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

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.Garten 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.Most of these recipes should get dinner on the table in under an hour — many in just 30 minutes.

Baked shrimp scampi can be on the table in less than 30 minutes.

Baked shrimp scampi pairs well with broccoli.