I’ve cooked over 1,000 Ina Garten recipes. Here are 10 of my favorites for an easy dinner.

• I’ve spent years cooking all 1,300+ of the celebrity chef Ina Garten’s recipes.
• My favorite dinner recipes of hers include eggs in purgatory and weeknight Bolognese.
• I love her easy recipes for chicken with creamy mustard sauce and rigatoni with sausage and fennel.

As life gets busy with school, work, holidays, and social obligations, we’re left with little time to spend cooking. 

Luckily, the celebrity chef Ina Garten has plenty of easy weeknight meals that are low effort but high reward. I should know, as I spent seven years cooking my way through the Barefoot Contessa’s entire 1,350+ recipe repertoire.

Ina is a master of distilling recipes to their essence, helping home cooks create tasty meals with the best quality ingredients they can afford while pulling out the most delicious flavors. Below, I’m sharing 10 of my favorite easy recipes from her cookbooks.