Campus Cooking Main Dish Recipes

Great comfort food! You can use any type of bread or cheese that you want for this quick and easy breakfast. Serve with fruit and juice and/or milk for a full breakfast.

These delicious scrambled eggs are quick and easy to make, and for all the family.

This is an extremely simple and delicious spin on the typical ramen noodles that can be EASILY made in the college environment!

This is a quick and easy recipe for tasty bacon and egg breakfast tacos. Serve with salsa if desired.

These remind me of my favorite fast food restaurant's little burgers! Perfect appetizer to bring to a party!

You can customize these simple wraps by topping them with whatever your family likes. Try shredded cheese, tomatoes, or onions.

Excellent restaurant-style macaroni with cheese that knocked me away!

A sweet, warm breakfast idea. Cooked like a grilled cheese, but filled with melted peanut butter and warm bananas.

My husband and I were sick of frying grilled cheeses on the stove because you have so many pieces of bread to use, and you have to stand there for a long time if you feed up to six people like we do. So we came up with this idea.

A delicious microwave egg and cheese sandwich on toast.

An old Mexican classic with a new twist. Anytime we have a potluck, I am asked to bring these. Can be made with chicken or beef.

This microwave recipe is quick and very simple, and is a good meal for a busy work week. You can use any color peppers you like. Try using garbanzos instead of the kidney beans for a variation on this recipe.

Quick and easy -- macaroni, cheese soup, milk and Colby cheese!

An easy, quick, and economical curly noodles recipe that kids really like. Ground beef, noodles, corn, and tomatoes make a complete meal in one skillet. My sister who ran a daycare used to make this and everybody enjoyed it.

If you've never tried grits...you haven't lived!

You can easily personalize this recipe to suit your family's taste. Not only is it quick 'n easy, it tastes great, too! The kids will absolutely love it. I once took this to a Parent/Teen function at church, I've never had so many teenagers ask me for a recipe! Top casserole with your favorite pizza toppings.

Roasted eggplant in a French roll with feta cheese, basil and garlic mayonnaise. This was my favorite sandwich of all time, adapted from a cafe at the University of California, Irvine.

No more telling your parents you're living on instant ramen.

This twist on a popular restaurant dish uses an air fryer to create perfectly crispy sweet and spicy shrimp.

An easy roast beef sandwich with local origins in Buffalo, New York. Kimmelweck rolls are hard kaiser-type rolls covered in coarse ground salt and caraway seeds. This recipe transforms regular rolls into the traditional weck rolls.

This is so easy and fast, like tuna casserole without baking it! Top with French-fried onions, if desired.

Microwave Risotto is great because of its forgiving nature; if you forget it for a half hour, nothing is lost. Also, it is a wonderful clean-out-the-fridge, use-your-imagination, I-just-bounced-five-checks recipe. It reheats well too. You can use margarine or olive oil in place of the butter, and you can use apple juice or white grape juice in place of the wine.

A quick and easy twist on grilled cheese! Great served with cole slaw and soup!

Microwave adapted version of recipe given to me by old friend from Ceylon. Can be baked in oven too.