Your Next Weeknight Meal Plan (And Weekend Cooking Project!)

What to Cook Next Week No Images? Click here   After a busy day, the last thing you want to do is spend hours in the kitchen pulling dinner together. Luckily, we have a wealth of delicious weeknight meals that will have you in and out of the kitchen in one hour or less. Meet our weekly dinner plan: Five easy dinners for five busy weeknights, all sent in advance so you can get your shopping done ahead of time. Cook along with us!   Your Week Ahead MONDAY Sicilian Eggplant and Pine Nut Caponata Packed with extra-virgin olive oil, raisins, pine nuts, herbs, vinegar, sugar, and a slew of other ingredients, caponata is the kind of dish you have to recalibrate your whole mouth for in order to really appreciate the layers of flavor. It's a great way to kick off the week.   TUESDAY Chicken Scarpariello (Braised Chicken With Sausage and Peppers) Chicken scarpariello, the Italian-American dish of chicken braised with sausage and peppers in a sweet-and-sour sauce, is one of those perfect Tuesday-night meals.  WEDNESDAY Fast and Easy Pasta With Blistered Cherry Tomato Sauce This rich, thick, flavorful cherry tomato pasta only requires four ingredients and about 10 minutes of your time, start to finish—less time than it takes to cook the pasta you're gonna serve it with. THURSDAY Sichuan Shirataki Sesame Noodle Salad Slick shirataki noodles are perfect for cold noodle salads, where their slippery texture helps keep each strand separate while simultaneously picking up plenty of flavor from a sauce of Sichuan peppercorn and chili-infused oil, black vinegar, garlic, soy sauce, and peanuts. FRIDAY Steak Tacos With Charred Corn and Sriracha These one-pot steak tacos are as easy and casual as tacos ought to be. Pair it with some ice cold beer or a killerr margarita, and you have a Friday-worthy 25-minute dinner.     Your Weekend Project Ah, the weekend. Visions of time-consuming kitchen endeavors dancing in your head all week long, and finally you have the time to pursue them. But which one to choose? Let us help you guide your efforts with what we're taking on over the weekend.  Classic Fresh Egg Pasta Making fresh pasta can be an intimidating process, especially if you're not used to working with flour and water. But it's also an imminently achievable skill, and once you're comfortable with the basic technique, there's really no reason why you can't reap the rewards on a regular basis. Make this weekend the weekend you add it to your toolbelt.     Serious Eats 88 35th St Ste 602 Brooklyn, NY 11232-2017 Click Preferences to control which emails you receive from Serious Eats. Clicking Unsubscribe will remove you from all Serious Eats emails…which would be sad. Preferences  |  Unsubscribe