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.

Here is a fantastic dinner planner to help get you organized for the week ahead:

Monday:  4^TH OF JULY!!! (See links above for some ideas)

Tuesday: (Meatless Monday make-up): Tomato, Roasted Pepper and Basil Strata with leftover hamburger buns, green salad with everyday salad dressing #2

Wednesday:  Fiesta salad with salsa vinaigrette, grilled steak or chicken or poached chicken

Thursday:  simple baked halibut with lemon, quinoa tabbouleh

Friday:  BBQ chicken with homemade BBQ sauce, cole slaw (I like baking chicken pieces smothered in BBQ sauce because it won’t burn like it does on the grill.)

Saturday lunch: Kale salad with creamy lemon dressing, savory muffins with roasted peppers and feta

Sunday:  California Greek salad with grilled or sautéed shrimp, hummus

 

Here’s what you can do ahead if you need to:

Make salsa vinaigrette

Make quinoa for tabbouleh

Juice lemons for tabbouleh

Make BBQ sauce

Shred cabbage/grate carrots for coleslaw

Wash and prep kale leaves

Make creamy lemon dressing

Make croutons for kale salad (if using)

Make hummus

 

Here’s a link to all my dinner planners.