Tonight for dinner I made a big salad (I know, SHOOT ME - lettuce/kale I grew myself) I take and bake or air fry some of the Bare chicken from Costco, chop it up and put on a bed of greens with other chopped veggies, olives, cheese, seeds or nuts and a small piece of toasted sourdough with good butter or olive oil and tear it up in the salad. Always these ingredients, always the Bare Chicken.
We eat this nearly once a week. Never get tired of it, so satisfying.
What’s the one specific meal/recipe you do or could eat weekly without much change. Saying something like “pasta” doesn’t count - it should be specific. I didn’t just say salad, I detailed the way I eat it weekly.
Your go-to, in the weekly rotation pretty much without fail and you don’t tire of it.
Turkey ground meatballs baked in the oven for 20 minutes on 400F. The easiest low calorie recipe. Never get tired of it. Leftovers good hot or cold. Serve over salad, pasta, rice, etc
Wild caught Alaska salmon marinated in Teriyaki sauce, with Caesar salad or asparagus. In colder months if we are hungry meal will include baked potatoes.
Most Sunday nights we make a chicken curry, of a specific type named after the city I grew up in. Never had a restaurant curry in the US that’s as good.
Another favorite is a slow-roasted salmon (we prefer it this way to the usual faster cooking at high heat), various recipes. I chanced on this one one day while flipping through tv channels Cook's Country: Slow-Roasted Salmon with Chives and Lemon (Ep 1413) and it is really nice, or with orange and lemon slices and drizzled in oil, or with chili crisp.
Pasta with pesto (and of course Parmesan cheese). The other ingredients vary somewhat, as does the type of pasta. I am personally fond of pine nuts on the pasta and pesto.
We grow quite a bit of basil to make the pesto, and freeze it.
We don’t eat a lot of red meat, probably once or twice a week, so our weekly fancy pants meal is grilled filet mignon with a side of asparagus or zucchini. Another always in the rotation meal is baked or cedar planked salmon with some salad.
I could eat most types of stew pretty much weekly. I enjoy the pork shoulder with tomatoes and green olives and root vegetable stew as well as pot roast stew with potatoes and carrots. The stews are fine made in the instant pot but even more delicious when made on the stovetop. My husband and I could eat this for multiple meals in a week.
Poke or sashimi (generally ahi) over rice with a simple tossed green salad is also a nice and easy meal we eat often when the kids are around or when we’re too lazy to cook. We can easily eat this weekly.
DH and I eat the same huge salad for lunch every day. We also have grilled salmon and steamed broccoli at least once a week, so I guess we already have that routine. What I would LOVE to eat weekly and what I DO eat weekly might not be the same thing, though.
Another salmon family here. We have it at least once a week. First round is grilled salmon with sides. Leftover salmon is put into a delicious tossed salad.
We have grilled wild-caught salmon once a week. We also have Omaha Steak burgers (on buns from an Italian bakery) once a week, and we often have pizza one night. We have chicken the other nights, although I try to slip in a meatless meal as often as possible (much to H’s chagrin). We’re not gourmet folks, clearly … although we do enjoy adventurous food when we go out for dinner (which isn’t often).
I’m lucky enough to live in New England, so I take advantage of it. I have multiple allergies, and don’t eat red meat so going out is tough, so I indulge myself once a week with a lobster that I have my local store steam for me while I am shopping.
I hate cooking a meal after shopping and putting everything away, so I bring home a lobster for me and hamburgers for the rest of the family. I couldn’t make a nice fresh burger and fries for less than what I pay for them at the store grill. $2.99 for a high quality burger.
The only time I don’t get lobster is if it’s over $12/lb. Considering it’s usually around $8, I just won’t do it. I get steamers instead.
Salmon here as well. We have a subscription delivery - I love the skin crispy and just sauteed in a little olive/avocado oil on the stove top until medium done basting at the end with pure butter so inside is mild and buttery texture. Like Atlantic farmed (good farming source) or wild caught Coho. Switch them up a bit.
- lettuce/kale I grew myself) I take and bake or air fry some of the Bare chicken from Costco, chop it up and put on a bed of greens with other chopped veggies, olives, cheese, seeds or nuts and a small piece of toasted sourdough with good butter or olive oil and tear it up in the salad. Always these ingredients, always the Bare Chicken.
