I just spent a good long while searching through my archives for the words “sheet pan” because I already know that I have energy enough this week for ONE PAN and no more.
There’s no reason for the lack of energy. Just, you know, the usual meal-planning dread and dismay.
If you have a favorite one-pan meal, I would be delighted to hear about it. (Omitted from today’s list are two favorites: sheet pan Cuban chicken, which I heard about from Ernie a million years ago and which is delicious but which is similar to something we ate this weekend, and sheet pan chili chicken with sweet potatoes, which is scrumptious but has as an essential component a cilantro yogurt sauce.)
Dinners for the Week of May 15-21
- Sheet Pan Tandoori Chicken and Cauliflower: This is exactly what I want to eat this week, but the marinade contains yogurt. So… I am either going to try a non-dairy yogurt or I will omit the yogurt entirely.
- Sheet Pan Teriyaki Salmon with Green Beans: I don’t love roasted green beans, but green beans are plentiful at the grocery store right now and this is so easy I hardly have to think about it which is a quality I am prioritizing more and more often these days. I may swap the salmon for chicken; we’ll see.
- Sheet Pan Garlic Butter Chicken and Potatoes: This has feta, but I can omit it from my portion. I don’t know if I’m in the mood for potatoes, either, which makes this an odd choice. But I figure I can swap in broccoli or zucchini and it will be just as tasty. Or perhaps I will scrap the entire recipe and go with this recipe for Mediterranean Chicken and Veggies instead.
- Summer Chipotle Chicken Salad with Cilantro Dressing: This will be my reach meal this week – maybe I can aim to make it this weekend? It just sounds SO fresh and summery.
If you want to add to your sheet pan meal rotation, we also like this one:
https://www.eatingwell.com/recipe/279229/sheet-pan-balsamic-parmesan-roasted-chickpeas-vegetables/
It’s vegetarian, so maybe it wouldn’t work in your house for a complete meal, but it’s So. Good.
Looks delicious! I will add it to my to-try folder. Thanks!
My “meal plan” for this week is that when the leftovers from the birthday party that we had this weekend are finished…the other members of the family can plan the rest! Maybe next week I’ll be up to planning for a real meal;-)
This sounds like an excellent meal plan!
Sheet pan chicken fajitas are a win over here!
https://www.budgetbytes.com/oven-fajitas/
Yes, always yummy!
I like all your planned dinners this week. The flavors call to me. When should I be over for dinner?
Yes, I’ll set an extra place at the table! 😉
This is fun! Sheet pan! I don’t have any good recipes for you but these look great!
Yay sheet pan! I bought a lot of cauliflower this week which always makes me think fondly of you!
Does it count as dinner if I eat a handful of gummy bears? Asking for a friend…
Gummy bears sound like a pretty ideal dinner, honestly!
I make sheet pan meals way too infrequently for how much I love the concept. I’m alone this week, so I’m going to be able to stretch the pomegranate salad with cut-up steak that I brought home as leftovers from my mom and dad’s for most of it.
Ugh, I have a ton of meal prep to do over the next couple of days. My son and his roommate will be arriving and the roommate is staying for several days, and they are going to EAT ME OUT OF HOUSE AND HOME. I want to have lots of things ready for them to eat, that they can just take out of the fridge when they want it. I’m going to go back and look at your master list of meals- I remember there were a bunch of things on there that I wanted to make.
Oh jeez, Jenny — I can imagine feeding two extra men will require a LOT of food!
Oh how we do enjoy that Cuban sheet pan chicken recipe. I made a huge batch of a vegetable potato dish with balsamic, olive oil, oregano, basil, and salt and pepper. Now I just need to come up with a meat to serve with it every night. Tonight it was a chicken breast. With college kids arriving home, I’m gonna need to start coming up with more meals. The cook once a week and mix in a Costco rotisserie chicken and a few leftovers isn’t gonna cut it.
Oh gosh, now you have to adjust the OTHER way! Hopefully it is easy to get back into the routine.
LOVE that you are just LEANING IN to the sheet pans this week. I am new to these and really do love them. My friends makes this one, and I have been wanting to give it a whirl because it just looks so EASY https://gimmedelicious.com/20-minute-sheet-pan-healthy-sausage-and-veggies/
Oooh that looks like a good one! Thanks!
I used to like to roast a sheet pan full of root vegetables (potatoes, sweet potatoes, carrots, beets) with olive oil and rosemary at 300 degrees for an hour and 45 minutes, then mix in some goat cheese or fake meat for protein when they were done. It’s too carb-heavy to work for me now, but it’s simple and delicious. You’d need different proteins, I guess.
Yes! I love a good root veggie sheet pan!
Ah yes, the beauty of being alone! That sounds delicious.
I would just skip the yogurt in the first recipe because the non-dairy versions tend to have a taste to them that probably wouldn’t be complimentary to the meal? That was my chief complaint w/ dairy free alternatives – they weren’t neutral, like I couldn’t use almond milk when making scrambled eggs because they would impact the taste. But these meals all sound great and I need to remember to look at your posts when I am meal planning to come up with some new ideas. This week I made an egg bake that yields 8 servings so will last quite awhile and then yesterday I made a ragu sauce for pasta that includes pureed carrots and celery so I can sneakily get my kids to eat some veggies (on pasta for the boys, on zoodles for me), although I discovered last week that Will eats baby carrots so that’s encouraging. Paul won’t of course. That’s it for meals this week as we leave on Friday morning to head to my parents for my grandma’s 100th (!!!) birthday party! I’m really excited to see family and celebrate my grandma.
I thought of another protein suggestion for you – have you tried RX bars? They have 12g of protein. They have a unique consistency, though, so they kind of stick to your teeth but I like the chocolate sea salt flavor.
Holy Sheet, Suzanne!
I need that Chipotle Chicken Salad NOW!!
I am a big fan of easy one pot or one pan meals and would not sneer at a casserole! I don’t know if this fits your plan, but I have two dishes that I often make if I am feeling the one pan dinner. The first is a recipe from college and it just involves a bunch of whatever veggies you have on hand, but I used to love the combo of broccoli, cauliflower and potato. Yes, this is a carb heavy meal, but it has nutrition! You chop all of the veggies roughly and put in a 9×13 with olive oil, salt, pepper, garlic (Italian seasoning could work too) and you roast it for about 20-30 mins in the oven, stirring occasionally. Once done, I normally put feta, but you can omit that for yours. I know it sounds like a side dish, so I guess you could add tofu or chicken cubes either in the pan or on the side, but I am personally happy eating just veggies for dinner!
The other is a “frittata.” Mix 10-12 eggs in a bowl with a splash of water, add chopped veggies (usually I use what I have on hand, but am a fan of broccoli, potatoes cut small, spinach, mushroom), meat (sausage works well and is usually precooked), artichoke hearts, olives (I use canned, but the world is your oyster) etc. Put in a olive oil greased 9×13 pan and bake at 375 for about 30 mins or until the knife comes out clean from the middle of the pan.
I have made two of your dinners this past week – the chili chicken with sweet potatoes & Baked Gnocchi with vegetables (no dairy!). Thank you! Eliminating dairy is really difficult- good luck on that. I make sheet pan fajitas – really easy and dairy free. No recipe; just slice up all your peppers, onions & chicken, toss with Mexican spice and roast. You have to skip the sour cream topping but I never have that in the house. I can attest it’s still good without dairy.
I must make the summer chipotle salad- this sounds so yummy! This week we definitely ate… something… but I honestly don’t remember, that’s how uneventful our dinners are 😉
Reading Lisa’s comment re: the non-dairy milks reminded me – and not sure if you’re still non-dairying, but just in case – have you tried pea milk? Ripple unsweetened original is the best option I have found that does not taste like, well, something else, and also has protein (ta da!). I think they (well, not Ripple, but some other company/companies) may make pea yogurt, too. If not, I’ve found Nancy’s oat milk to be a decent non-dairy plain yogurt (And it has some protein, too).
Anyway! As I always say, I do not envy you, having to cook for others. Hang in there…
Thanks, Anne! I am still non-dairying, but I am finding it much easier to avoid yogurt/milk than to try to replace it with anything. (I have tried cashew milk, which is good but high in calories, coconut yogurt which was good as a substitute for regular yogurt in the one recipe I tried, almond yogurt, which I do not care for, and almond sour cream which I found so off-putting I ditched it immediately. I have in the past tried macadamia nut milk, which I like okay but which has little protein, and almond milk, which I quite like, but which also has little protein.) I don’t really NEED dairy in my life, beyond the occasional cheese, and was really eating so much of it because it was an easy, low-cal source of protein. But the non-dairy options have so much less protein, it’s not really a comparison.