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 Lighter Fettuccine Alfredo Let's face it: The feeling you get after downing a bowl of creamy, cheesy fettuccine Alfredo ain't the best. Wouldn't it be great to have a quick and easy version that's just as good, but has a cleaner flavor and doesn't leave you in a food coma? Well, here it is.   TUESDAY Steamed Mussels With Thai-Style Coconut-Curry Broth Mussels are the easiest choose-your-own-adventure one-pot meal around. For this Thai-style version, all it takes is some curry paste, some coconut milk, and a few other odds and ends.  WEDNESDAY Crispy Braised Chicken Thighs With Cabbage and Bacon Braising chicken with crispy skin is one of those riff-able techniques you return to time and time again for weeknight inspiration. This time, we pair it with cabbage and bacon for a hearty meal. THURSDAY DIY Instant Noodles With Vegetables and Miso-Sesame Broth This vegan pot of instant noodles, flavored with miso and sesame and loaded with fresh vegetables, can be made ahead and eaten at the last minute, just-add-water style. It's the perfect quick and easy dinner to push you into the final stretch of the week. FRIDAY Really Awesome Black Bean Burgers These black bean burgers have a complex, satisfying flavor and robustly meaty texture that even devout carnivores will love (seriously, try them with bacon on top). The mixture comes together in just 25 minutes and can be made indoors in a skillet, because it snowed a lot in some places this week.     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 guide your efforts with what we're taking on over the weekend.  Osso Buco (Italian Braised Veal Shanks) This slow-braised osso buco is the definition of a hearty Sunday supper. Get it going around brunch time, and have your week off to a great start by dinner.      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