New & Improved Monthly Meal Planning Inspiration

A new format for the Cook’s Calendar, arriving on the first of every month

Thanks for your feedback! We’re making the Cook’s Calendar easier to navigate, and shorter, too.

In this monthly Cook’s Calendar, you’ll receive 3 new recipes, plus 3 One Potato FAVE recipes from the archive. These are the recipes for you to mix-and-match every week, to make your menu for the whole month. Bookmark this email to click the Instacart link for a pre-filled grocery list for each recipe, whenever you want to order those ingredients. You can fill your cart with ingredients from more than one recipe at a time, just be sure to select the same store from which to place your order.

We know that searching for and choosing what to cook each week is a ton of work. By having this core list of recipes for the month, you’ll have your shopping list already written (and a better grasp on what you already have stocked at home), you’ll become familiar with prepping and cooking each recipe (making dinnertime the day of even easier), and you’ll know what components you can double (or triple, or quadruple!) and freeze for use the next week.

Each month, the core recipes list will be a mix of favorites from the One Potato archive, and new recipes for you to try and enjoy.

This overview email includes links to this month’s new Thursday morning recipes; don’t worry, the new recipes will arrive in your inbox every Thursday morning for day-of or weekend cooking, but they’re linked here so you can plan ahead or start using them in your meal planning rotation at the start of the month.

BONUS: by making the same recipe a couple of times, your kid can become an expert at doing their part to help out, and gain confidence with that recipe, ingredient, or kitchen skill.

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Paid Subscribers access the full archive of recipes + Sauce library, and all One Potato Specials articles + interviews published on Sundays. Free Subscribers have access to one full NEW recipe / month. One Potato is reader-supported; a subscription costs $45 for the whole year, or $5/month. You can upgrade here.

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How to plan and use the new Cook’s Calendar and recipe list?

1. At the beginning of the month, take a look at your weekly schedule. Each week, how many times will you be cooking a family meal at home?

   1. If it’s easier to look at on a weekly basis, go for it!

2. For each week, choose the recipes from this list of 6 that you will make. 

   1. For example, Thanksgiving is the last week of November - so you likely won’t be planning a full week of home-cooked meals. Some weeks you may have 5 days a week when you’re cooking at home, and some you may be super busy with after-school, work, and other activities, and be cooking only 2.

   2. Take note of any bulk cooking tips & tricks so you know which recipes will come together super quickly the second or third time you make them.

3. Bookmark this email/Substack post so you have the recipes and Instacart Links at your fingertips. At the start of each week, just click that button to fill your grocery cart with the ingredients for each recipe (and remove the ingredients from your cart that you already have at home or have already batch cooked in advance, helping us all shop more efficiently & mindfully).

   Pro Tip: If you are shopping on Instacart cart and click to a different tab or Web page, your items will be saved in your cart, so you don’t have to worry about them disappearing!

November Recipes

New Recipes:

Stuffed Butternut Squash with Chia Seed Pesto, Roasted Garlic Broccoli, and Baked Tofu

Chicken Tikka Masala // Vegetarian Tikka Masala with Brown Rice, Naan, a selection of Chutneys, and a side of Haricot Vert 🔒

Oven Roasted Sea Bass with Sautéed Kale and Couscous 🔒

From the Archive

Yogurt-Marinated Persian Chicken Kabobs with Quinoa and Tomato-Cucumber Salad🔒

Spinach & Ricotta Gnocchi with Chia Seed Pesto 🔒

Potstickers with Side Salad or Sautéed Kale and Yuzu Soy Dipping Sauce

At the end of the month, we’ll be sending you a special One Potato recipe for Turkey Pot Pies // Shepherd’s Pie to make using your Thanksgiving leftovers!

—> Behind the Paywall: Complete shopping list organized by recipe for you to print or copy/paste to shop in-store; tips for batch-cooking ingredients for use in multiple meals week-to-week and in more than one of these recipes; how to shop for and store ingredients to use in multiple recipes; ideas for mixing and matching sides and sauces from these core recipes.