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

I've spent years making many of Ina Garten's dinner recipes, and I have a few favorites for when I want an easy meal. Trent Pheifer I've spent years cooking all of celebrity chef Ina Garten's recipes, more than 1,300. My favorite dinner recipes of hers include eggs in purgatory and a 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, celebrity chef Ina Garten has plenty of easy weeknight meals that are low-effort but high-reward. I should know, as I have spent about a decade cooking my way through the Barefoot Contessa's entire recipe repertoire of more than 1,350 recipes.