30 Spring Dinner Ideas to Refresh Your Weeknight Rotation

Refresh your dinner rotation with these spring recipes! They include vibrant salads, pastas, egg dishes, and more ideas filled with peak-season produce.

These spring dinner ideas are full of bright, fresh flavors! They’re the meals I’m craving as the days get longer and the weather gets warmer. Move over, soups and stews—here, you’ll find vibrant salads, veggie-loaded pastas, delicate egg dishes, grain bowls, and more. If your dinner rotation could use a refresh after a winter full of comfort food, these spring recipes have you covered. I chose these spring dinner recipes with weeknights in mind. Most are easy to make in about 30 minutes, and a few are designed for prepping ahead. They’ll help you enjoy the best flavors of the…

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Lemon Posset

This lemon posset recipe is easy to make with 4 ingredients! Similar to a pudding, it's creamy, bright, and refreshing. A delicious make-ahead dessert!

Have you tried lemon posset? It’s a bright, creamy 4-ingredient treat I’ll be making all spring. A classic British dessert, lemon posset is similar to a custard or a pudding, but it doesn’t require eggs or cornstarch to set up. It’s easy to make with heavy cream, fresh lemon juice, sugar, and vanilla. Sweet and citrusy, it’s such a refreshing way to end a meal! This easy lemon posset recipe would be a perfect dessert for spring occasions like Easter and Mother’s Day. It’s great for entertaining because you can make it ahead, and it looks so elegant in little glasses…

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Cottage Cheese Dip

This cottage cheese dip is a delicious high-protein snack! Easy to make with 6 ingredients, it's creamy and tangy. Serve with crackers or veggies!

I can already tell: this cottage cheese dip will be on repeat in our house this spring. Easy to make in the food processor with just 6 ingredients, it’s creamy and tangy—perfect for scooping up with crackers and veggies. The cottage cheese packs it with protein (this dip has 7 grams per serving!), and avocado fills it with healthy fats. Jack and I love it as a snack, but it would be a crowd-pleasing party appetizer too. Its pale green color is so festive for spring! I’ll be honest—I haven’t loved every cottage cheese recipe I’ve tried since it became…

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Morning Glory Muffins

These morning glory muffins are packed with carrots, apples, raisins, and walnuts. Moist and flavorful, they're a delicious healthy breakfast or snack!

These morning glory muffins might be my favorite muffins of all time. They’re wonderfully moist, warmly spiced, and packed full of shredded carrots, apples, raisins, and walnuts. In fact, I tested them four times to pack in as many mix-ins as I possibly could! I wanted them to feel like a breakfast twist on carrot cake, my family’s favorite spring dessert. Now with 3 full cups of carrots in the recipe—plus a cup of apple—I can confidently say that they absolutely do. Lately, I’ve been loving these morning glory muffins for breakfast with coffee, but they’re also a great anytime snack. Try…

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8 Easy St. Patrick’s Day Recipes Our Readers Love

Our readers make these St. Patrick's Day recipes every year! They include Irish food ideas like soda bread and cabbage, plus festive green treats.

Our readers come back to these St. Patrick’s Day recipes year after year. They range from Irish classics like cabbage and soda bread to any and all things green. Think vibrant green sauces, side dishes, desserts, and more! They include my favorite St. Patrick’s Day food ideas too—the soup I always make, plus the bright green treat I love for dessert. If you’re looking for fun, festive recipes for the holiday, you’re sure to find some ideas here you’ll love! Cabbage Soup I make this hearty cabbage soup on St. Patrick’s Day every year. I’m not the only one—last year,…

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Glazed Carrots

This glazed carrots recipe is an easy side dish for holidays and weeknights! The tender carrots are coated in a flavorful brown sugar or honey glaze.

This glazed carrots recipe is a delicious, easy vegetable side dish. Cooked with brown sugar or honey to bring out their natural sweetness, the carrots are tender, flavorful, and vibrant. They’re a perfect side dish for holidays like Easter and Thanksgiving (especially because they come together on the stovetop, saving you valuable oven space). But they’re so simple that you could make them on busy weeknights too! When I was growing up, brown sugar glazed carrots were always part of my family’s Easter menu. But they were never my favorite. I always found them too soft and too sweet. This glazed…

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Sauteed Cabbage

This sautéed cabbage recipe is a delicious, easy vegetable side dish! Cooked with garlic and vinegar, it's tender, caramelized, and deeply flavorful.

Don’t underestimate this sautéed cabbage recipe! Easy to make in 15 minutes with 6 basic ingredients, this healthy side dish might seem humble, but it’s still incredibly flavorful. The cabbage softens as it cooks, becoming meltingly tender and caramelized. Garlic gives it a nice savory kick, and apple cider vinegar adds subtle sweetness and tang. If you’re anything like me, you won’t be able to resist eating it straight out of the skillet. This sautéed cabbage recipe is one of my go-to healthy side dishes. Great for weeknights, it cooks up in no time and pairs well with practically any…

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Lemon Chickpea Soup

This chickpea soup recipe is comforting yet bright, seasoned with fresh dill and lots of lemon. Easy to make in 30 minutes, it's a perfect weeknight meal!

This chickpea soup recipe is my idea of the perfect weeknight dinner. Canned chickpeas, the starting point of so many of my favorite dinners, are the star ingredient here. Some stay whole for texture, while the rest blend with tahini to make the soup lightly creamy. Spinach, dill, and a squeeze of lemon juice brighten the whole thing up. This chickpea soup comes together in 30 minutes, calls for basic pantry ingredients, and is still somehow comforting, satisfying, and fresh. I first shared it in Simple Feel Good Food, and it’s since become one of the most-made recipes in the book—by me…

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Carrot Cake Bars

These no-bake carrot cake bars are a delicious spring dessert! A creamy, tangy frosting layer tops the warmly spiced carrot and date base.

I’ll be making these carrot cake bars all spring long! I don’t know about you, but I always crave carrot cake in the spring. The combination of warm spices, sweet carrots, and tangy cream cheese frosting just feels like the perfect dessert as the days get warmer and longer. I’m not about to make a full-blown layer cake with any regularity…but these carrot cake bars? I try to keep a stash on hand at all times. 🙂 I first published this recipe in my third cookbook, Simple Feel Good Food. I shared a video of the recipe on social media before…

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Breakfast Casserole

This breakfast casserole recipe is perfect for feeding a crowd. Filled with eggs, cheese, and veggies, it's hearty, delicious, and easy to make ahead!

This breakfast casserole recipe is hearty and flavorful, filled with eggs, cheese, potatoes, and vegetables. I love to make it when I host family or friends for brunch. It feeds a crowd, it’s easy to make ahead, and it’s always a hit. I adapted this easy breakfast casserole recipe from my mom’s. She’s been making her egg breakfast casserole on Easter and Christmas morning for as long as I can remember. This version incorporates a few extra veggies but otherwise sticks to my mom’s tried-and-true recipe. Here’s why I love it: You can make it ahead. Assemble the night before and…

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