Dinner

Special Occasions Recipes

Browse 8 special occasions recipes with photos, prep and cook times, full ingredient lists, and step-by-step instructions.

Dinner

Honey Garlic Pork Tenderloin with Orange, Thyme, and Rosemary Glaze

Choose a trimmed pork tenderloin of good quality. The tenderloin is a thinner cut that adds moisture and flavor to the final dish when topped. Honey Garlic Pork Tenderloin is a baked main course featuring a glaze of honey, soy sauce, orange juice, garlic, thyme, and rosemary served over broiled pork tenderloin.

40 minOct 7, 2026

Dinner

Shrimp Oreganata with Garlicky Breadcrumbs and White Wine Butter Sauce

Choose large, shelled, deveined shrimp, 12-15 count per pound, to prevent your topping from overpowering the shrimp. Shrimp Oreganata is an Italian American dish of baked shrimp with a topping of bread crumbs and oregano and garlic and a white-wine butter sauce.

30 minOct 3, 2026

Desserts

Apple Crumble Cheesecake With Biscoff Crust and Cinnamon Apples

This apple crumble cheesecake is a fall dessert recipe featuring a Biscoff crust, cinnamon cheesecake filling, baked apples, and an oat crumble topping. The apple cheesecake features a thick cheesecake layer and baked apple pieces covered in an oat crumble topping.

495 minOct 3, 2026

Dinner

Garlic Herb Butter Roast Chicken with Lemony Root Vegetables

Use a 4- to 4.5-pound roasting chicken that is organically or free-range raised and not treated with antibiotics or hormones. This size chicken will not dry out when roasted with vegetables in the same dish. Garlic Herb Butter Roast Chicken with Root Vegetables contains lemony herb butter, crispy chicken skin, and root vegetables, including potatoes, carrots, turnips, shallots, and garlic.

120 minOct 2, 2026

Dinner

Risotto Marinara with Creamy Tomato Rice, Shrimp, and Scallops

This seafood risotto recipe is great for a special dinner at home. Risotto Marinara features Arborio rice cooked in marinara sauce with shrimp and scallops. Lemon juice and white wine make this risotto dish more flavorful.

40 minSep 30, 2026

Dinner

Cioppino Seafood Stew with Fennel Tomato Broth and Shellfish

Thirty minutes of simmering opens up space in a tomato-based, seafood stock and white wine mixture to add more seafood. Opening up space helps avoid overcooking seafood and adds flavor. An Italian dish, cioppino, is a seafood stew made with cod, shrimp, scallops, mussels, and clams in a broth with fennel.

70 minSep 29, 2026

Dinner

Chimichurri Steak with Garlicky Parsley and Golden-Brown Crust

Choose 1½-inch-thick ribeye or New York strip steaks with good marbling for added flavor and tender texture. Chimichurri sauce pairs well with these steaks because of its pungent garlic and herb flavors from parsley and oregano combined with red wine vinegar and red pepper flakes.

25 minSep 27, 2026

Dinner

Tony Bennett’s Mother’s Lasagna With Cinnamon-Spiced Meat Sauce

For a large family or holiday meal, this lasagna recipe for 12 serves uses tender noodles baked with a rich tomato sauce and ground beef and Italian sausage mixtures as well as ricotta and Pecorino Romano cheeses. A small amount of cinnamon added to the sauce gives it additional flavor. Layers of cheese in the lasagna firm up for slicing.

90 minSep 23, 2026

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