Glenda Embree: Making Homemade Easy shares easy, approachable recipes to help you create delicious weeknight dinners, I believe cooking from scratch doesn’t have to be complicated and that YOU can do it. My simple recipes, tutorials, and cooking tips will help you get weeknight dinners on the table with less stress. Forget takeout or the drive-thru. Let me show you how to make homemade easy.
Back-to-School Dinners Made Simple: Quick, Cozy Meals for Busy Weeknights
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Happy Friday Reader! Have you started to make the shift from summer to back-to-school mode? This time of year, we're all looking for ways to enjoy family dinners even when time is short. And if those meals are easy to prep, delicious comfort-food dishes that everyone loves, so much the better! Here are my suggestions to take some of the stress out of weeknight dinners as we transition back into the school year. Enjoy! Porcupine MeatballsTender, juicy meatballs studded with rice, swimming in tomato gravy. These protein-packed little flavor bombs are a winning weeknight dinner that EVERYONE loves. Serve them over mashed potatoes, rice, pasta or creamy polenta. Plop them into hoagie rolls for sub sandwiches. So many delicious possibilities! Get the Easy Recipe: Porcupine Meatballs
Creamy Chicken Tortellini with BroccoliThis 30-minute crowd-pleaser is creamy, comforting, deliciousness! It's a one-pan wonder that's so easy to prep. And everyone is going to want seconds! Get the Easy Recipe: Creamy Chicken Tortellini
Time Saving Tips for Back-to School— If you have the freezer space, pre-cook and freeze proteins like: Southwest Chicken, Juicy Baked Chicken Breasts, Slow Cooker Chicken Breasts, Ground Beef Taco Meat, Mexican Shredded Beef and Meatballs. Having them pre-cooked and chopped/shredded so they can be quickly added to a recipe for a busy weeknight meal saves so much time. Think about adding them to tacos, casseroles, salads or sandwiches. — When you think about a meal plan for your week, choose proteins that can do double duty. Cook once and have meat for multiple meals. For instance, toss a pork loin in the crock pot for easy pulled pork sandwiches. Save half the shredded pork for later in the week and use it instead of ground pork in Egg Roll Bowls. Or pile it into Hawaiian rolls and make these easy Cuban Sliders. Or crisp it in a skillet and make Carnitas tacos. What's your go-to busy weeknight dinner? Hit reply and let me know. I may get to feature it in an upcoming post. I hope you have a wonderfully blessed week and that some of these recipe suggestions will take the stress out of transitioning from summer schedules to school schedules, my friend. Enjoy your week and share a meal with the people you love most! What's For Dinner?This is the part of the newsletter where I share recipe ideas from some of my best blogging friends and myself to inspire you with what's for dinner at our houses this week. That gives you seven days worth of new recipes to inspire you for your own delicious meal plan. Enjoy!
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Glenda Embree: Making Homemade Easy shares easy, approachable recipes to help you create delicious weeknight dinners, I believe cooking from scratch doesn’t have to be complicated and that YOU can do it. My simple recipes, tutorials, and cooking tips will help you get weeknight dinners on the table with less stress. Forget takeout or the drive-thru. Let me show you how to make homemade easy.
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