On The Menu March 31- April 6th
Looking for delicious meals to serve this week? This On The Menu for the fourth week of March is filled with 45 fresh and flavorful recipes your family will love.
This meal plan has you covered with plenty of mix-and-match options: main dishes, side dishes, vegetables, salads, desserts, and breads, along with plenty of early spring recipes perfect for the season.
Whether you are craving a cozy comfort meal or something fresh and seasonal, this week’s menu will make dinnertime effortless and delicious. Let’s get cooking.
My sweet daughter-in-law Abby suggested this delicious recipe from Erin at Platings and Pairings! I can’t wait to try this beautiful recipe! Thanks so much, Erin!!!
Tonight’s carnitas are paired with refried beans. We love them! I came across a post about how to make canned refried beans taste like homemade. It sounds wonderful, so I’m giving it a try.
Have you ever made blender salsa? It’s so delicious and easy. And so worth the little effort it takes to make. I hope you will give it a try.
Best Instant Pot Pork Carnitas
Canned Refried Beans that Taste like Homemade
Chips and Homemade Salsa
Tonight’s menu features a classic and easy family dinner: roast chicken. It’s easy comfort food! I’m making a beautiful Garlic Herb Butter Roast Chicken from Katerina at Cafe Delites. A roast chicken is such a scrumptious and easy dinner. Once prepared, it roasts in the oven for a little over an hour! We love the leftovers, and I use the carcass to make bone broth or stock.
I’ll add celery, onion, and carrots to the roaster and let them cook in all those glorious buttery chicken juices. Writing this is making my mouth water!
For decades, I whipped potatoes with a hand-held mixer until I tried a ricer! Wow! I love the texture of mashed potatoes riced instead of whipped. They are so much lighter and fluffy! You should give a ricer a try!
Most nights, I’m not much of a dessert eater. But I saw this recipe for chocolate caramel fudge sauce and could not resist. So, I’m having a small bowl of dessert tonight.
Garlic Herb Butter Roast Chicken
Mashed Potatoes with Celery Root
Roasted Celery, Onions, and Carrots
Vanilla Ice Cream, Strawberries, and Chocolate Caramel Fudge Sauce
I make this soup a lot! If it’s not on the dinner menu, then I make it and have it for lunch. If you try one thing this week, this soup should be it. And it’s so so easy!
If you like Tex-Mex flavors, you will love this hearty soup!
WW Friendly Chicken Taco Soup
Air Fryer Corn Tortilla Strips
One of my favorite flavor profiles is Mediterranean. It reminds me of sunshine. Tonight’s dinner is glorious baked cod in a lemony sauce. I think I’ll add some capers to the recipe because cod, capers, and lemons are a tasty trio.
A big thanks to Suzy at The Mediterranean Dish! What a beautiful dish and site!
The cod dish is served with Israeli couscous that is married with mushrooms and spinach. I could make this side dish a meal! And don’t forget the Greek Salad. I think every home cook should know how to make three salads. Greek is one of my “three”.
Greek-Style Baked Cod with Lemon and Garlic
Israeli Couscous with Spinach and Mushrooms
Greek Salad
I think this recipe will be one I’ll make often this spring. So easy and so delicious! Asparagus and other yummies wrapped in boneless, skinless chicken! A big thank you to Rena at Healthy Fitness Meals! I LOVE her suggestion in this post for making chicken less chewy! It’s so true, Rena!
I’m always on the lookout for delicious recipes that use boneless, skinless chicken! I’m serving the chicken dish with a fabulous linguini bathed in cream and parmesan cheese and kissed with sundried tomatoes. I’ll be making this again soon for company. So this is a practice round.
I’m a huge fan of Green Goddess salad dressing. I fell in love with the recipe below because it uses anchovies. Anchovies are umami flavor bombs.
Easy Asparagus Stuffed Chicken Breasts
Linguine with Spinach and Sundried Tomato Cream Sauce
Salad Greens, Tomatoes, and Green Goddess Dressing
Tonight’s dinner is a tasty one!!! A big thanks fo Lauren at Tastes Better From Scratch! I love her recipes. Lauren’s recipe calls for hamburger meat. If you don’t have a hamburger, use chicken or make it with extra refried beans!
I’ll be adding shredded lettuce to the top of my Mexican pizzas! Delicious!
Mexican Pizza
Rice and Beans
Here’s a pretty way to make lasagna! Tonight is family dinner night. Everyone will love this dinner! A beautiful and delicious recipe from Chelsea at Gal On A Mission!
On Thursday’s menu I said that everyone should know how to make three salads. Greek salad is one of the three. Tonight’s salad in another one.
Spinach Lasagna Roll-Ups
Arugula Salad With Shaved Parmesan and Pepitas In A Lemon Vinaigrette
There are two things I love when it comes to something sweet: box cake or cookie mix, and lemons! A box mix for convenience, and lemons because they are acidic and pungent. This recipe has both. I am so excited to make these with my little granddaughter Emma Kate. I’m not promising they will look this gorgeous, but we will have lots of fun.
Thank you, Mique, from Thirty Handmade Days! Such a beautiful recipe!
Lemon Cookie Cups
A Starbucks inspired coffee cake
A delicious One-Pot meal
One pot Irish soup
An easy puff pastry asparagus dish
I can’t wait to make these cookies
A perfect and easy vinaigrette
This tart has everything
The prettiest looking spring rolls
A quiche with a tasty crust
The next sweet treat I’m making
Perfect spring pasta
The best chili recipe
Must try Baja fish tacos
These delicious pizza rolls
Beautiful spring quiche
An Irish skillet recipe
Light and tasty pancakes
A no-mayonnaise slaw
WW friendly soup
One pan meal
A healthy and delicious recipe
Shopping
Things to make your meals easier…
Have a scrumptious week, Friend!
Well let me tell you,you have outdone yourself. What a fantastic menu this week. Wow ,I can’t wait to start cooking. And my husband can’t wait either. Thank you.
Wow – some great choices here. I am going to fix the asparagus stuffed chicken breasts tonight. I have prepared a similar recipe of pasta with sun-dried cream sauce before – thanks for the reminder. I love having a fully stocked pantry in times like these. It makes it easier to put together creative delicious meals and not have to leave the house. I’ve always said that there aren’t too many problems that can’t be helped by a good meal. Kind of simplistic, but it does help to know that at least we can eat well.
Thank for the recipe ideas! I so look forward to seeing your recommendations!
So glad you are enjoying On The Menu!
Some of the recipe links do not go to the recipe.
So sorry, I’ll check that out.
Easy Asparagus Stuffed Chicken Breasts
Linguine with Spinach and Sundried Tomato Cream Sauce
Salad Greens, Tomatoes, and Green Goddess Dressing. this link does not go to this recipe, I would love to try this recipe, looks delish!
So sorry, I’ll check them out.