This week's plan runs on six dinners and two make-ahead sides. Shrimp curry that keeps for days, one-hour steak tacos, and egg muffins that freeze for 3 months. Here's the menu and the prep tricks that make it work.
Two pounds of greens, one pot, about 40 minutes start to finish. This Hella Green Soup from Caroline Chambers is the good kind of simple — and it makes enough for leftovers.
I used to cook the turkey for the adults and then panic over a second, separate menu for my picky kid. These 27 dishes work for the whole table without doubling the work — and most bake while you're still on the bird.
This shrimp scampi cuts the butter, keeps every bit of flavor, and is on the table in 30 minutes. Shrimp, garlic, lemon, white wine, and Parmesan over linguine — the good kind of simple.
I may never make a plain BLT again, and it's entirely the mayo's fault. Five minutes of stirring turns it into a sandwich with real depth — 35 minutes start to finish, no fancy equipment.
Zucchini season means one thing at my house: I need a fast garlic sauce. This one-pan stir-fry takes 30 minutes start to finish, and the seared edges are the whole point.
These homemade graham crackers are crisp, lightly sweet, and properly buttery, with warm honey and cinnamon flavor. It's a 2 hour, start to finish project that pays for itself the first time you build a s'more with one.
10 minutes of prep, four hours of doing nothing, and you get a pot of beef that shreds into deeply savoury gochujang-sauced strands. This is the good kind of simple.
One foil packet, four ingredients, about 15 minutes on the grill — asparagus that's tender-crisp, never mushy, with a fork test you can set a timer by. If it doesn't fit a Tuesday night, it doesn't get published.
One pan, one batter, six to eight slices of berry-studded pancake cake. It bakes up with the soft, tender crumb of a coffee cake but tastes exactly like a pancake — and the berries burst into every single bite.