-
Recent Posts
Archives
Categories
-
Join 380 other subscribers
Meta
Category Archives: Weeknight dinners
Penne with meat sauce. 6/3/24
Last week our favorite brand of pasta, Barilla, was on sale for $1.27/lb. Since I love pasta we bought the 4 boxes allowed and cooked up 6 ounces that were sauced with the ground beef and tomato sauce I made … Continue reading
Posted in American, Beef, Easy, Italian, leftovers, Pasta, Vegetables, Weeknight dinners
Tagged pasta
Leave a comment
Roasted chicken thighs with BBQ sauce, salad, and taco beans. 6/2/34
Tonight everyone got into the dinner prep. John was in charge of the chicken, daughter wanted to try a new black bean recipe, and I made the salad. Boneless, skinless chicken thighs were on sale this week for $1.97/lb. so … Continue reading
Posted in American, Easy, Hot weather meals, Legumes, Poultry, Salad, Vegetables, Weeknight dinners
Tagged chicken
Leave a comment
Orecchiette with mushrooms and kale. 5/22/24
We started watching Ciao House this week. The culinary area of this competition* is Puglia, Italy. We have spent a lot of our visits to Italy in Puglia and watching the show made us want to prepare an Apulian dish. … Continue reading
Posted in Easy, Italian, Methods, Pasta, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Weeknight dinners
Tagged mushrooms, pasta
Leave a comment
Quick Vietnamese Beef Pho. 5/21/24
I have been willing to make pho just with beef broth and its usual accompaniments. But the we saw Jet Tila make a quick pho broth on his show, Ready, Jet, Cook and decided to give it a try. Here’s … Continue reading
Posted in Asian, Beef, Recipes, soup, Vegetables, Vietnamese, Weeknight dinners
Tagged Beef, pho, rice noodles
Leave a comment
Stir-fried vegetables and egg over rice. 5/19/24
Sunday is Breakfast For Dinner day. I had some broccoli left over from Friday’s dinner so I combined that with some sliced carrot, onion, shredded cabbage, and scrambled egg. I seasoned the whole thing with tamari plus ground ginger and … Continue reading
Posted in American, Asian, Breakfast For Dinner (BFD), Easy, Eggs, rice, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Weeknight dinners
Tagged Eggs
2 Comments
Buffalo chicken wings and salad. 5/20/24
I cannot take much credit for tonight’s dinner. The chicken wings were from a frozen bag and the salad was from Taylor Farms pre-prepared line of salads. We had a late appointment to see how my pneumonia was doing (much … Continue reading
Posted in American, Easy, Poultry, Salad, Vegetables, Weeknight dinners
Leave a comment
Penne arrabbiata 5/17/24
This is a recipe that I found on Serious Eats and adapted to our tastes. Here’s the original website https://www.seriouseats.com/penne-pasta-arrabbiata-sauce-recipe. We changed it up a bit because we like our spiciness coming from various sources—the red pepper flakes for overall … Continue reading
Posted in Easy, Italian, Pasta, Recipes, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Weeknight dinners
Tagged pasta
Leave a comment
Chickpeas, ditalini, and greens. 5/15/24
You can make this weeknight dinner vegan, vegetarian, or not depending on whether you garnish it with dairy cheese or use chicken stock instead of vegetable stock. Our dinner used what we had on hand, Parmesan cheese and chicken stock. … Continue reading
Posted in American, Easy, Legumes, Pasta, Recipes, stew, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Weeknight dinners
Tagged chickpeas
1 Comment
Grilled hamburger and salad. 5/14/24
Although here in California we can pretty much grill stuff all year long there is something about sitting outside while it’s warm and still light out watching John flip burgers that screams summer. John is an expert at medium rare … Continue reading
Classic chicken dinner. 5/13/34
We have tended to make a chicken dinner on Mondays for years now. In fact our son often makes chicken dinner on Mondays for his family, a holdover from his youth. Monday’s chicken dinner was rotisserie chicken breast reheated in … Continue reading
Omnivore 