Ellen Cooks

Ellen Cooks

Simple homemade recipes for everyday cooking, from cozy dinners and comforting soups to fresh salads and something sweet. Find a new family favorite to make tonight.

What Will We Make Today?

Creamy chicken and vegetable rice skillet with broccoli, carrots, and celery in a rich cheesy Parmesan sauce served in a pan.

Easy Dinner Recipes

Chicken tortellini soup with rotisserie chicken, spinach, and clear broth in bowl

Homemade Soup Recipes

Triple fruit cobbler with cake mix baked until golden and crisp, featuring apple pie filling, peaches, blueberries, and a buttery crumb topping in a 9x13 dish

Easy Dessert Recipes

Freshly baked bakery-style chocolate chunk cookies with gooey dark chocolate pools, golden crispy edges, and flaky sea salt on top cooling on a wire rack.

Easy Cookie Recipes

Easy cranberry pecan baked Brie drizzled with honey and served with grapes, rustic crackers and sliced baguette.

Easy Appetizer Recipes

Broccoli kale crunch salad with crisp apples, dried cranberries, walnuts, almonds, red cabbage and vegan coleslaw dressing.

Fresh Salad Recipes

Golden homemade rosemary sea salt focaccia bread with crispy olive oil crust and soft airy center fresh from the oven

Homemade Bread Recipes

Virgin Shirley Temple mocktail with orange juice, ginger ale, grenadine, ice cubes, maraschino cherry, and fresh orange slice garnish in a tall glass

Easy Drink Recipes

Cozy Fall Favorites

Comforting dinners, hearty soups, and cozy baking for cooler days. Here are a few recipes to try this fall.

Creamy garlic herb chicken thighs baked until golden with peas, fresh parsley, thyme, and a rich savory cream sauce.

Creamy Garlic Herb Chicken Thighs

One pot Moroccan chicken with sweet potatoes, prunes, onions, and warm spices simmered in a rich savory sauce, served in a rustic bowl

Moroccan Chicken, Sweet Potato & Prune Pot

Homemade shrimp and pork dumpling soup with juicy wontons, bok choy, cilantro, and green onions in a rich Asian-style broth served hot in a rustic bowl.

Shrimp & Pork Dumpling Soup

Hearty beef barley and vegetable soup with tender stewing beef, pearl barley, carrots and potatoes in a rich tomato herb broth.

Hearty Beef Barley and Vegetable Soup

Cranberry feta chickpea chopped salad with dried cranberries, crumbled feta, chopped lettuce, fresh herbs and lemon herb dressing in a rustic wooden bowl.

Cranberry Feta Chickpea Chopped Salad

Homemade apple crumble bars with a buttery shortbread crust, soft cinnamon apple filling and golden crumble topping, dusted with powdered sugar and served on a white dessert plate.

Easy Apple Crumble Bars

Meet the Family Behind Ellen Cooks

Ellen Cooks is a family project, with recipes we develop and test together in our home kitchen. We share comforting meals, practical cooking tips, and plenty of ideas for what to make next. Get to know Ellen and the family behind the food.

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