Despite my best intentions and my own efforts at meal planning, lately I've become a short order cook. Maybe it's the fact that my kids are home all day and I don't have the energy for the dinner fight or maybe it's because I'm just plain tired — regardless, we've been preparing too many versions of dinner. And that's why I'm genuinely thrilled to introduce you to our new family-friendly 1-week meal plan, designed with families in mind.
What's Included?
Each 1-week PDF meal plan ($1.95) features 5 dinner recipes, 1 dessert recipe and a "weekend prep" recipe as well as a condensed shopping and equipment list. This first meal plan includes an easy fried rice, cheesy baked pasta, classic quesadillas you can dress up or down, tuna patties that are even better the second day and a nostalgic casserole that just so happens to be the most popular dinner recipe on our site! For dessert, we're keeping it simple and using up some apples we've got in the crisper. And for your "weekend prep" recipe, we're going to show you how EASY it is to make your own yogurt!
You're Juggling A Lot. Let us Help.
Now more than ever, we all have a lot going on at home. There are enough decisions to make throughout the day; the daily question of what to make for dinner (and who to make it for) shouldn't be one of them! I hope you all find this as useful as I do! Here's to easier, delicious days ahead. ~Megan Gordon, Marketing Director
Despite my best intentions and my own efforts at meal planning, lately I’ve become a short order cook.
Maybe it’s the fact that my kids are home all day and I don’t have the energy for the dinner fight or maybe it’s because I’m just plain tired — regardless, we’ve been preparing too many versions of dinner.
And that’s why I’m genuinely thrilled to introduce you to our new family-friendly 1-week meal plan, designed with families in mind.
What’s Included?
Each 1-week PDF meal plan ($1.95) features 5 dinner recipes, 1 dessert recipe and a “weekend prep” recipe as well as a condensed shopping and equipment list.
This first meal plan includes an easy fried rice, cheesy baked pasta, classic quesadillas you can dress up or down, tuna patties that are even better the second day and a nostalgic casserole that just so happens to be the most popular dinner recipe on our site! For dessert, we’re keeping it simple and using up some apples we’ve got in the crisper. And for your “weekend prep” recipe, we’re going to show you how EASY it is to make your own yogurt!
You’re Juggling A Lot. Let us Help.
Now more than ever, we all have a lot going on at home. There are enough decisions to make throughout the day; the daily question of what to make for dinner (and who to make it for) shouldn’t be one of them!
I hope you all find this as useful as I do! Here’s to easier, delicious days ahead.
Longing to travel again? Looking for new recipe inspiration? You're in the right place! You're officially invited to join us for our first ever summer cookbook club, where we'll learn about a new global cuisine each month. Our editors have been hard at work narrowing our pick for June and we think you're going to love Andrea Nguyen's gorgeous cookbook, Vietnamese Food Any Day.
I'm In! Where Should I Buy It?
For the first time ever, we're partnering with an independent bookstore, Beach Books in Seaside OR, to ship SIGNED copies right to your door. With your book purchase, you'll also receive:
Charming travel postcard designed in-house
Collection of Andrea Nguyen's favorite music to play in the kitchen
Free shipping
The chance to support an independent bookstore
When Does the Cookbook Club Start?
We'll start digging into this book on June 1 with recipe posts, ingredient spotlights, author interviews and live cooking demos, but you should go ahead and order the book now to allow for shipping time, and to give yourself a chance to peek at it beforehand.
Let's Learn Together!
We can't wait to learn more about Vietnamese food with you soon. We'll be following up with more details about the cookbook club, but for now, get yourself a copy and get excited.
Longing to travel again? Looking for new recipe inspiration? You’re in the right place!
You’re officially invited to join us for our first ever summer cookbook club, where we’ll learn about a new global cuisine each month.
Our editors have been hard at work narrowing our pick for June and we think you’re going to love Andrea Nguyen’s gorgeous cookbook, Vietnamese Food Any Day.
I’m In! Where Should I Buy It?
For the first time ever, we’re partnering with an independent bookstore, Beach Books in Seaside OR, to ship SIGNED copies right to your door. With your book purchase, you’ll also receive:
Charming travel postcard designed in-house
Collection of Andrea Nguyen’s favorite music to play in the kitchen
Free shipping
The chance to support an independent bookstore
When Does the Cookbook Club Start?
We’ll start digging into this book on June 1 with recipe posts, ingredient spotlights, author interviews and live cooking demos, but you should go ahead and order the book now to allow for shipping time, and to give yourself a chance to peek at it beforehand.
Let’s Learn Together!
We can’t wait to learn more about Vietnamese food with you soon. We’ll be following up with more details about the cookbook club, but for now, get yourself a copy and get excited.
Classic banana bread is a perfect canvas for new flavors. This Jamaican banana bread is tender and flavorful, with cinnamon, nutmeg, and—the Jamaican essential spice—pimento (aka allspice). The most memorable part? The plump, rum-soaked raisins speckled throughout every slice. Thankfully this banana bread is easy to make and comes together in no time, so you can make it this weekend!
Classic banana bread is a perfect canvas for new flavors. This Jamaican banana bread is tender and flavorful, with cinnamon, nutmeg, and—the Jamaican essential spice—pimento (aka allspice).
The most memorable part? The plump, rum-soaked raisins speckled throughout every slice.
Thankfully this banana bread is easy to make and comes together in no time, so you can make it this weekend!
While travel may be limited this summer, we can still experience new flavors through food. And this week we're excited to break out of our dinner comfort zone and explore new cuisines from the comfort of our own kitchens. We've got Greek Meatballs on tap as well as Baked Ziti, a great recipe for hungry families. The Mediterranean Chickpea Bowls make for a great lunch option and the Baked Beans are giving us a taste of summer days to come, and pair well with Polish sausages. Last, Creamy Turkey Enchiladas only requires 15 minutes of prep and make the house smell like a dream! Have a great week, friends! Feed yourself (and your people) well. P.S. Have you heard? Because we know you're all meal planners here, we're excited to tell you about our NEW monthly meal plans catered to specific diets and interests with delicious recipes and condensed shopping and ingredient lists. If you need some extra inspiration this month, we think you're going to love them!
While travel may be limited this summer, we can still experience new flavors through food. And this week we’re excited to break out of our dinner comfort zone and explore new cuisines from the comfort of our own kitchens.
We’ve got Greek Meatballs on tap as well as Baked Ziti, a great recipe for hungry families. The Mediterranean Chickpea Bowls make for a great lunch option and the Baked Beans are giving us a taste of summer days to come, and pair well with Polish sausages. Last, Creamy Turkey Enchiladas only requires 15 minutes of prep and make the house smell like a dream!
Have a great week, friends! Feed yourself (and your people) well.
P.S. Have you heard? Because we know you're all meal planners here, we're excited to tell you about our NEW monthly meal plans catered to specific diets and interests with delicious recipes and condensed shopping and ingredient lists. If you need some extra inspiration this month, we think you're going to love them!
As the reality of Covid-19 is now the new normal, we at Simply Recipes are looking for brief respites from the anxiety and uncertainty that threatens to overwhelm. We need life-affirming reminders of the power of hope, humor, and humanity in the midst of this crisis, and we're guessing you do, too! Welcome to Week 9 of the Feel Good Friday newsletter, wherein I share some of the more cheering or compelling things I've read or watched this week. Have anything you'd like to share? Email me at cambria[at]simplyrecipes.com with the title "Feel Good Friday." Thanks for being a part of our community! What I Loved This Week:
Do you love Hamilton? Never seen it and finally want to know what the fuss is all about? A filmed version of the musical with its original cast is coming to Disney + on July 3!
Umbrella is a service dedicated to coordinating deliveries, errands, and tasks for seniors - although now, during the Covid-19 crisis, they're focusing on delivering essentials like food, medicine, and supplies. What an amazing organization! They have volunteering jobs available around the US right now.
And finally: The leader singer of OK GO, Damian Kulash, and his bandmates, working separately in their homes, wrote and recorded a new song, All Together Now. He and his wife and kids all got Covid-19. They recovered, thankfully, but it was life-altering. He writes:
When the status quo evaporates, anything is possible, for better or for worse. Crises are when we learn who we are. Without our frame of reference, we reinvent ourselves. Our best and worst impulses struggle against each other anew, and while our darkest fears become more real, so do our wildest hopes. 'Change is not only possible, we are swept away by it.' ... My neighborhood, like many around the world, raises a cheer for frontline workers every evening. The ritual is more than just a show of gratitude, it's a vehicle for the kind of hope [historian Rebecca] Solnit writes of, the subtle feeling I was trying to pin down. We're telling each other we believe in one another. We're reassuring ourselves that human goodness is rugged, that our capacity to care for each other is less fragile than our individual bodies, that we can choose compassion for others over the comfort of our routines. The idea that some good may come from this time of overwhelming tragedy is a light in the dark right now. We're not delusional; we don't think optimism or compassion alone will get us through this tragic pandemic, nor do we think the better angels of our nature are predestined to be victorious. But as we wrestle with anxiety, every drop of hope is precious. We want to nurture it and share it.
Read his whole letter, and listen and watch the video here. Wishing you a healthy, hopeful weekend. -CambriaProduct and Lifestyle Director
As the reality of Covid-19 is now the new normal, we at Simply Recipes are looking for brief respites from the anxiety and uncertainty that threatens to overwhelm. We need life-affirming reminders of the power of hope, humor, and humanity in the midst of this crisis, and we’re guessing you do, too!
Welcome to Week 9 of the Feel Good Friday newsletter, wherein I share some of the more cheering or compelling things I’ve read or watched this week.
Have anything you’d like to share? Email me at cambria[at]simplyrecipes.com with the title “Feel Good Friday.” Thanks for being a part of our community!
Do you love Hamilton? Never seen it and finally want to know what the fuss is all about? A filmed version of the musical with its original cast is coming to Disney + on July 3!
Umbrella is a service dedicated to coordinating deliveries, errands, and tasks for seniors – although now, during the Covid-19 crisis, they’re focusing on delivering essentials like food, medicine, and supplies. What an amazing organization! They have volunteering jobs available around the US right now.
And finally: The leader singer of OK GO, Damian Kulash, and his bandmates, working separately in their homes, wrote and recorded a new song, All Together Now. He and his wife and kids all got Covid-19. They recovered, thankfully, but it was life-altering. He writes:
When the status quo evaporates, anything is possible, for better or for worse. Crises are when we learn who we are. Without our frame of reference, we reinvent ourselves. Our best and worst impulses struggle against each other anew, and while our darkest fears become more real, so do our wildest hopes. ‘Change is not only possible, we are swept away by it.’
… My neighborhood, like many around the world, raises a cheer for frontline workers every evening. The ritual is more than just a show of gratitude, it's a vehicle for the kind of hope [historian Rebecca] Solnit writes of, the subtle feeling I was trying to pin down. We're telling each other we believe in one another. We're reassuring ourselves that human goodness is rugged, that our capacity to care for each other is less fragile than our individual bodies, that we can choose compassion for others over the comfort of our routines.
The idea that some good may come from this time of overwhelming tragedy is a light in the dark right now. We're not delusional; we don't think optimism or compassion alone will get us through this tragic pandemic, nor do we think the better angels of our nature are predestined to be victorious. But as we wrestle with anxiety, every drop of hope is precious. We want to nurture it and share it.
Read his whole letter, and listen and watch the video here.
