Easy May Dinners: What to Cook (May 10)
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Weeknight Dinner Meal Plan: Easy May Dinners are on this week’s menu inspired by the healthy vegetables and greens coming into season this month. We’ll be eating seasonally and deliciously all week.
Easy May Dinners
We’re well into the month of May, a month that brings a bevy of beautiful and delicious fresh produce. My garden is brimming with fresh baby greens and I’m always finding ways to add them to everything we eat right now.
This week’s Easy May Dinners are taking clues from our post on What to Cook in May. And if you want more recipes using these new-in-season vegetables, visit that post for more links and ideas.
What to Cook in May
While the May season varies by region, there are some constants. These are the most common vegetables and fruit available across the country.
Here’s a regional guide for more specifics in your area.
- Asparagus
- Broccoli
- Cabbage
- Cauliflower
- Bitter greens: Collards, kale, mustard, turnip
- Leafy greens and lettuce
- Radishes
- Rhubarb
- Spinach
- Strawberries
All of our dinner recipes this week will feature the vegetables listed above.
It’s going to be a delicious, healthy, week of eating seasonally.
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Easy May Dinners: What to Cook (May 10)
Monday: Easy Fried Rice with Broccoli Cabbage Slaw
Tuesday: Spinach, Bacon and Cheese Quiche
Wednesday: 15 Minute Lo Mein
Thursday: Garlic Butter Salmon and Swiss Chard
Friday: Unstuffed Cabbage Roll Soup
Treat: Rhubarb Cake
Easy May Dinners: What to Cook (May 10)
Monday: Easy Fried Rice with Broccoli Cabbage Slaw
Broccoli and cabbage are in season this month. Both are delicious in this easy-to-make at home, incredibly delicious fried rice that takes 10 minutes or less. And here's some awesome news-- it requires NO chopping! Simply yummy.
Tuesday: Bacon, Cheese and Spinach Quiche
Tuesday's dinner is featuring fresh spinach, in season this month. One of our most popular quiche recipes on the blog, it's a delicious weeknight dinner. And if you have leftovers, it's perfect for lunch the next day! Quick and easy prep, super yummy!
Wednesday: 15 Minute Lo Mein
This recipe packs in mushrooms for a seasonal nod to May. A quick and easy recipe, just as good as the takeout favorite, but done in 15 minutes!
Thursday: One Pan Garlic Butter Salmon and Swiss Chard
Swiss chard compliments this delicious Garlic Butter Salmon and makes it a one-pot dinner.
Friday: Unstuffed Cabbage Roll Soup
This Unstuffed Cabbage Roll Soup is everything you love about cabbage rolls, without the work or time. It's an easy, quick-cooking soup filled with the cabbage roll flavors and ingredients we love. Comfort food at its best.
Treat: Rhubarb Cake - A Simple Recipe I Wait for All Year
It's rhubarb season and we've been cooking with it for the last month. From muffins to pies to crisps. But I've yet to make the family summer tradition: Rhubarb Cake. This is the week!
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