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Making homemade meals on a weeknight does not have to be a daunting task. You can make easy, delicious meals from fresh ingredients and whole foods any day of the week. The Homemade on a Weeknight Cookbook is just what you need to plan your meals! Come back often for new recipes that are family-friendly and full of flavor!

Homemade on a Weeknight: A Family Cookbook by Estelle Forrest

Homemade on a Weeknight is the debut Cookbook from Estelle Forrest. The cookbook is designed to help even the busiest of families to make healthy, homemade (often from scratch) meals any day of the week. The recipes are organized in such a way that a weekly meal plan can be created by selecting one recipe from each of the five sections of the book each week. And you won’t even have to repeat a recipe for 5 whole months!

Estelle Forrest self-published this cookbook after a lot of playing around in the kitchen. You can purchase your own copy here:

AVAILABLE IN PRINT OR KINDLE eBOOK VERSIONS

Purchase here on Amazon

Now Available for Order! The follow-up cookbook – Burgers on a Weeknight!

Burgers on a Weeknight

Looking for more ways to have a great Burger Night with your family? Try this mouthwatering collection of over 60 burger recipes using different types of meats, cheese, and homemade toppings to shake things up. Burgers on a Weeknight is the second cookbook collection offered by Estelle Forrest (author of Homemade on a Weeknight: A Family Cookbook). With recipes for homemade BBQ Sauce, Hummus, Chili, Beer Cheese, and Herbed Yogurt (just to name a few!) you are going to flip for the variety of burger creations in this cookbook. Burgers don’t have to be for summertime anymore!

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Pizza Grilled Cheese

Who doesn’t love a grilled cheese sandwich? I mean at any age, they are just so good. More and more people are getting extra creative with their grilled cheese creations and they are popping up on restaurant menus everywhere. So I decided to get on this trend and make a Pizza Grilled Cheese! It cameContinue reading “Pizza Grilled Cheese”

by Estelle Forrest

Buffalo Chicken Wraps

Sometimes you need an easy meal that will work for dinner or lunch – at home, at a picnic, camping. These Buffalo Chicken Wraps are perfect for that. While I included directions to cook the chicken in this recipe, you can totally replace it with shredded rotisserie chicken. We are lucky enough to have aContinue reading “Buffalo Chicken Wraps”

by Estelle Forrest

Pam’s Minestrone Soup

Some times you need a super hearty soup for dinner. Especially when your kitchen is in chaos of a remodel and you are relegated to cooking dinner for a family of six in a slow cooker. So you start to look at what you have on hand and what you can cream. The result isContinue reading “Pam’s Minestrone Soup”

by Estelle Forrest

What is Homemade on a Weeknight?

For a lot of families, weeknights are so full of activities—sports, homework, housework, concerts, recitals, appointments, clubs,  the list goes on. And we often feel like we must go to a drive-thru, eat some ready-made meal or a quick prep meal from a box. But it really is not true. Most of the reason we feel like we cannot cook homemade or “real” food on a weeknight is that we do not have the right set of tools in our arsenal.

We need good, easy to follow recipes that have regular everyday ingredients. We need a few basic cooking techniques. And we need a plan. That is really all you need to start making homemade dinners every day of the week. Preparing a home cooked meal almost every day of the week is a sure way to get a true sense of accomplishment each day – you get to see your success on a plate!

So, let’s get cookin’!

Who is Estelle Forrest?

I am a lot of things – wife, mother, daughter, sister, niece, friend, business owner, volunteer, and a home chef. I have lived in the Pacific Northwest for most of my adult life and plan to stay forever – while traveling a lot. I am currently running a General Contracting business with my husband out of our home. Between us we have 6 kids in our blended family, 4 of which live with us full-time. We are a highly active family during the week – sports, bands, dance classes – as well as on the weekend – camping, hiking, car shows, and concerts.

We like to go go go, but when it comes to dinnertime, we mostly like to dine-in! I love to create things with my hands and have probably tried almost every craft out there at least once or twice. Cooking is a huge part of my life. No matter what anyone says – you can taste the difference in the food if it was made with love. Some of the simplest meals can be elevated so much when they are cooked with care.

Pouring love into the meals I create brings a feeling of fulfillment and satisfaction, not only to me, but to the people I care about.

Photo Credit: Chea Studio Photography

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