weeknight dinner
Midweek home cooking
A weeknight dinner is an evening meal prepared on Monday through Thursday, distinguished from weekend cooking by time constraints and lower ambition.
The term implies something quick, practical, and unfussy—a meal you can get on the table after work without much planning: I need some new weeknight dinner ideas.
Recipe websites and cookbooks use the phrase to signal dishes requiring thirty minutes or less.
- casseroleSlow-cooked oven dish
- leftoversUneaten food kept afterward
- quickMoving with speed
- easyRequiring minimal effort
- pastaShaped wheat dough
stir-fry · busy · after work · tired · microwave · takeout · picky eaters · rotisserie · side dish · simple · rushed · family · family time · kitchen table · table · homework · television · reheated
- recipescasserole, lasagna, soup, stew, curry
- family dinnersupper, Sunday supper, holiday meals, kitchen table, table setting
- dinner timessuppertime, evening meal
- eatingchewing, biting, swallowing, nibbling, munching
- routinesmorning routine, habits, routines, morning routines, procedures
weeknight dinnerholiday dinner
Festive meal with relatives
Thanksgiving dinner · Christmas dinner · anniversary dinner · birthday dinner · banquet
week, night, dinner, weeks, weekly, nights, nightly, nighttime, overnight