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 Sopa de Lima (Yucatán-Style Lime Soup) This variation on the Yucatan favorite is essentially elevated tortilla soup, straight up with a twist. Make it an even easier Monday meal by using store-bought chicken stock.   TUESDAY Phat Phrik Khing With Tofu and Long Beans (Thai Dry-Curry Stir-Fry) Stroll by a curry vendor in a Thai food court and you'll spot this standout curry: phat phrik khing. It's served dry, coated in curry paste, with any combination of meat and vegetables, but we love the traditional tofu and long beans. WEDNESDAY Easy Teriyaki-Glazed Salmon, Cucumber, and Avocado Rice Bowls Having a batch of teriyaki sauce in your fridge at all times (it lasts forever) allows you to pull together a dinner like this rice bowl with teriyaki-glazed salmon and avocado in the amount of time it takes to steam a pot of rice.  THURSDAY Pasta Con le Sarde (Sicilian Pasta With Sardines) A classic pasta from Palermo in Siciliy, pasta con le sarde (pasta with sardines) features long bucatini or spaghetti in a slick, luscious, and fragrant sauce made from onions, fennel, raisins, pine nuts, anchovies, sardines, and saffron. Instead of cheese, toasted and seasoned bread crumbs grace the plate. Hello, almost-weekend. FRIDAY The Best Moules Marinières (Sailor-Style Mussels) Our moules marines are the ideal TGIF dinner. Made with fresh, inexpensive ingredients that still seem celebratory, this dish comes together in around 15 minutes from start to finish. Don't forget to pick up a crusty loaf of sourdough for dipping in that luxurious sauce.     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.  BraveTart's Easy, Old-Fashioned Apple Pie  This is a supremely low-key approach to apple pie: no precooking the apples or reducing their "juices" on the stove. The time-consuming element comes in to the baking, where we opted for the low-and-slow route, which gives the crust time to turn golden and crisp without overcooking the apples.     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