Take the guesswork out of ‘What’s for dinner?’ with Melissa Bahen’s Farmhouse Weeknights and over 80 nutritious recipes to help busy home cooks get dinner on the table for their hungry families in an hour or less.
I have a new cookbook to share and giveaway:
* Farmhouse Weeknights: Quick and Wholesome Recipes for Dinner
by Melissa Bahen
Farmhouse Weeknights: Quick and Wholesome Recipes for Dinner takes the brainwork out of deciding on your family’s dinner plan. Melissa Bahen offers a compilation of time-tested, wholesome comfort-food recipes straight from the kitchen in her farmhouse to your table. This cookbook focuses on fresh ingredients and making meals from scratch, but it also embraces smart shortcuts and time-saving tips that will help readers get dinner on the table with less work.
Every recipe in the book carries the promise of having dinner ready in under an hour, (except for slow-cooker recipes that only require prep time and are then hands-off all day), and comes with serving suggestions to make a complete meal, with a list of time savers.
You will find recipes for breakfast for dinner; soups; salads; sandwiches; pastas;
slow-cooker main courses; skillets, sheet pans, and bakes; and after-dinner treats.
Lots of recipes that caught my eye in the soup category: White Bean & Ham, Garden Minestrone, Creamy Tomato Cheese Soup, Lulu the Baker’s Famous Cheesy Chowder, Chicken Tortilla and Taco Soup
A big salad for dinner has so many good things going for it. A salad is easy for household members to customize to their liking. You can make it as hearty or as light as you want based on your dinner needs for the day. And salads are full of layers of color, texture and flavor.
Emily’s South Lane Chopped Salad with Cilantro-Lime Vinaigrette . . .
Loaded Lemony Caesar Salad
Italian Pasta Salad
In the sandwiches category . . .
How about a Caprese Grilled Cheese?
Chicken Pesto Panini
A couple of the pastas offered: Shrimp Scampi (with a surprising ingredient!)
and One-Pan Weeknight Lasagna
In the Skillets, Sheet Pans & Bakes:
Crispy Chicken Parmesan had me drooling!
Some After-Dinner Treats to satisfy your sweet tooth: Oatmeal Toffee Cookies, Easy Peanut Butter Cup Brownies, Aunty Myrl’s German Cookies. . .
And last, but not least, S’mores Bars!
Gibbs Smith Publisher has provided me a copy of Farmhouse Weeknights to give away to one reader.
🍽️ For a chance to win a copy, tell me one of your favorite weeknight dinners.
This giveaway is open to those living in the continental U.S. through midnight August 4th.
THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED.
Congratulations Cindy D!
Melissa Bahen started Lulu the Baker in 2008, a popular online source for recipes, projects, and snapshots of modern country life. Since then, she has published Scandinavian Gatherings: From Afternoon Fika to Midsummer Feast and Farmhouse Weekends: Menus for Relaxing Country Meals All Year Long. She lives in the rolling hills of western Oregon with her husband, four children, seven chickens, three bunnies, and a handful of beehives.
* As an Amazon associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. If you purchase anything through an affiliate link, I earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you to Gibbs Smith Publisher for providing a copy of Farmhouse Weeknights for my review and giveaway.
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So many delicious dishes……My favorite dinner would always include cheese!
Mary, this is such a beautiful book! Every recipe looks and sounds delicious! Our favorite weeknight dinner, or most requested,
Is sausage stuffed shells with a garden salad and homemade bread.
Thanks for sharing this opportunity for the cookbook!
I love bbq chicken with grilled vegetables. I love trying new recipes. This book looks amazing. Thank you for all your information, insight and recipes. I love to see what you will create next!
Taco soup with all the toppings along with a simple salad. Our family loves a garlic dill romaine salad.
It’s always a family favorite the night I make tacos!
Spaghetti….sometimes no meat ( my fav) most times meat sauce to keep hubby happy, bread and a salad. Some weeks it’s homemade sourdough bread or an easy home baked artisan bread. Being retired makes cooking and baking easier! I love the cookbook!
One of my favorites is a simple Italian soup with browned individual ribs, quality stock, tomatoes, white beans, carrots, celery and a heel of parmesan with all the necessary spices. It can simmer for much of the day and served with thick slabs of hearty bread it just says…Yum!
I love any help for quick and healthy meals!!!
Favorite dinner for me – Seafood of any type!!!
My go to for a quick meal is gnocchi with spinach. mushrooms and canned diced tomatoes.
When my kids were growing up, we always had some type of spaghetti dinner each week. Spaghetti with garlic bread, spaghetti pie or lasagna. Who doesn’t love spaghetti?!
Breakfast fooods for an evening meal is a favorite at our house!
Good morning, I’ve been with you for many years, and it wanted me to subscribe again. Is that normal?
A family favorite, is Spaghetti made with our canned tomatoes!
Hello Mary Looking at the photos from the Farmhouse Weeknights cookbook has me ready for dinner at 8:00am!
One of my favorite weeknight meal has always been a quick Italian meat sauce with crusty bread. My kids and husband always enjoyed this last minute dinner I love your ideas for decorating and wonderful recipes
One of my favorite meals my family loves is homemade pizza! Would love the book.
One of our favorite weeknight meals is Chicken Tortilla Soup! Thanks for the opportunity to win!!
My favorite weeknight dinner is always a light pasta or a hearty soup with homemade bread and I’m always looking for new recipes. This book looks delightful!
Our favorite meal(s) is my Beef Enchiladas and my meatballs & spaghetti (I’m Italian). I loved all the pictures but especially, the crispy chicken parm and the salads!!!!! Good luck everyone!! 🤞🏻♥️🍀
My family favorite last minute dinner was always a Italian meat sauce on pasta with a simple green salad and crusty bread. Its not even 9:00 am and after looking at the photos from Farmhouse Weeknights I’m ready for dinner!!!
Hello! That cookbook looks like a fun read!! I think one of our favorite meals is homemade pizza especially if we can grill it on the fire pit!
Sounds like a great cookbook Mary! I agree with you, the sheet pan Chicken Parmesan is mouth watering!
Jenna
Good morning, Mary. The photos are beautiful with many delicious looking dishes. The Italian Pasta Salad looks fabulous! Happy Monday and stay cool🥰
In the summer, a favorite meal is anything fresh from the garden, corn, tomatoes, beans, squash, lettuce andmore!
Like so many others, I too love spaghetti or breakfast for dinner. The book looks like it has some wonderful recipes!
We enjoy baked salmon with drizzle of lemon butter sauce before serving, my hubs likes baked potatoes, while I like sweet potatoes. Side would be with roasted cauliflower and broccoli. All in the oven!! Reading this blog just made my mouth water. The pictures put me at the table ready to eat! (Fingers crossed for the win.)
Mary, these all look delicious. Makes me dream of cooking once again, but then I’d need to start hosting dinner parties again. Doubt I have it in me to do it all. Monnie and I made a great team. I could always depend on “my chef” to create delicious meals, beautifully presented. I was in charge of setting the table. I truly miss those days. Good luck to one of your readers. This looks to be a great resource.
Sounds like a fabulous cookbook
My favorite is Chicken Thighs and Mac n Cheese. When I want to watch my weight I love Grilled tuna and Brown Rice with a roasted veggie like asparagus or broccoli.
The cook book is beautiful and recipes look delicious. My favorite dinner meal is shrimp and spaghetti in a light fresh tomato sauce. Hubby loves it too – always a plus.
What a beautiful cookbook! And it really made me hungry!! I love most recipes that require me to get my mother’s cast iron skillet out!
I love the idea of using Whole Foods. All the recipes look delicious. I love a sheet pan meal- quick, simple and only one pan to clean☺️
All the pictures look so great. I’d love to have this book.
Looks like a lovely book with delicious recipes. I appreciate all of the photos. We have so many favorites. I love making chicken fajitas during the week. The crispy chicken parmesan looks pretty tasty as we eat a lot of chicken.
Good morning Mary,
Another beautiful post!
My favorite evening meal is a soup out of the crockpot with a salad on the side.
Thank you for the beauty that you quietly bring to your reader.
I appreciate wholesome recipes that are rooted in the countryside! I will check out her website, thanks!
Good Afternoon, Mary. Look at all these mouth-watering recipes! The photography is fabulous. That Caesar Salad looks delicious.
WOW! What a fabulous cookbook – those pics are scrumptuous looking! YUM!! The one I actually gasped about was the Caprese grilled cheese sandwich. Never thought of doing that – though it is a lot like a fav pizza – why not make it a hand held crunchy sammie? She is an amazing recipe provider. I am so inspired. Thank you, Mary!
Me again. I didn’t tell you what one of my weekend fav dinners is. I’d say lemon butter garlic shrimp angel hair with peas and carrots and tomato (in mine I like mushrooms but hubs won’t eat them) – less than 20 minutes from start to finish. It’s my own recipe so I can’t link it from somewhere else.
my favorite weeknight meal is Tikka Masala meatballs. i really would love to have this cook book. I alos live in Mooresville, NC
Looks like a beautiful book.
I love caprese chicken toss salad and good warm bread. Yummy!!
One of my favorite and most versatile is chicken enchiladas. I make a vegetarian option with black beans, corn and chiles for my daughter and with chicken for the rest of the family. I can go with red sauce or verde or both. Leftover filling can be frozen and used to quickly put together a hot, homemade meal.
I’m fixing for dinner tonight one of my favorite summer meals: chicken and veggie kabobs with home made Thai peanut dipping sauce, and fresh locally grown sweet corn!
One of our favorite dinners: BBQ chicken (grill or oven), corn on the cob, mashed potatoes, and a creamed cucumber salad. So summery and satisfying!
For a quick summer dinner, I love lemon chicken, rice and a romaine salad.~ know the quick lemon chicken recipe by heart since I have made it so many times!
~~ Hi Mary ~~ What an awesome looking cookbook !! weekend dinners always seem to have chicken, or whatever hubby brings home LOL!
Stay cool !!
Paula ~~
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My husband recently discovered the recipe for asparagus and chicken stir fry on line – it has become a weekly favorite for us. The best part is he does the cooking!😊
Hi Mary ~ What an interesting cookbook this looks to be. Right up my alley. My favorite go-to weeknight meal is what I call “American Chop Suey”. I know other people call it different things. It is ground beef broken up and browned with an onion and some garlic in a bit of olive oil, drained if needed then add a jar of Rao’s Marinara Sauce and keep warm. Cook in pasta pot a pound of short pasta of your liking, we like cavatappi, to al dente, drain back in the pot then add the meat and sauce. Serve with Parmesan cheese and bread or a green salad. Leftovers are awesome. Hugs, Dorinda
This looks like such a beautiful and useful book! Mouth watering! One of my husband’s and my favorite meals is a stir fry. I pick a protein and what ever vegetables are lingering in the fridge. Always healthy and I change it up a bit with the seasonings!
Yes, Chicken Parmesan. However, as life is short, let’s make and eat some of those yummy deserts FIRST.
Question, Mary, I love those pannicle hydrangeas but cannot seem to find them in Southern California. Any suggestions?
Hi Adrienne, Panicle hydrangeas are hardy in USDA zones 3 to 8, with some varieties, like ‘Limelight’, tolerating zone 9 in the shade. Maybe your climate is too warm? If not, you can find them online at Proven Winners. 🌸 Thank you for your visit!
Thank you. I am in Zone 8B so they should do OK.
I’ll contact tbem.
The cookbook looks wonderful Mary. I’d have to say we really enjoy homemade soups with homemade bread. I usually like to use lots of veggies and it certainly fills us up. I always look forward to your posts. Thanks, Barb
Well I must be so old to figure out how to respond to the ‘cookbook giveaway’ – ha – hopefully this will enter me into it, hope so?! Anyway, my favorite dinner would be an EASY – very simple recipe (nothing too fancy) to bake in the oven – maybe something with chicken? I asked my husband if he would like the ‘Crispy Chicken Parmesan’ and he was ‘iffy’ but I think I would try that one first – and then look for a dessert to try. I absolutely love looking at your site and all the great decorating ideas, especially holidays – very neat things to try to copy – you are very talented and thank you for everything!
Our favorite easy hot night dinner is a chef’s salad. We use chicken, ham and Swiss cheese. And then whatever lettuces that I have and all the vegetables that are around. Dressing is whatever moves me that day. One that goes on often is an Italian vinaigrette with Parmesan. Know that the cookbook would be a great addition to my cooking repertoire……
One of the simplest recipes that my granddaughter always ask for is Creamy Chicken Breasts. Make it every time she comes over. So simple. The cookbook looks interesting. Always trying to find something new to try.
What a beautiful cookbook, Mary!! I love pictures included in cookbooks. My favorite weeknight dinner is hamburger pie, which is very similar to Shepherd’s pie and so easy. I’ve been making it for years!
What a beautiful cookbook! We enjoy a dinner of grilled brats and an old recipe of warm German Potato Salad followed by peach icecream. Thank you Mary, you always find the most interesting books.
We love Spaghetti Bolognese! Thanks for the chance to win.
Oh my….now I’m really hungry! The cookbook sounds delish! And I’m all about quick and easy! Two recipes come to mind for weeknight dinners. Taco Pizza Burgers and Nacho Skillet Casserole.
My husbands favorite weeknight dinners is meatloaf, potato salad, slaw and biscuits. Would love to have this!!
Spaghetti and meatballs is always my favorite. I really enjoy reading your blog.
I love sheet pan Lemon Chicken. Those photos are great and inspiring. So many yummy things to feast our eyes on.
Oh Mary!!! My goodness my heart is fluttering, just glancing at this beautiful, prolific Cookbook, Farmhouse Weeknights!!! I adore cookbooks and cooking and entertaining at home with family and friends! I would love to win this beautiful work of art, to display in my kitchen! I love to cook, I believe the recipe that I would choose first would be the Crispy Chicken Parmesan, or the Taco Soup looks delicious too! Each of the recipes looks divine!!! Thank you for your generosity and creating this fun drawing! My sweet daddy always taught, Luke 6:38…
Luke 6:38 (WEB)
[38] “If Mary gives, it will be given to her: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, it will be given to Mary. For with the same measure Mary measures it will be measured back to her.”
Thank you! May God Bless You!!!
Have a wonderful weekend!