Week of Weeknight Meals: March 2023

Hey pals? How are you? Did you’ve weekend? I’m feeling additional chipper this morning as a result of certainly one of my greatest pals from school is arriving on the town right now! My buddy Laurel is coming to the Charlotte space for work so we’re taking full benefit of her travels and squeezing in some high quality time collectively. She’ll be staying with us tonight and immersing herself within the Fagan household craziness!

Earlier than signing off, I wished to supply a peek into final week’s dinners as a part of my Week of Weeknight Meals sequence.

I started sharing what one week of weeknight dinners seems like in our home one week each month some time again as a form of throwback to the start days of this weblog after I’d paperwork breakfast, lunch and dinner practically day-after-day. Just like the early running a blog days, images on this submit are snapped in real-time with no fancy meals images allowed.

Final week our meals included some long-time favourite blogger recipes, seafood, a stir fry and straightforward eats and hopefully one thing under will come out at you and offer you some meal concepts if you’re attempting to determine what to make in the course of the week sooner or later!

Week of Weeknight Meals: March 2023

pizza spaghetti squash casserole

This pizza spaghetti squash casserole has been a household favourite in our home since 2015. (There’s a motive it claimed a spot on my checklist of Blogger Recipes I Make Again and Again!) I made the casserole on Sunday evening for dinner so Monday’s dinner was really leftovers (I made a big batch) and we paired the leftover casserole with a caesar salad combine from a bag. It was a easy dinner which was essential as a result of Monday nights are soccer nights in our home and we don’t arrive residence till near 7 p.m.

On the boys’ plates: Grilled cheese, peach slices and a mixture of child carrots and cucumber slices

  • Tuesday: Shrimp Edamame Ceviche with Avocado

shrimp edamame ceviche

The Complete Meals close to my mother and father’ place in Jacksonville Seashore sells pre-made shrimp ceviche and it’s so recent, vibrant and scrumptious. It’s additionally a reasonably simple recipe to make at residence and imitate which is strictly what I got down to do for Tuesday evening’s dinner. I would like to put in writing down the precise measurements of this one to share with you guys as a result of it was my favourite meal of the week! I ended up making one other batch for lunch the following day as effectively and simply kicked myself for not doubling or tripling the recipe from the start. Within the combine: Shrimp, bell pepper, purple onion, cilantro, edamame, cherry tomato, lime juice, pink salt and plenty of avocado!

On the boys’ plates: Shrimp, edamame, buttered toast and clementines

  • Wednesday: Marinated Rooster Wings with Baked Purple Candy Potatoes and Inexperienced Beans

The marinade I used on the rooster wings we had for dinner on Wednesday evening is identical one I shared on this weblog submit for my Easy Marinated Pork Chops! It’s such a easy one and since we nearly at all times have the components readily available, it’s a go-to for me for meat and fish alike. After marinating the chickens all through the day, I baked them within the oven together with purple candy potatoes after which I topped the candy potatoes with butter and salt and served them with steamed inexperienced beans seasoned with garlic salt. It was a brilliant easy meal however one!

On the boys’ plates: Annie’s natural rooster nuggets with ketchup, inexperienced beans, raspberries and yogurt

  • Thursday: Basic Tso’s Rooster Stir Fry

This meal was born out of the truth that I used up all of our soy sauce/coconut aminos in Wednesday evening’s dinner. I initially deliberate to make our favourite egg roll in a bowl recipe however after I went so as to add coconut aminos to the skillet, I remembered I used all of it up the earlier night. I rapidly pivoted and used some Basic Tso’s sauce I purchased by means of Thrive Market within the skillet as an alternative and it labored effectively! Within the skillet: Floor rooster, edamame, carrots, cabbage, onion, garlic, toasted sesame oil and Kevin’s Basic Tso’s sauce!

On the boys’ plates: Scrambled eggs with buttered jelly toast, carrot slices and apple slices

  • Friday: Salmon + Sauteed Kale with Daily Harvest Curried Brown Rice + Inexperienced Chickpeas

On Wednesday evening, I participated in a night Zoom name with a bunch of influencers and a visitor chef by means of Daily Harvest. (Bachelor followers, there have been some former contestants and even a former Bachelorette on the Zoom and I stated to Ryan, “I’m wondering how I can privately DM them and fan lady a bit and he was like, “Umm, you don’t.” Strong recommendation, I suppose. I settled with texting my girlfriends a pic of the Zoom display as an alternative. Haha!) Anyway, we made dinner on the Zoom name utilizing a number of the new grains packages Day by day Harvest despatched our means. Despite the fact that I already ate dinner earlier on Wednesday evening, I primarily ate a second spherical of dinner as a result of the meal we ready was so good! Fortunately I made a double batch of the recipe and the leftovers had been a welcomed meal on Friday night, too, particularly since Chase had a soccer recreation that evening and we had been looking out for one thing fast and straightforward.

The bottom of Friday’s nights (leftover) dinner was Daily Harvest‘s new Curried Brown Rice + Inexperienced Chickpea Grains and I you higher imagine I’ll be ordering this taste from their grains choice sooner or later. It was SO GOOD. I’m significantly psyched concerning the new grains choices from Day by day Harvest as a result of they’re bigger and meant to serve a number of individuals. I’ve been ordering and loving Day by day Harvest deliveries for years and have at all times wished that they had extra family-friendly choices after I need to feed our entire gang in a busy evening. This grains combine was extremely scrumptious and tasted nice served with sautéed kale and topped with salmon and a yogurt-lemon sauce made with full-fat Greek yogurt, recent lemon juice and salt.

(I’m not positive if my code nonetheless works, however prior to now my code pbfingers would allow you to save as much as $40 off your Day by day Harvest order so it could be price a shot in the event you’re and haven’t tried Day by day Harvest earlier than!)

On the boys’ platesQuesadillas with bell pepper slices, apple slices and yogurt

Query of the Day

What was your favourite dinner of the week final week? 

Any new scrumptious must-try recipes to share?