer Jam
The classic combo of rhubarb and strawberry in a chunky freezer jam. Perfect on toast, english muffins, pancakes, etc.
Method: stovetop
Time: over 5 hours
7 And 7 Cocktail
The 7&7 is a classic cocktail. Combining Seagram's 7 blended whiskey with 7-Up, this simple beverage packs a punch of flavor in every sip.
Time: under 30 minutes
Gravy-Baked Pork Chops
Simple ingredients, outstanding flavor. Lean pork chops are browned then oven-baked in a creamy gravy. Serve the tender chops and gravy over mashed potatoes or noodles.
Method: stovetop, oven
Time: 30-60 minutes
7 Up Fresh Strawberry Pie
Lemon-lime soda is the secret ingredient that makes this pie so tasty!
Method: stovetop
Time: over 5 hours
Make-Ahead Chicken Casserole
Introduce your dinner table to the comfort and convenience of this make-ahead chicken casserole. Simply assemble, refrigerate, and bake when you're ready for a wholesome...
Method: oven
Time: over 5 hours
Cherry Crunch
A simple dessert that can be prepared in just a few minutes. It has a cinnamon-sugar crust that is topped with cherry pie filling and then baked.
Method: oven
Time: 30-60 minutes
Chocolate Malt Coffee Creamer
A good powdered coffee creamer is never a bad thing to have on hand. This malted blend is a major improvement on plain store-bought creamer.
Time: under 30 minutes
Half-And-Half Substitute
Half-and-half is basically milk with a higher fat content. So it's easy to make your own substitute by upping the fat content of regular milk.
Time: under 30 minutes
Sweet Or Sour Cherry Jam
This cherry jam can go either way: sweet or sour! Step up the sugar to fruit ratio for a sweet jam that's perfect on baked goods.
Method: stovetop
Time: 1-2 hours
Spiced Tomato Jam With Powdered Pectin
Made with pectin, sugar, tomatoes, lemon rind, ground allspice, ground cinnamon, ground cloves, lemon juice
Method: stovetop
Time: 30-60 minutes
Freezer Garlic Bread
A great make-ahead recipe. Simply fill the sliced bread with a garlic butter spread and freeze until you are ready to bake it.
Method: oven
Time: under 30 minutes
Vegetable Cleaner Spray
These days, who knows what kind of stuff is on all your fruits and veggies? A little homemade spray with vinegar and grapefruit extract gets produce clean as can be for all your...
Time: under 30 minutes
Ginger Jelly
From fresh ginger to jelly jars, this recipe shows you how to create a sweet and spicy spread that's perfect for any meal.
Method: stovetop
Time: 30-60 minutes
Genoa Salami
Beef and pork butt go into this Genoa salami recipe along with brandy and a boatload of spices. Once the curing time is up your bragging rights will be awesome.
Time: over 5 hours
Bottled Apple Juice Jelly
Who knew apple juice could dress up so nicely? This apple juice jelly recipe turns your everyday juice into a gourmet treat that's perfect for toast, desserts, or just a...
Method: stovetop
Time: 1-2 hours
Homemade Cool Whip
Cool Whip is a unique non-dairy whipped topping that is used in many recipes. You can make your own version with just a few shelf-stable ingredients.
Time: 30-60 minutes
Gingerbread Coffee Mix
Mixing spices, powdered coffee creamer, and instant coffee together makes an all-in-one instant gingerbread coffee.
Time: under 30 minutes
Bisquick Beer Bread
Enjoy freshly baked beer bread in no time with our quick and easy recipe using Bisquick. With just a few simple ingredients, you can make a hearty and flavorful loaf using your...
Method: oven
Time: 30-60 minutes
Instant Alfredo Sauce Mix
This sauce mix makes a pasta dish loads better than you'd get with heavy jarred alfredo, without the hassle of making the sauce from scratch just for a weeknight dinner.
Time: under 30 minutes
Sour Cream Substitute
Powdered milk and vinegar do the trick for a thick sour cream substitute perfect for chili, fajitas, or baked potatoes.
Time: 2-5 hours
Strawberry Daiquiri Cake
A strawberry daiquiri flavored version of the popular "poke" cake made with strawberry cake mix, sweetened condensed milk, daiquiri mix, and fresh strawberries.
Method: oven
Time: 1-2 hours
Creamy Beef Enchilada Casserole
This simple layered enchilada-style casserole is made with ground beef that's simmered in a creamy enchilada sauce and layered with longhorn cheese and corn tortillas.
Method: stovetop, oven
Time: under 30 minutes
Bacon Swiss Squares
These scrumptious squares are kind of like quiche you can eat with your hands. Perfect for brunch. Throw a fried egg on top of the leftovers for an easy, cheesy breakfast.
Method: oven
Time: under 30 minutes
Soft Cat Treats
Fluffy will love these homemade, cheesy cat treats. Bonus: they freeze well.
Method: oven
Time: 30-60 minutes
Make-Your-Own OxiClean
OxiClean is a popular household cleaner that can be used for a variety of purposes. You can buy it at the store, or you can make your own at home!
Time: under 30 minutes
Freezer Alfredo Sauce
This make-ahead recipe comes in handy on busy days.
Method: stovetop
Time: under 30 minutes
Low Carb Bisquick Like Mix
Looking for a low-carb alternative to Bisquick? Just combine soy isolate powder with baking agents and shortening for a quick, handy mix that works in a variety of recipes.
Time: under 30 minutes
Homemade Cream Cheese
Making cream cheese from scratch sounds like a complicated process but it's actually pretty simple. And best of all, it's homemade!
Method: stovetop
Time: 2-5 hours
Borden's Sweetened Condensed Milk Copycat
A copycat version of Borden's brand of sweetened condensed milk. Made with nonfat dry milk powder, sugar, water, and butter.
Time: 1-2 hours
Breakfast Pork Sausage
For the best breakfast pork sausage, start with pork shoulder as it is flavorful and has the perfect fat-to-meat ratio. Add the spices and form into links or patties.
Time: 30-60 minutes
Chunky Peach Preserves
Made with freestone peaches, water, sugar, lemon juice
Method: stovetop
Time: over 5 hours
Root Beer Pie
A must for root beer lovers. Pecans make a great pairing with the root beer flavor, and the brown sugar-sweetened filling is a bit like pecan pie.
Method: stovetop, oven
Time: 1-2 hours
Japanese Plum Jelly
If you can get your hands on some ripe Japanese satsuma plums, take advantage and make some jelly. Nothing complicated, just a sweet, pectin-thickened jelly to make some exceptional...
Method: stovetop
Time: under 30 minutes
Homemade Weed Killer
This home remedy of vinegar, salt and regular dish soap kills weeds just as effectively, without all the nasty stuff.
Time: under 30 minutes
Little Eataly Meatballs (For Dogs)
Made with garlic powder, dried oregano, quick rolled oats, eggs, ground chicken or turkey, Parmesan cheese
Method: oven
Time: 1-2 hours
Colored Sand
You could buy colored sand for fun arts and crafts projects, but why buy it when you can make it yourself? All you need is sand and tempera paints.
Time: under 30 minutes
Homemade Egg Noodles
This homemade egg noodle recipe is a must-try for pasta lovers. With only a few ingredients like flour and eggs, you'll learn how to create fresh noodles that can be shaped into...
Time: 30-60 minutes
Extra Light Chocolate Cake
The simple combination of a box of chocolate cake mix and a can of diet cola result in a delicious (and lower calorie) cake.
Method: oven
Time: 1-2 hours
Velvet Crumb Cake
Pull out your baking gear because making dessert has never been simpler. With this velvet crumb cake, you'll discover that you can craft something truly special without the fuss.
Method: oven
Time: 30-60 minutes
Make Ahead and Freeze Oven Meatballs
Make ahead today for a last minute dinner idea later or keep on hand to use in another recipe.
Method: oven
Time: 30-60 minutes
Amaretto Coffee Creamer
This amaretto flavored coffee creamer is shelf-stable, equally suited to for on-the-go java or morning coffee at home.
Time: under 30 minutes
Bayleaf Ant Remedy
Have ants? This DIY, natural remedy will take care of those ants for you. No chemicals involved, just bay leaves, salt, and water so it's safe around kids and pets.
Method: stovetop
Time: 30-60 minutes
Real Cheese Croutons
These crunchy croutons are made from 100% cheese and can be used on salads in place of their bready counterparts. Break them into larger pieces for a crispy low carb snack cracker.
Method: stovetop
Time: under 30 minutes
Homemade Maraschino Cherries
Is there a more classic look than a bright red maraschino cherry garnishing a hot-fudge sundae? Make the cherries en masse at home so you can top off sundaes and garnish...
Method: stovetop
Time: over 5 hours
Ah, the unassuming envelope of onion soup mix. It's more than just for onion soup (or dip). It adds tremendous flavor (and convenience) in all these recipes.
It may look like a sad little package shoved in the back of your freezer, but frozen spinach actually has a lot of culinary uses (and some may surprise you).
Beer makes batters better, meat more tender, and sauces more flavorful.






































































