Hello, everyone! Hope your Thanksgivings were delicious! Here’s this week’s menu…

MONDAY:

• Hamburgers

TUESDAY:

• Turkey a la king over rice

WEDNESDAY:

• Turkey soup with rice + homemade bread

THURSDAY:

• Leftovers

FRIDAY:

• Spicy chicken tacos

SATURDAY:

• Takeout night

SUNDAY:

• Smoked meat night + salad

Your turn! Please share your own meal plans in the comments below and have a great week!

Happy Thanksgiving Week! Today’s post is all about the Thanksgiving menu. If you care about the rest of our dinner plans for this week, it’s Hello Fresh meal kits Monday – Wednesday, then leftovers after Thursday. Pretty simple!

Okay, here is this year’s plan for Thanksgiving. I will be combining forces with my family this year, which means way less work than usual. Yippee for me!

2021 THANKSGIVING FEAST

• Turkey (dry brined, spatchcocked and roasted + a few smoked turkey breasts from Nate and my brother)
• Gravy
• Stuffing
• Mashed potatoes
• Charred greens
• Salad
• Marshmallow fruit salad
• Brown butter squash and sweet potatoes
• Homemade crescent rolls
• Squash rolls
• Cranberry sauce
• Cranberry slush (traditional family drink)
• Pumpkin pie
• Apple pie
• French silk pie
• Bread pudding

OTHER WINNING THANKSGIVING RECIPES

We aren’t cooking these recipes this year but not because we don’t love them. In fact, we love them so much it’s hard to strike them from the list! But there is already so much food on our plates, so what are ya gonna do?

• Sweet potato souffle
• Green bean casserole from scratch!
• Broccoli casserole
• Rose’s creamed onions

Your turn! Share your weekly menu plans and/or Thanksgiving menu! Have the most delicious week!

Hello! This week I’m only one day late and a dollar shot. Progress! Last week the company I work for ended up hosting a large virtual conference the same week as quarterly earnings and announcing a new CEO…and I was involved in the communications for all of it. I ended up cooking only one of our Hello Fresh kits (well, actually, my 13-yo cooked it), so this week we have a lot of Hello Fresh meals to eat. Fine by me! (And no, actually, this blog is not sponsored by Hello Fresh.)

MONDAY:

• Homemade Honduran Baleadas (thanks to my talented sister-in-law Cora – we are planning to do a post and share the recipe soon!)

TUESDAY:

• Italian chicken over lemony spaghetti

WEDNESDAY:

• Sweet chili pork bowls

THURSDAY:

• Firecracker Meatballs

FRIDAY:

• Citrus pork tacos

SATURDAY:

• Leftovers

SUNDAY:

• Cheesy smothered mushroom chicken

Your turn! Share your menus in the comments below! And THANK YOU for all your kind thoughts last week, it means so much.

HELLO. Whoah boy. 2021 has been a year. I have missed you all the last month or so. I know everyone is busy and life is hard, but for real the past several months have been a doozy in our household. All is well, but cooking dinner has fallen by the wayside and I have been dropping balls left and right, including my weekly menu planning. One of you wonderful people sent me an email this week to check in and make sure everything is okay, which was beyond sweet and thoughtful.

SO. My menu is late this week. But I’m just gonna get it published and try to hop back on this meal train! I have always firmly believed that planning and shopping at the start of the week makes life so much better. So, in the interest of my own sanity, I am going to get back to it. 

MONDAY:

• Smoked brisket with salad and cornbread

TUESDAY:

• Leftovers

WEDNESDAY:

• Rubio’s and Panda Express (real talk, y’all)

THURSDAY:

• Hello Fresh to the rescue! Italian chicken over lemony spaghetti

FRIDAY:

• More Hello Fresh! Sweet chili pork bowls

SATURDAY:

• Hello Fresh again! Mushroom chive risotto

SUNDAY:

• Smoked pork shoulder

I appreciate all of you so much! I love our little corner of the web here on This Week for Dinner. Can’t wait to see your menus and “see” all of you each week once again.