Pizza Chicken, Potato Casserole

Chicken and Potatoes Pizza Style Casserole is one of our favorite all-in-one pan meals!


If you love pizza, then this replica and the easy chicken casserole will be a new family favorite.


It combines all the great tastes of a loaded cheese pizza with adding chicken and potatoes to the mix with tomato sauce.


Now it's the most asked for chicken dish in our family.


If your family loves pizza or even chicken parmesan, this is the best of both worlds.


This chicken is cooked in a rich tomato sauce layered with cheeses, spices, and potatoes.


The bonus is added pepperoni to taste like a pepperoni chicken pizza.


The meal is all in one pan and so easy to make.


This is one of the kids and the whole family will love and ask for it again and again.


A family favorite for years that is done in no time.


This recipe is featured in Tuscany School of Cooking and mentioned as one of the Top Italian Food Bloggers, I am very proud of my heritage and thank them both for acknowledging great Italian American recipes.


Scroll down to see this easy recipe, and do tell me how you like it after you try this!

Mom's Lasagna Recipe

Mom's lasagna was always a treat around the holiday, especially Easter or Christmas time.


She would make everything from scratch and it would take her a labor of love in hours.


Homemade noodles cut by hand, sauce, meatballs, sausage all from scratch!


Of course now in busier times, we have all the necessary ingredients to make a lasagna in record time and it is so much easier.


Back in Bari, Italy where mom came from, everything was made by hand special during a holiday.


You can use all store-bought ingredients and this lasagna will be a huge hit.


Mom made her lasagna with hard-boiled eggs in a layer, that was how her Region made it, you can skip that layer and just add more meat if you aren't a fan.


Here is an awesome recipe for mom's lasagna, we miss her every day and make it in her memory every year.


Easter and Christmas Day are our traditions to keep her memory alive in the kitchen making this recipe.


Scroll down to the bottom to print the recipe off.

Savory Butternut Squash Casserole

Fall shouts the time to make this savory Butternut Squash Casserole, I just this love side dish for the holiday table.

Butternut squash is so versatile, you can cook it in so many different ways.

Topped with sharp cheddar cheese the casserole is a big hit from the plain boiled squash and a nice change from the sweeter casserole dishes.

If you love butternut squash this is an easy recipe everyone raves about.

We love fall side dishes and you may also like to try my roundup of Holiday Side Dishes and 30 Delicious Appetizers Recipes.

There are some tips and suggestions to follow so read those also before starting the recipe especially for Cutting Up Butternut Squash Easily!

Scroll down to the recipe card for the printable butternut squash casserole recipe.

Boneless Pork Cacciatore

Pork Cacciatore is a tender slow cooked all-in-one-pan meal mom made easily right on the stovetop and it was certainly a comfort food that everyone always raved about with all these flavorful ingredients that went into the pot.

Back in the 1960s, you may be more familiar with a chicken cacciatore, which was what we had most of the time but also if we happened to be able to afford pork that week, she would use bone-in or boneless pork which was a favorite, especially in this delicious sauce it's simmered in.

With the addition of freshly sliced mushrooms, tomatoes, and peppers this all one-pan meal was a banquet to us, plus often it was perfect to stretch out when served with rice, pasta, or eaten with a massive hunk of hard-crusted Italian Bread and fed a large family economically.

Of course, we also loved the slow-cooked meal for Chicken Cacciatore the popular classic Italian style recipe with pork was a treat when we had it.

This delicious cacciatore recipe can be served plain, over rice, with a side of pasta of any kind you like, or even on Italian bread which happens to be my favorite way!

During the winter months, this cacciatore was often a weeknight easy meal!

Scroll down to get this simple printable cacciatore recipe and how to make it.