{"id":1270,"date":"2025-04-01T01:05:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T17:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/2025\/04\/01\/5-weeknight-dinners-ive-made-a-hundred-times\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T01:05:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T17:05:18","slug":"5-weeknight-dinners-ive-made-a-hundred-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/2025\/04\/01\/5-weeknight-dinners-ive-made-a-hundred-times\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Weeknight Dinners I’ve Made a Hundred Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Every Monday, our editors bring you\u00a0Simply (Weeknight) Recipes, five quick and easy dinner recipes to make this week.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

Feeding a finicky or picky child can stress out even the most laid-back parent. I describe it as a Dementor’s kiss\u2014it sucks the life out of you. So, when my oldest son Ethan said this to me recently, it erased years of dinner-time trauma in one fell swoop:\n<\/p>\n

“Remember how I made dinner for you guys during the pandemic with the online cooking classes? I’d feel really bad if you made not-nice comments about the food because I’m still a bad cook. So, I’m going to thank you even if I don’t like dinner and stop making faces… especially when you make mushrooms.”\n<\/p>\n

I admire my tween for his self-awareness, and since I felt his love, I didn’t serve him as many mushrooms for dinner that night.\n<\/p>\n

Here are five easy weeknight dinners I’ve made so many times that I know the recipes by memory, including helpful tips.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

#Weeknight #Dinners #Ive #Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every Monday, our editors bring you\u00a0Simply (Weeknight) Recipes, five quick and easy dinner recipes to make this week. Feeding a finicky or picky child can stress out even the most laid-back parent. I describe it as a Dementor’s kiss\u2014it sucks the life out of you. So, when my oldest son Ethan said this to me […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,453,705,379],"class_list":["post-1270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dinner","tag-dinners","tag-ive","tag-times","tag-weeknight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}