Menu du jour weeknight recipes : 48 Recipes


  • Recipe Easy Weeknight Side
    Easy Weeknight Side
    Sometimes I find that sides with our meals are harder to come up with then the actual meal! One protein packed favorite for us is Bean Salad. This is also super easy. Drain and rinse 1 can kidney beans, 1 can chickpeas, and 1 can corn (I actually[...]
  • Recipe quick weeknight meals
    quick weeknight meals
    Great responses on the NY Times eating before breakfast article. Last minute thoughts, then I?m done, promise! Important things to remember when reading a media-reported health study: the media loves sensationalist material and[...]
  • Recipe Easy Weeknight dinners
    Easy Weeknight dinners
    Hubby and I love having soup for dinner once the weather gets cooler. Well on Monday I wanted to have some of the healthy Italian Wedding soup Mom gave me awhile back (she used ground chicken for the meatballs!) but hubby is not a spinach fan,[...]
  • Recipe Weeknight Spaghetti Delight
    Weeknight Spaghetti Delight
    We're all busy and that can be one of the biggest pitfalls to eating healthy. Work deadlines, kids activities, just plain tiredness can lead us to stop at the burger joint or order a couple a pizzas for a weeknight meal.While not as easy as[...]
  • Recipe Brenda?s Breaded Chicken with Garlic-infused Olive Oil ? Perfect for a Weeknight Meal
    Brenda?s Breaded Chicken with Garlic-infused Olive Oil ? Perfect for a Weeknight Meal
    Multi-tasking. We hear so much about it in the context of work, school, parenthood. But where it is most important to me is in the kitchen. I love multi-purpose ingredients and I especially adore cooking a meal that allows me to use up ingredients I[...]
  • Recipe Chicken Piccata and Roasted Asparagus: Weeknight Chicken Will Never Be Boring Again
    Chicken Piccata and Roasted Asparagus: Weeknight Chicken Will Never Be Boring Again
    Chicken breasts are usually boring. Hum drum, forget what I'm eating, dry, what's for dessert, dull. When I'm planning my weekly menus, I rarely get inspired by chicken breasts, opting for pork, beef, and even lamb instead. Roast chickens, with[...]
  • Recipe Eggnog recipes
    Eggnog recipes
    This morning I woke up to this.  Accumulation on our balcony!  I guess I?m not going for a run today. A cold snowy morning requires a a warm and cozy breakfast! My oats included one serving of oats a[...]
  • Recipe Dreams
    Dreams
    Are you doing what you dreamed you would be doing?   I?ve always kind of dreamed of being artistic in some way and have never really been great at anything artistic.  (Just ask my dad about my singing skills) Instead I got my social[...]
  • Recipe Gnocchi
    Gnocchi
    We found this recipe in a December 2007 Real Simple Magazine.  I am a sucker for gnocchi.  Probably because I don?t get it very often!  The way the chicken was cooked made it totally tender, but the chicken skin was also really[...]
  • Recipe favorites
    favorites
    I love buying spices at my hometown health store. They seem fresher, and they?re usually less expensive than buying an entire jar. Plus, I?m nerdy, and I like making my own labels. Snobby joes are one of my favorite make-ahead meals. If[...]