Spinach Salad with Warm Bacon Vinaigrette

Miso-Glazed Salmon with Blistered Snap Peas

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Even when you’re short on time, you can create dishes that are as delicious as they are quick to make. These 10 meals come together in 30 minutes (or less!). 

Delicious Dishes You Can Make in Under 30 Minutes

“There are some meals you know are special because of the time they require or the long list of ingredients they call for. Other times, I find joy in recipes that can be as creative or straightforward as I want. The base of this recipe offers that flexibility. Flatbread is delicious with a simple, traditional hummus or dip, but I also love piling on veggies from the garden, or as this recipe calls for, a little bit of prosciutto and arugula.” — Joanna Gaines, Magnolia Table, Volume 3

Joanna Gaines' Balsamic-Glazed Prosciutto Flatbread

Balsamic-Glazed Prosciutto Flatbread

How to develop new hobbies that make use of your time while adding more joy and creativity to your life, plus can serve as go-to ideas for gifts or entertaining.

Hobbies to Boost Creativity and Community This Year

Living in Texas means there are short windows of truly pleasant weather when you can linger outside and lose all sense of time. I like to seize those moments

Magnolia Table with Joanna Gaines: Season 6, Episode 5

What we love most about this tortilla soup recipe is that it’s not only easy to make, but it’s also very customizable. Add or subtract as many toppings as you

Tortilla Soup Recipe

When it comes to choosing a rug, you have a lot of options. Something that can help to point you in the right direction is knowing the design style or styles

Rug Style Guide

For breakfast, lunch, dinner, or a quick snack in-between, eggs are a sure way to fuel you any time of day. They can be mainstays of a meal or key ingredients

A Collection of Egg Recipes

This is a cookie that has just the right amount of chewiness while also having a satisfying bit of crunch. It is perfect with tea in the afternoon or as a delicious dessert. I love lace cookies because they are very forgiving and easy to make without doing a ton of preparation ahead of time.

Elizabeth Poett's Molasses Lace Cookies with White Chocolate Filling

Molasses Lace Cookies with White Chocolate Filling

I am always super-excited when fresh cherries show up at the markets! These little stone fruits burst with flavor and are only here for a short time, so I love to enjoy them as much as possible. Scones are an easy, quick way to make something special for breakfast, and I think they are best with fresh fruit in them.

Elizabeth Poett's Cherry-Almond Scones Drizzled with White Chocolate

Cherry-Almond Scones Drizzled with White Chocolate

You can’t have soul food without sides, so I’m going to show you how to make some crowd-pleasing hush puppies. Hush puppies are slightly sweetened cornmeal dough balls that are deep fried until golden and crispy on the outside and soft on the inside. And trust me, make way more than you think, they will go quickly!

Hush Puppies

As much as I enjoy doing my own thing in the kitchen, I love when the kids are happy to jump in and help me make a meal. In this episode, I have a couple of

Magnolia Table with Joanna Gaines: Episode 4

These bars are simple to make and so scrumptious that they seem to disappear in seconds. The layers of dark chocolate, white chocolate, and butterscotch meld with the coconut, walnuts, and sweetened condensed milk for a rich, buttery caramel flavor. You can switch up the types of chocolate and the nuts to make this with your favorites. These are great for feeding a crowd and are easy to make a day ahead of time. They’re fun to bring to a potluck and they travel well. All in all they’re a decadent dessert that doesn't need to be served on a plate.

Elizabeth’s Magic Layer Bars

Here you can read Chip's thoughts from our summer issue of Magnolia Journal on identifying the things in your own life that are worth the

Chip's Column: fear-less

"An easy way to gather vegetables for this recipe is to keep a baggie in the freezer and whenever you have leftover vegetables you can just toss them in. That way, as soon as you cook a recipe that leaves you with chicken bones, you have what you need to make the stock—you can just put it all in a large pot on the stove and let it simmer. I always try to make as much of this stock as possible so that I can freeze at least half the batch. There is satisfaction in using every last bit of food you can, and knowing that nothing is going to waste." – Joanna Gaines, Magnolia Table, Volume 3

Homemade Chicken Stock

Every time I pull a jar of these pickles off the shelf, I am so happy I took the time to make them. They are a wonderful addition to many kinds of sandwiches. I often put them on the table at a barbecue so that people can snack on them and add a little something salty to their plates. This is a fun and simple project to do on your own or with your family.

Dill Pickle Chips

Fried green tomatoes are delicious, but fried okra, well that’s a dish that is close to my heart.  I grew up eating fried okra, so these are two delicious items that you can prepare at the same time. I’m excited to share this recipe, so you can make them at home. Green tomatoes and okra are both seasonal ingredients. If frying okra out of season, you can use frozen okra that’s been thawed.

Millie Peartree's Fried Okra and Fried Green Tomatoes

Fried Okra and Fried Green Tomatoes

In my book, whole-roasted chicken is an essential recipe for any kitchen. There’s something comforting about the smell enveloping you as it roasts. I always add vegetables to cook alongside the chicken to make dinner a little easier – all in one pan, delicious, and hearty. While there’s wide versatility in the veggie selection, parsnips are a good choice because they caramelize to candy-like sweetness when they cook. Rosemary adds an irresistible piney flavor. But the crispy chicken skin is the star. For the best results, it is imperative to season the chicken with salt ahead of time. After buying the chicken, go ahead and prepare it for cooking by salting it. Seasoning ahead of time will allow the salt to penetrate into the chicken, making it more delicious and help retain moisture when roasting.

Roast Chicken

Dry rubs are a simple way to season meat and even veggies before they go on the grill. This year, as summer begins to sneak in, we’re making our own dry rubs

Homemade Dry Rub Recipes

When time and care goes into a meal, you can taste it. There’s something satisfying about savoring food that’s not only packed in flavor, but rich in

Magnolia Table with Joanna Gaines: Season 5, Episode 3

You can’t have a great soul food dinner without ending with a crowd-pleasing dessert. So, for our final chapter we are going to make a drop biscuit peach cobbler, and it’s as easy to make as it is delicious. Every recipe I create has one common goal: to help you realize that cooking is easy, it’s fun, and anyone can make great food. I promise you, give it a try, and watch how your family and friends come together and how it turns every meal you make into a special occasion.

Millie Peartree's Drop Biscuit Peach Cobbler

Drop Biscuit Peach Cobbler

These are, hands down, my kids’ favorite breakfast. Who am I kidding? They’re my favorite, too, especially when served alongside eggs—I can’t get enough of that combination of sweet and salty. These are definitely a labor of love, but honestly I think we all enjoy preparing them almost as much as we like to eat them. I’m in my happy place anytime I get to work with dough. Mixing the ingredients together into a cohesive whole, draping a towel over the bowl and letting the dough rise, punching it down, and then rolling, filling, and shaping it—the ritual of every step brings me pure joy. Whenever I bust out the ingredients for these squares, the kids know it’s a good day. I make these a lot during school holidays when there’s time in the morning for them to help. Duke and Emmie stand at attention with the measured ingredients waiting for the sign from me that they can dump them into the bowl, and then the older two help me roll out the dough and compose each layer. Drake loves that he’s finally allowed to use a big knife to cut the squares before they’re baked, and then he and Ella apply the egg wash to the tops of them. The kids understand that the bit of extra effort required for these squares makes them something really special.



I think it probably helps that these squares are the best iteration of a cinnamon roll that any of us has ever tasted. It can be hard to get a good balance with cinnamon rolls—they either have too much bread or too much cinnamon. The way I make these, rolling and folding them repeatedly so that the filling is between several thin layers of dough, results in a square that has a perfect amount of both bread and cinnamon, so every bite is balanced.