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Dinner Divas Weekly Menu Plan: Week 9

June 16, 2017

The Divas are back, friends! It’s Friday and that means a week’s worth of dinner recipes along with 2 extras. From pizza to pasta, we have it all this week, including a fresh tomato tart and a gorgeous salad for lighter meals.

How it works: Every Friday morning, a new meal plan will show up in your email. It will consist of 5 dinner options, plus 2 extras. Those two extras could be side dishes, dessert, drinks, etc. The Dinner Divas weekly menu plans will feature (mostly) healthy, seasonal foods that don’t take all day to prepare. Getting the weekly menu delivered to your inbox on Friday morning gives you the chance to make your shopping list and get organized for the week ahead. We’ve got so much good stuff this week! I’d love to hear from you & see your creations! Post a pic using #DinnerDivas and tag @pookspantry! I hope this weekly menu plan provides inspiration and makes life a little easier… one meal at a time.

I am over the moon for this Pork Banh Mi Burger from Girl in the Little Red Kitchen, It has everything I love in a burger. Tons of flavor!

Next is this One Pot Pasta with Fresh Tomatoes and Spinach from The Chef Next Door. I don’t know about you, but Tuesdays are always harder for me than Mondays. This is the perfect low effort meal for me.

One of my favorite (and most popular) recipes. This Heirloom Tomato and Goat Cheese Tart is a serious stunner. Although it looks quite fussy, it’s not as difficult to make as you might imagine. It’s a beautiful way to use up those luscious summer tomatoes!

This beautiful Strawberry Mango Salad with Strawberry Poppyseed Dressing from Comfortable Domestic is a great option for a light Summer dinner when it’s just too hot to cook.

Friday means PIZZA and Pastry Chef Online does not disappoint with her Sausage Gravy Pizza with Peppers and Onions.

It wouldn’t be summer without an awesome recipe for potato salad. Girl in the Little Red Kitchen brings Potato Salad with Bacon, Corn and Peppers as an extra treat this week. I would be first in line for this!

Finally, we close out the week with The Best Strawberry Shortcake from Comfortably Domestic. I can’t imagine a backyard gathering without it. What a perfect way to wrap up!

Thank you all so much for being here! Next week, our theme will be RED, WHITE & BLUE! Just in time to plan your 4th of July menu.

Remember, if you make any of these recipes, use the hashtag #DinnerDivas so we can see your creations! See you next week!

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Dinner Divas Weekly Menu Plan: Week 4

May 12, 2017

Menu planning made easier, courtesy of the Dinner Divas! Welcome back, friends! We have some really tasty stuff this week. In case you’re new here, let me tell you how it works. Every Friday morning, a new meal plan will show up in your email. It will consist of 5 dinner options, plus 2 extras. Those two extras could be side dishes, dessert, drinks, etc. The menus will feature (mostly) healthy, seasonal foods that don’t take all day to prepare. Getting the meal plan delivered to your inbox on Friday morning gives you the chance to make your shopping list and get organized for the week ahead. With all the springtime activities and summer break right around the corner, I hope this weekly meal plan provides inspiration and makes life a little easier… one meal at a time.

On to the Menu!

Starting us off this week is a Rustic Ham, Asparagus and Goat Cheese Tart from The Chef Next Door. This recipe was featured on The Chew earlier this week! Congratulations!

Next up is my Pork Burger with Hatch Chiles and Pickled Red Onions. This burger was packed with flavor and just a little heat, perfect for grilling up all summer!

The Wimpy Vegetarian brings us Baked Falafel with Spicy Moroccan Sauce! Don’t these sound fantastic?

These Vegetarian Tex-Mex Stuffed Peppers from Comfortably Domestic are colorful and full of flavor! A perfect meatless meal!

Friday night is pizza night!!! This week, Pastry Chef Online brings us Bacon and Pickled Pepper Pizza. I’m drooling over this, it is exactly what I want to eat!

Girl in the Little Red Kitchen has the most delicious Prosciutto and Melon Zucchini Noodle Salad. This is absolutely perfect for summer! I think it’ll be my go-to summer salad!

Comfortably Domestic wraps it up this week with a totally dreamy Orange Creamsicle Pound Cake. This is going on my “must make” list.

Thank you so much for being here, I hope these recipes inspire you this week! Weekly Menu Plan brought to you by:

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Food Friends

September 20, 2016

Greetings, All! I am away in Idaho this week with my friends from Idaho Potato! In lieu of posting a new recipe, I wanted to share some awesome recipes from my super talented friends.

I do hope you will check out their recipes, as I happen to think they are pretty great! Besides being amazing in the kitchen, they are good humans and I am lucky to know them. I can’t wait to tell you all about Idaho and the fun things happening there right now! I’m updating and sharing pics on social media every day, so if you want to see what we’re up to, check out my Facebook page, Instagram account or Twitter feed for the latest shenanigans.

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Tomato & Goat Cheese Tart

August 5, 2013

You know when you get a craving for something & you just have to make it? Well, I had wanted to make a tomato tart for a little while and finally got around to doing it. This post started out something like “with summer produce in full swing and a variety of perfect tomatoes available, blah, blah, blah…”

Don’t get me wrong, I could yammer on about produce with the best of them. I am a big fan of it, in case you didn’t know and let’s be honest… tomatoes are pretty amazing right now. Especially if you can get your hands on some of the gorgeous heirloom varieties. This post was supposed to be light-hearted and fun. But, life isn’t always light-heart and fun, is it? I know that some people probably just let out an audible groan… and that’s ok. If reading about things that aren’t happy and fun isn’t in your plan today, I understand. You are excused. This is about something a little deeper than a tomato tart. Thank you, wonderful farmers for providing the gorgeous tomatoes for this tart, but we are on to a more pressing issue…

I have a couple of friends that are vegetarians and had wanted to have them over for dinner so I thought “Well, this is perfect timing!” I will make the tart, have them over, open some wine and we will have a perfectly delightful evening. Only, it didn’t happen that way. Life rarely happens the way we think it will, does it?

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Hello Sunshine…

February 27, 2012

Wandering through the Farmers Market, touching, smelling and delighting over all of nature’s spring offerings is but a distant memory.
We have no less than another 6 – 8 weeks before the good stuff starts to arrive.

I had (foolishly) thought that perhaps we would make it through this “winter” without anymore blustery days… Ridiculous I know, but a girl can dream.

This is the time of year when I start yearning for the heat of summer. I want sand between my toes, the sounds of the waves crashing and the cry of the seagulls to fill my ears.

Although this winter doesn’t even begin to compare to the apocalyptic snowfalls we endured last year and all things considered I really have no right to complain; it is cold and gloomy, windy and gray.

Try as I might to summon the sunshine, a bit of citrus will have to do and for this girl it comes in the form of a tart.

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