ON THE MENU WEEK OF JAN 3RD
Need dinner ideas this week? Here are 7 scrumptious dinner menus and 31 delicous recipes for you to choose from. Choose from main dishes, side dishes, soups, salads and desserts! Bread recipes too!
Happy New Year’s Eve! This week our home will go from filled to the brim with family and fun and some toddler tantrums to quite and still. It’s always a hard adjustment for me. But life goes on as it should! So until then, I’ll be cooking big meals and soaking in every second of family time! Here’s what’s on the menu for Monday …
You can see last week’s menu here with lots and lots of delicious holiday recipes!
MONDAY
I LOVE this recipe from Dinner At The Zoo! These tacos are delicious and feed a crowd! We have more family coming tonight for dinner and these easy tacos will be the biggest hit!
I’ve made this recipe several times and it is amazingly good and easy!
TUESDAY
This gorgeous pork loin recipe comes from Victor at Craving Tasty. What a fabulous site! Just reading the recipe for today will give you such sage culinary info and the perfect way to cook pork! Thanks, Victor!
- PORK LOIN ROAST WITH MUSHROOM GRAVY
- NANI’S SAUTEED RICE
- PERFECTLY ROASTED ASPARAGUS
- EASY CHERRY CRUMB DESSERT
WEDNESDAY
Just saying the word “galette” makes my mouth water! What an easy way to make a pie! Or should I say pie-ish! Galettes can either be sweet or savory and tonight’s pie is full of amazing veggies.
I chose this recipe because we have lots of things leftover in our frig from all the family we have had since before Christmas. What a great way to use them up!
This type of galette would be delicious for breakfast, lunch or dinner.
I’m adding an easy dessert to tonight’s dinner. YUMMY!
THURSDAY
Everyone is gone today and as usual, when our kids leave, our home is a bit lonely and so are we! It is always an adjustment. So tonight I’m making a scrumptious, romantic dinner for Bobby and me.
Our favorite steak is rib eye! Oh, what flavor. And my favorite way to make it is to grill it in a cast iron pan. What a delicious recipe from Butter Your Biscuit!
- PAN SEARED GARLIC RIB EYE STEAK
- LEFTOVER NANI’S SAUTEED RICE
- ARUGULA SHAVED PARMESAN PINE NUTS IN A LEMON VINAIGRETTE
FRIDAY
Today is the first normal workday for me since December 17th! With our children and grandbabies here I wanted to spend as much time as I could with them.
I’m quite excited to have a full day of work. After 12 years I still love what I do! Thank you!
We love soup at our home and tonight I’m making my grandmother’s Nani’s Pork and Cabbage Soup. This soup brings back so many memories of Nani’s humble kitchen! As a child we moved so much, as many military families do, when I think of my home I think of my grandmother’s home on Oak Street!
SATURDAY
I can’t wait to make this delicious-looking cod dish from Foodness Gracious! Thanks, Gerry! I’ll be putting this yumminess over pasta for Bobby!
Cod is one of the most versatile of all fish. It’s white and meaty and mild and flaky. And it can be prepared in so many ways!
Cod is one of those fish that even people that aren’t particularly fond of fish will try. And who would not want it prepared like this?
SUNDAY- COMPANY’S COMING
We are having a few friends over for dinner tonight. For the most part, I no longer make 5-course fancy dinners! Too much work! Now my favorite dinner party is for six and a great dinner I can prep ahead.
I’ve made this dish a few times for company and it is really easy and delicious! What a great dish to put over a bed of couscous pilaf! See this winner, winner chicken dinner at Eatwell 101.
- FRENCH ONION CHICKEN CASSEROLE
- COUSCOUS PILAF WITH SAUTEED MUSHROOMS
- GARLIC PARMESAN ROASTED GREEN BEANS
SWEET TREAT OF THE WEEK
I’ve known about this cake for decades but have never made it! This famous cake is so moist and the icing is fudgy and gooey! YUM!
A wonderful recipe from Krissy at Self Proclaimed Foodie!
MORE RECIPES I’D LOVE TO MAKE…
Baked Spaghetti is a family recipe from my friend Ann at On Sutton Place.
You must try my Delicious Chili Stew!
This Chicken Broccoli and Noodle Casserole from Skinny Taste looks so yummy.
I’ve got to make these Air Fryer Cinnamon Roll Bites!
Another must-try recipe for me WW Chicken Enchilada Bake.
Roasted Cream Cauliflower Parmesan Soup sounds just about right for a cold day!
Nani’s Sauteed Chicken is another main dish for a cold day!
Cranberry Beef Bourguignon is a twist of a classic that sounds amazing!
I am such a fan of Braised Beef Short Ribs!
I’m so into bread baking. Have you tried any no-knead recipes? Here’s a gorgeous No-Knead Cheaters Sourdough Bread.
I’m giving these Simple Oatmeal Protein Cookies a try for breakfast with coffee.
And how about Maple Pecan Baked Oatmeal.
This year I’m cooking the classics! Let’s start with Julia Child’s French Onion Soup.
Have a scrumptious week, sweet friends!
Thanks for all the great recipes and ideas throughout the year. I also love the Bible lessons. You have ignited a desire to go to the Holy Land in me thru your descriptions last Easter. I love your new home and look forward to downsizing myself soon. Through your warm posts I feel like I have a close friend in Lancaster County!!! Love to you and Bobby and Happy New Year from Arkansas.
Oh, I pray you will get to the Holy Land, Vicki! It is life changing.
I have been making your Minestrone soup for years! We love it. And many other of your recipes.
Thank you for sharing your menus and all your decor inspiration.
Happy 2020.
Betsy
Hi Betsy! I’m so glad you like the soup! Happy New Year!
So sorry to hear about your New Year’s Eve “adventure.” I think all of us would totally understand you taking a few days off to recover. Take care of yourself in 2022. You are important to a lot of us. We start our days off with a cup of coffee reading your email and getting inspired to cook, decorate, sew, etc. Bless you!
So glad you are feeling better and not in the hospital-
Take care and Happy New Year (do over?)
While there’s never a good time to be sick in a full ER, NYE might be at the top of the list for ‘most unfortunate timing’. Happy to hear you’re on the mend! I always enjoy your menu posts and of your recipes that I’ve tried each has turned out to be a big hit with the family. Wishing you a healthy and happy 2022, Yvonne!
Sending prayers for a speedy recovery and good health for 2022??
We need your inspiration in our daily lives…especially on Sundays.
Happy New Year to you and Bobby!
God bless you Susan!
I am so glad that you are feeling better! Thank you for all of these wonderful recipes. I make your cod piccata recipe all the time. It is one of my favorites. I am excited to try the cod citrus basil recipe. Happy New Year!
Your menu plans are always so wonderful. I would love for u to publish a cookbook. Even if other bloggers have contributed their recipes. I just love reading your plan each week and trying some of your recipes. Everyone jas been delicious.
Hi Missy, I just don’t know where I would find the time! So every week I’ll try to bring lots of yummy seasonal recipes to you!
Hi Yvonne, I was very worried when I heard that youhave been in hospital! I hope everything is fine by now. Please take better care of yourself.
A big hug from Germany by Heike
OH, no! Hope you are feeling much better. Yes, the ER is the worst…spent 4 hours there this summer and did not even get seen! Hope you are on the mend and in for a wonderful new year! Love all the recipes and ideas you share!
Thank you for another great year of wonderful recipes and house decorating tips. So sorry you were sick for New Year’s Eve…I feel your pain. Spent a New Year’s Eve in the emergency room too…only with kidney stones…ouch. Happy New Year to you and your family.
Oh my goodness! I hope it passed!
So sorry to hear of your unfortunate trip to the ER.Happy you are feeling better.Wishing you and your family health, happiness and peace for the New Year.Looking forward to many more of your decorating blogs.
Doreen, God bless you and your family in 2022
So sorry to hear that you were so sick! Hope you are on the mend. This is another week of delicious recipes. I am going to the store tomorrow to see if they have any bags of cranberries left to make HBH’s cranberry beef bourguignon recipe. Might pair that with her Cheater’s Sourdough no knead bread. Yum. Everything I make of hers turns out well, and her photos are works of art.
Also liked the baked taco recipe. Make baked tacos almost all the time. So easy to assemble and everyone can garnish theirs as they choose when the come out of the oven. Some like their refried beams on the side, so I don’t layer all with the beans. Toppings after they come out of the oven I close salsa, lettuce, cheese for those who like extra, sliced olives, chopped avacado & sour cream. Perfect for a taco bar. Feel better & Happy New Year
Your comment is making me hungry!
Hi Yvonne, so glad to hear you are much better, I too was in the hospital. The Lord was there with us.!
God bless you Debbie! Being in the hospital over a holiday is NO FUN!
I am so sorry that you were ill, and I hope you are feeling much better, and are home from the hospital now. Prayers for a full and speedy recovery.
I’m feeling stronger every day!
Praise God Yvonne that you are better . Our New Year’s Eve was spent in total darkness , as we were in the countryside where a transformer blew due to the heatwave in Melbourne . God used the darkness to speak to me as we prayed the New Year in . He uses everything to speak to us .
You put your time in the darkness to good use.