On the Menu April 7th- 13th

Looking for delicious meals to serve this week? On The Menu this week is packed with 47 scrumptious and seasonal recipes your family will love. You’ll find plenty of mix-and-match meal options—main dishes, side dishes, vegetables, salads, breads, and desserts—perfect for springtime cooking.

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Whether you’re in the mood for something light and fresh or warm and comforting, this week’s meal plan has you covered. Let’s get cooking!

Our freezer is stocked with lots of deer/hamburger mix. It is amazing! Thanks to a huge deer Bobby hunted last fall, I’ll use the hamburger to make The Recipe Critic’s fabulous Swedish meatballs. YUM! Thanks, Recipe Critic

Tonight’s menu starts off with an absolutely delicious salad originally from Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse.

I’ll serve the Swedish meatballs over wide egg noodles and pair them with smashed broccoli. Have you heard of it? It’s so crispy.

Swedish Meatballs with Wide Egg Noodles

Smashed Broccoli with Parmesan Cheese

Ruth Chris Chopped Salad

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I have a mostly love but a little hate relationship with Chicken. It can be scrumptiously moist and a delicious foil for other tasty ingredients, but it can also be as rubbery as a rubber chicken! It’s all about the way you treat it! The chicken in this recipe was treated to a bath of creamed spinach, layered with beautiful bacon, and dotted with cheese and mushrooms. No wonder it looks so good! I can’t wait to make this! Thanks, Julia @ Julia’s Album.

I’m serving the chicken with a family rice dish that my grandmother taught me how to make. It’s so easy, and adding just a couple ingredients to the rice makes it a stand-alone favorite. Another favorite family item on tonight’s menu is my Arugula Salad. I get requested to make it the most!

Smothered Chicken with Creamed Spinach Bacon and Mushrooms

Nani’s Sauteed Rice

Arugula Salad with Pinenuts and Shaved Parmesan Cheese

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Salad can make a great dinner. It just needs to be hearty and filling, and for us, here at StoneGable, it should also have meat! As an added bonus, this great dinner salad has some of the Southwest flavors we love! Thanks, Chungah at Damn Delicious.

BBQ Chicken Salad

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If you try one thing this week, Baja Fish Tacos should be it! We usually make these during the summer, but they are delicious any time of year!

If you don’t make your own guacamole, you are missing a culinary treat. Try my homemade guacamole recipe below. It is the best!

Baja Fish Tacos

Guacamole and Chips

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Pizza is a great weekend food for entertaining. But it’s even better if you make it homemade and serve it with a delicious Greek salad.

Mushroom Pizza with Pancetta and Caramelized Onions

The Best Greek Salad

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Growing asparagus is one of the things that Lancaster County does best! Fresh Lancaster asparagus has an amazing taste. We had beds of asparagus mounds at StoneGable, but there is not enough room in the yard to have any here at the Tanglewood House. So we rely on local farm markets we trust to provide fresh asparagus from the fields.

Tonight’s recipe is one I have made several times, and I love it for its taste and also because it is such a quick dinner—a one-pan meal! To make this recipe even more flavorful, I’m using beef stock instead of water.

Asparagus and Beef Stir Fry

Rice

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Almost every Sunday, my friend Donna comes over, and we have dinner together. Sometimes, my kids and grandkids come too, but unless she or Bobby and I are away, it’s our evening to have dinner together, catch up, and watch whatever series we are watching together. Right now, we are watching the latest season of When Calls The Heart. It moves slower than the catsup on top of the meatloaf!

Donna loves meatloaf, so I am making this delicious recipe as a main course. Thanks, Natasha from Salt And Lavender.

I’ll serve it with sour cream and chive mashed potatoes. And delicious roasted root vegetables.

For dessert, while we watch When Calls The Heart, Southern Chocolate Cobbler in a bowl with vanilla ice cream will be a treat.

Easy Meatloaf

Sour Cream and Chive Mashed Potatoes

Roasted Root Vegetables

Southern Chocolate Cobbler

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One of the things I miss most about our StoneGable home is the rhubarb. We had huge, glorious plants! I harvested those plants from late May into the summer, leaving lots of leaves on the plants to energize them for the following year’s harvest. And have more to freeze for rhubarb dishes the rest of the year!

I wish I had found this recipe earlier, as I know it would have been a family favorite. Thanks, Tricia @ Saving Room For Dessert.

Rhubarb Crumble Bars

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A strawberry lemon dessert I make when company comes for coffee.

One of my favorite chicken recipes.

I LOVE these potatoes!

This homemade salad dressing is worth making.

This beef recipe is so tender and amazing.

This high protein egg recipe.

This potato salad boasts a secret ingredient.

A layered salad to feed a crowd.

This easy soup recipe is a family favorite.

This cheese asparagus recipe.

A pretty spring slab pie.

A chicken dish that will melt in your mouth.

These tiny pastas are bathed in lemon and herbs.

A spin on a green bean casserole.

Classic French beef recipe.

This is a yes, please, vegetable dish.

You will want to make this mind-blowing salad.

This cake is named for a tiny bird.

These vegetable chips.

I can’t wait to try this baked pasta recipe.

This is a gorgeous beef recipe.

This Asian salad is a must-make.

These muffins taste like a cinnamon roll.

This delicious fried chicken that isn’t fried.

Baked potatoes done right.

Make this steak with garlic herb butter.

This salad is made with broccoli.

A no-bake blast from the past dessert everyone loves.

A crock pot chicken recipe that should be in your recipe box.

Make these meatballs at your own risk!

Delicious savory pies.

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Have a scrumptious week, Friend!