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 Pesto alla Trapanese (Sicilian Pesto With Almonds and Tomatoes) Believe it or not, pink pesto actually has a lot in common with its better-known green cousin. It's also full of basil, garlic, olive oil, and cheese. But the addition of tomatoes and the use of almonds instead of pine nuts make it one of a kind.    TUESDAY Grilled Strip Steak With Creamy Yogurt Sauce and Tomato-Cucumber Salad Sometimes when you want the perfect cut of steak, you've got to do it yourself. For this recipe, we cut New York strip steaks in half crosswise before putting them on the grill. And, to make it a meal with just the right balance of hearty and light, we serve the steak with a yogurt sauce and a crunchy tomato-and-cucumber salad.  WEDNESDAY Steak and Corn Salad With Salsa Verde Turn last night's leftover steak into a refreshing and satisfying salad by slicing it up and pairing it with corn and Spanish salsa verde. Simply toss the sliced meat with steamed or grilled corn, red onion, and the salsa, which is a mixture of pickles, capers, anchovies, fresh herbs, and lots of olive oil.  THURSDAY Chicken Massaman Curry With Wheat Beer and Potatoes Skip the heat and keep the spice with this chicken massaman curry. To make this warm and flavorful dish, the curry paste is mixed with Belgian-style beer and stock to make a base for the other ingredients: coconut milk, chicken, potatoes, and red onions. Serve it over rice, and garnish with cilantro and lime slices. FRIDAY Sichuan Peppercorn Burgers  If you've ever had the Tibetan beef dumplings known as momo, you'll probably like these inspired beef burgers, which are seasoned with Sichuan peppercorn and topped with chili-ginger mayo and pickles. Conversely, if you like these (and we bet you will), you should probably try momo.       Your Weekend Project Ah, the weekend. Visions of time-consuming kitchen endeavors have been 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.  Easy Oven-Cooked Pulled Pork A few simple steps make this pulled pork stand out—and a worthy candidate for your time. First off, ditch the bottled BBQ sauce and go the homemade route. From there, be careful to moderate your addition of the sauce to get meat that's neither too wet nor too dry. Finally, be patient as it cooks to tender perfection in a Dutch oven. It'll be worth the wait.      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

Spinach and Artichoke Dip Baked Potatoes

Your Recipe of the Day No Images? Click here Spinach and Artichoke Dip Baked Potatoes Potato chips with spinach and artichoke dip is quintessential party food, but swap out the chips for Daniel's ultimate baked potatoes, and suddenly the combination is perfect for a weekday dinner. By scooping out the potato flesh and mashing it with the dip before re-stuffing, you get a ton of flavor in every bite of baked potato. Read More → The Kitchen Essential Mixing Bowls Scooping out the flesh and mashing it with flavorings in a large mixing bowl, then refilling the skin, guarantees that every bite is delicious. Shop Now   More Ways to Elevate Your Baked Potatoes The Best Roast Potatoes Extra-Crispy Herb-Roasted New Potatoes   Japanese Potato Salad Vegan Cheesy Baked Potatoes   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

How to Make Strawberry Cake With All-Natural Flavor

Your Recipe of the Day No Images? Click here Strawberry Cake With Real Fruit This pale-pink layer cake is made from both fresh strawberry purée and freeze-dried strawberries pulverized into a fine powder. That double whammy gives the cake an all-natural flavor and color, without interfering with its light and fluffy crumb. You can finish it with anything from our Swiss buttercream to strawberry whipped cream, but we love it best with tangy cream cheese frosting to highlight the tart strawberries. Read More → The Kitchen Essential Fat Daddio's Cake Pans Good cake pans are essential for making better cake. They don't have to be expensive, but they do have to be good at steadily conducting heat, large enough to contain the rising batter, and light enough to keep the crust delicate. See our guide for more tips on choosing the best pans.  Shop Now   More Ways to Use Freeze-Dried Fruit Chocolate Cherry Layer Cake Banana Granola   Strawberry Shortcake Ice Cream Bars No-Bake Cheesecake With Freeze-Dried Fruit   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