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 Pressure Cooker Butternut Squash Risotto With Frizzled Sage With the help of a pressure cooker, risotto becomes an insanely easy and hands-off dish. Here, it's loaded with layer upon layer of cold weather flavors: butternut squash, sage, brown butter, and just a hint of apple and maple syrup to round it out.   TUESDAY Caldo Verde (Portuguese Potato and Kale Soup With Sausage) Caldo verde is perfect for lazy winter nights. It's made with a few cheap and simple ingredients, it takes all of maybe 10 minutes of prep work, and it's ready to eat just half an hour later. Oh, and it's all made in a single pot, too. WEDNESDAY Scrambled Eggs With Sumac, Pine Nuts, and Parsley Crunchy toasted pine nuts and lemony sumac are great partners for eggs scrambled softly in extra-virgin olive oil. Teamed with whole wheat toast and store-bought merguez sausages, you have a quick brinner on your hands. THURSDAY Shrimp Scampi With Garlic, Red Pepper Flakes, and Herbs To get the most flavor in this shrimp scampi, we use vermouth instead of white wine and a mix of fragrant herbs—parsley, tarragon, and chives—instead of just parsley. It's a quick, easy, one-pot Italian-American classic with just enough extra flavor and flair to make it special. FRIDAY Quick and Easy Homemade Ricotta Gnocchi Potato gnocchi take a long time and are far from foolproof. Enter an easier option: Kenji's 30-minute ricotta version. It's much more failsafe and just special enough for a Friday night dinner. Perhaps alongside a big glass of red wine?     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 Baked Lasagna Bolognese (Lasagne alla Bolognese) Nothing says "winter warmer" like a big pan of homemade lasagna. Our recipe calls for homemade ragu bolognese, which boasts a hefty three-hour cook time. It's perfect for a lazy Saturday when you have time to let it simmer.     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

The Case for Homemade Teriyaki: Glazed Salmon Rice Bowls

Your Recipe of the Day No Images? Click here 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. Once you have the rice on, all you've got to do is sear the salmon, dice up some avocado and cucumber, slice a couple of scallions, and pull that leftover teriyaki sauce out of the fridge. Read More → The Kitchen Essential Furikake  The finishing touch on this rice bowl is a pinch of furikake, a Japanese rice seasoning packed with sesame seeds and seaweed. Shop Now   Serious Eats 88 35th St Ste 602 Brooklyn, NY 11232 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

What to Do With Speckled Bananas

Your Recipe of the Day No Images? Click here Creamy Banana Pudding No, no, not that banana pudding. Rather than a layered dessert of vanilla pudding with sliced bananas and vanilla wafers, this is a banana-flavored pudding. It has all the fruit and custard flavor you’d find in a scoop of banana ice cream, but instead of a cold treat, it’s a warm and comforting winter dessert. Read More → The Kitchen Essential Three-Quart Saucier This comforting custard starts with sliced bananas (and a leftover vanilla bean if you happen to have one) steeped with hot milk in a 3-quart stainless steel saucier. Shop Now   Serious Eats 88 35th St Ste 602 Brooklyn, NY 11232 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