Dinner Recap

May 12, 2025

Week 3

Hi everyone! Welcome to Week 3 of Dinner Recap. Last week’s dinners were all about getting food on the table as quickly as possible without sacrificing flavor. Now that the weather is so nice, I’m looking for easy recipes that my kids will still enjoy—meals I can either prepare before we go out for the day or make quickly right before we eat.

This week’s number one recipe for me was this sausage and peppers pasta with broccoli. It came together so quickly, and there were hardly any dishes afterward. I love a good sausage pasta dish, and the addition of the broccoli was perfect. My kids scarfed this one down, and it’s definitely going into the regular rotation!

This peanut butter ground turkey stir-fry was another really quick dinner. I always make my rice in a rice cooker (one of my favorite kitchen appliances), so the chicken portion came together in under 20 minutes! I served it with string beans—my go-to vegetable side dish!

My kids love tacos in any form, so whenever I see a new taco recipe, I get so excited. This one was easy to make, but the corn on top was the star of the show. We’re also obsessed with pickled red onions, so once I saw them on these tacos, I knew I had to make them.

This shrimp dinner was so good! The bang bang sauce was the star of the show. I’m also convinced that kids will eat anything if you put it on a skewer—my kids thought these were so fun. Only half of them loved the coleslaw, but I don’t think I ate coleslaw until I was a teenager, so I didn’t really mind. I love shrimp dinners because they cook in just minutes! And as always, I made my rice in the rice cooker.

On Friday, I came home from the mall and didn’t feel like cooking an extravagant dinner. I marinated some chicken in Japanese BBQ sauce and threw it on the grill. Then I made some Momofuku noodles and a veggie stir-fry with whatever I had in the fridge. It was way better than takeout and came together super quickly!

On Saturday morning, I went to a butcher on Arthur Avenue. It’s the only place I shop for chicken breasts when I plan on making chicken cutlets—they slice them so thin, and it’s the only way we’ll eat them. So on Saturday, I made Chicken Francese, and on Sunday I had my family over for dinner and made Chicken Parm. These are both such kid-friendly dishes and probably my kids’ favorites out of all the dinners I make. I also got fresh pasta and ravioli from a place called Borgatti’s, which you can’t miss if you’re ever on Arthur Avenue!