🍽️ Weekly Meal Plan

Hi there and thanks for stopping by! One of my favorite types of blog posts to read is what other people eat! I love getting new quick and healthy recipes, as I detest eating the same thing over and over again. While we have a few tried and true favorite recipes, it's easy to get into a rut sometimes. I thought I'd share what we're serving up this week:

Turkey Chili-
Here's my recipe for turkey chili with lots of corn, beans, and canned tomatoes. It's the perfect recipe for using up what's in the pantry, and in about 10 minutes you can dump everything into the crock pot. All that's left to do is set up a toppings bar. This recipe makes a ton so it's perfect for freezing leftovers for dinner another night.

BBQ Salmon with Roasted Veggies-
We always have a bag of individually wrapped salmon fillets in our freezer and they bake up super quick. I love brushing a little Stubb's BBQ sauce on them when they're almost through baking (homemade is even better!) and pairing them with some veggies. We have a bunch of brussel sprouts and some sweet potatoes that need to be used up so I'll chop them with some red onion and toss in a little oil, salt, and pepper and roast it all on a cookie sheet. Quick and easy!

Crock Pot Buffalo Chicken Sliders
This is another one of my favorite crock pot recipes. You throw a bunch of ingredients together in the morning, and come dinner time you have some delicious chicken. The flavors are exactly like Buffalo wings, without the guilt! This is the recipe I use, but I leave out the ranch seasoning. We love having this chicken on King's Hawaiian rolls, and it's perfect to pair with cut up veggies and bleu cheese dressing. 

Italian Wedding Soup
Here's my recipe, which has it's own blog post. It's one of my very favorite soups, and it's always a bonus when all the food groups are covered in one bowl. A little garlic bread and a bottle of vino and voila!

Cottage Cheese Pancakes
Breakfast for dinner will always be one of my favorites, it's light, I usually have everything I need on hand, and mimosas are always a fun addition to any weeknight meal. I've been using this Whole Foods recipe for over a decade now and they're always highly requested. I love using cottage cheese to up the protein too!

What are you cooking up this week? Care to share? Comment down below, I love hearing from you!

Thanks for reading, have a fabulous day. :)

💓💓💓 PS-A very happy birthday to my Grandma on Wednesday. Love ya!

🥣 Italian Wedding Soup

Need a cozy meal in a hurry? I’ve got you covered! Italian wedding soup is called just that because it’s the perfect “marriage” of the two main ingredients, greens and meat (balls).

It’s healthy, delicious, and who doesn’t love a good one-bowl meal? We love eating soup once a week for dinner in our house and paired with some garlic bread and a glass of wine, this wedding soup is a winner!

Everyone seems to have their own version, but this is mine. This recipe can be reduced or doubled, but I usually get 6-8 decent portions. Instead of a precise recipe I’ll walk you through how I make it:

Italian Wedding Soup~

First, get your soup going. Chop an onion (put half aside for the meatballs), 3 carrots, and 3 stalks of celery. Sauté until softened in a teaspoon of oil.

Then add your chicken stock. You need 12 cups total and it depends what I have on hand. You can use frozen, boxed, whatever you have.

When the stock gets good and hot, chop an entire bag of spinach and add to the broth (frozen spinach would work well here too).

For the meatballs, I mix 1.5 lbs ground turkey, 1 egg, 1/3 c breadcrumbs, 1/3 c grated cheese, 1/2 sautéed onion, salt, pepper, and a large squirt of ketchup in a bowl. Mix and roll into tiny meatballs (small enough to fit on a soup spoon) and line up on a baking sheet covered in parchment paper. Bake about 15 minutes at 400 and plop into the soup!

While the meatballs are going, boil your pasta in a large pot of salted water. Anything small would work, we love using orzo, ditalini, or tiny shells.

Combine everything and top with some freshly grated cheese before serving. Enjoy!

Do you have a favorite soup you make for your family? Let me know down below, I love hearing from you.

Thanks for reading, have a fabulous day. :)