Happy Saturday, and welcome to our 8th installment of This Week’s Menu Ideas, where I share the delicious and easy weeknight dinners we enjoyed this week.Ā We had a couple ofĀ misses, but lots of tasty hits that I think you’ll love.
Homemade crepes with nutella & sliced strawberries or sautƩed cinnamon apples & whipped cream
If you ask our second oldest what she wants to eat, you’ll always get the same answer: crepes! Breakfast, lunch, or dinner, she always asks for crepes. I’ve been having the kids help make our menu each week, and of course crepes were requested. We love ours with nutella, sliced strawberries, and whipped cream, but equally delicious is a filling of sautĆ©ed cinnamon and brown sugar apples topped with whipped cream. I kept going back and forth from one to the other trying to choose a favorite. And it can’t be done—they’re both so delicious! You can find the recipe for homemadeĀ crepes HERE, and the recipe for the sautĆ©ed cinnamon &Ā brown sugar apples HERE.
Spaghetti with slow-cooked bolognese sauce, ciabatta with roasted garlic, and a salad
Our oldest chose spaghetti and meat sauce for dinner this week, and I decided to try my hand at homemade bolognese. This recipe from The Kitchn for slow-cooked bolognese sauce takes a little time in the morning, but then it just simmers all day in the slow cooker, making your house smell wonderful and tempting you to peek inside. We made a buttery, savory ciabatta bread with roasted garlic to go with it. If you’ve never roasted garlic before, you’ll be impressed with how easy it is.
Barbacoa beef enchiladas, seasoned black beans, and lime-cilantro rice
We had lots of that delicious barbacoa left over from last week’s shredded beef tacos, so I froze it and used it this week in enchiladas. And they were delicious, as you would imagine! We had them with our favorite seasoned black beans and lime-cilantro rice. Now, I’ve had a few different versions of lime-cilantro rice, but this one wasn’t a keeper. In fact, we didn’t like it at all. When I find one that we think is amazing and want to make again and again, I’ll be sure to share it.
Strawberry, apple, & chicken salad with raspberry-citrus vinaigrette
This was the last lunch salad we ate this week (as in we just had it yesterday), but it was so good, I think I’ll recreate it next week too. The flavors were fresh and delicious, the combination of textures was perfect, and it was beautiful. I used red leaf lettuce, diced rotisserie chicken, sliced strawberries, diced honeycrisp apples, honey-roasted sliced almonds, crumbled feta, and a delightfully tangy raspberry-citrus vinaigrette that you can find in my new book, Scandinavian Gatherings! You’ll have to wait until the book comes out on September 27th to get your hands on it, but if you want to pre-order a copy, this post has links to online retailers where you can order itĀ today!
If you’ve been following along with this series, you’ll notice that whileĀ there are usually five recipes for easy weeknight dinners, this week we only have four. That’s because one of our recipes was a total and complete dud, and I don’t share duds. I mean, we all ate it, but I didn’t even save the leftovers, and I always save leftovers. My fingers are crossed for 5 great dinnersĀ next week!
If you need more great menu ideas, check out past week’s menus HERE. Have a wonderful weekend, and happy menu making!
AH! I love these menu posts so so much!!
Yay, Amy! Please let me know if you try any of the recipes from this series. That would make me so happy!
These posts are AMAZING! On Sunday when I’m planning the week they are where I go first. Last week we had the Spaghetti Bolo, which was the best I’ve ever had (and then had it last night in a baked ziti) and the barbacoa in tacos and on a salad. My husband is starting to think I know how to cook, which is a first. Thank you from a formerly terrible cook. š
Kara, this makes me so happy to hear!!! That bolognese is a total winner, huh! I had some leftover and froze it; now I just need to think of something worthy of it!