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Dinner Planner: Week of August 8th

I’ve been through a range of cooking experiences over the past month, from teaching my daughter how to cook for herself to cooking for my family to cooking for 15-24 people every day while I am on Long Island. Such different strategies, but it all still requires planning ahead. In preparation for my trip back East, I took a few minutes on the plane to jot down a schedule of what to make for lunch and dinner. This year I decided I wasn’t waking up early to make everyone breakfast. 😉 It has helped tremendously and allowed me to relax much more. Plus, anyone can look at the schedule and not have to ask, “what’s for dinner???”

Here’s a great week of summer dinners to help you get organized this week:

Dinner Planner: Week of August 1st

I am so excited to go to Long Island this week to visit my family. I have been working so hard on the cookbook and really need a vacay. You’ll have to follow along on Instagram and Snapchat to see what I really make for dinner. I haven’t planned it all out yet, but there will be a pizza oven involved, vegetables from my father’s garden, and, if we’re lucky, some mussels caught by son, Mr. Picky. Cannot wait!

Dinner Planner: Week of July 25th

Sadly, this is our last week together as a family of five. 🙁 My older daughter is going away to a summer study program next week and then she’s going directly to school. So that means I have to cook some good stuff for her this week before she has to eat dining hall food every day. The peach pie jars are her favorite and really easy to whip up. We don’t eat dessert after dinner during the week as a rule, but this peach dessert is so clean and the peaches are INSANE right now. Plus, I’m being a cool mom this week.

Here’s your dinner planner for the week:

Dinner Planner: Week of July 18th

After the cookbook shoot, I found myself with tons of fresh veggies and herbs that weren’t used. So this week I am playing a game with myself called, “How to Not Grocery Shop.” I’ve done this before and it’s definitely a challenge to use only what I have on hand, but I also think it’s kind of fun to force myself to get creative. I am not expecting you to follow my wacky menu this week, so I put together a bunch of great summer dinners for you right here. Let me know if you have questions about substitutions!

Here’s your dinner plan for this week:

Dinner Planner: Week of July 11th

Thank you for all the well wishes and gracious comments on my last post. I am really excited to be working on this cookbook, although I will have a super busy summer. I have a great team in place to help me shoot the recipes for the book this week. We actually just started and I will likely not be cooking much this week since we eat whatever I’ve made on the set. But I will never forget that you are still looking for inspiration for your meal plans this week! Here are some lovely recipes to help you out:

Dinner Planner: Week of July 4th

Happy holiday weekend! Don’t you love it when a holiday falls on a Monday to give you an extra-long weekend? Love! I hope you have some fun plans and some time to relax.

I want you to be the one who brings the best food to all those barbecues this weekend! Check out my post from last year with some great menus for summer entertaining. There was also this 4th of July menu I did with Jenni Kayne a few years ago which I loved and this one which I just did this year which was also great.

Dinner Planner: Week of June 27th

I know most people aren’t thinking about what to make for dinner this week, but rather what to make for the 4th of July a week from Monday. I always used to think of July 4th as the summer being half over. Why is that? We’re just getting started and I am going to enjoy every single second of it! Do not fret about July 4th though. Take a peek at this post from last year with a dozen or so menu ideas for a fab fete!

In the meantime, here is what I’m planning on cooking this week:

Dinner Planner: Week of June 20th

Oh, how I love summer cooking! The farmers markets are so full of the most insanely delicious produce right now. If you are not seeing tomatoes, eggplant, zucchini and peaches in your area, you will be soon! This is the first week I am not making school lunch, so can I just say WOO HOO to that?!

Here’s a great dinner plan to kick off summer: