Weeknight Meals | Basics with Babish

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Some weeknights are meant for simplicity like one pot meals and sheet pan meals. These recipes are easy and customizable to your taste.

Ingredients & Shopping List
+ For the One Pot Chicken Meal:
2 sweet potatoes
2 Granny Smith apples
Fresh sage
4 skin-on, bone-in chicken thighs
Salt and pepper
Bourbon (or white wine)
Chicken stock
Chopped pecans
Lemon
Chives

+ For the Sheet Pan Salmon Dinner:
Baby Yukon Gold potatoes
Olive oil
Salt and pepper
Asparagus
Salmon fillets
Garlic cloves
Lemon
Dijon mustard
Fresh parsley

For the Blue Apron Creamy Pesto Pasta:

Special Equipment & Tools
Stainless steel or cast iron skillet (for one pot meal)
Large sheet pan (for the sheet pan dinner)

Music:
"Sweet Berry Wine", "Best I Can" by Blue Wednesday

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[matthewgoines]

I've recently become a single father and I love this channel because I love to cook and I want to provide my daughter with the passion and love I have towards cooking. Thank you Babbish.

[YellowMohamad]

As a college student my weeknight meal is sleep

[randallrogers]

"Ingredients you can pronounce" well then my Blue Apron better not come with Worshicheshishisheer sauce then

[Colaws]

You sounded dead inside when plugging blue apron lol

[NOTANOTHERCOOKINGSHOW]

Fun fact about spinach. It's nutritional value is maximized when wilted, not when raw or fully cooked.

[assassintwinat]

my biggest problem with cooking meals isn't the cooking itself; I'm a decent enough home cook. it's finding the energy to do it

[fvrs]

This comment section:
90% plastic bags
10% babish love

[Tillereen]

Can we get a full "weeknight meals" series? Something I can make after coming home from work and school right before passing out in bed?

[Feaharn]

And blue apron seems to be a great option for anyone that tries to maximise his amount of plastic waste as well

[matts]

Blue Apron "Just when you thought plastic for your grocery store food was crazy, we wrap a carrot in a plastic box."

[lordwizrak]

Blue apron : selling plastic packaging that comes with some food at exorbitant prices.

[eendenmannetje]

"I should totally make these", I say to myself as I put a frozen pizza in the oven at 1 am

[mlozada]

I'd be interested in seeing how you approach weeknight meals at lower price points. Even ingredients like chopped nuts assume a budget that allows for garnishes, snacks, or other "pantry staples" that are out-of-reach for some. I'd definitely want to try these recipes at some point, but I'd love to see how you'd tackle more low-budget options. Including an estimated cost-per-meal popup could also be cool to see!

[Everfalling]

"faster than it takes to order a pizza" a critique i've seen a lot is that blue apron meals routinely take upwards of 3 hours to make unless you're pretty adept in the kitchen

[patrickcameron]

The salmon dinner has fooled many of my friends into thinking I’m way more sophisticated than I really am. Thanks for that.

[xLuGx]

WOW, ingredients in a box. Imagine if we had a place where you can buy vegetables, sauce or pasta individually without the ton of plastic.

[NickNackNyx]

Babish can you do an episode on beef stew? Its a recipe my folks love for this time of year, but I don't know if I can survive the watery underseasoned hell they call beef stew this year. Save me Babish, youre my only hope

[marissavalero]

But what i want to know is what does he eat on a normal day/when he isn’t filming

[mcknit]

Honestly looked into it: waay more expensive than just grocery shopping - even with home delivery - my own shopping list.

[MichaelBerthelsen]

You're right, we know EXACTLY what that is in the bottom of the pan, and we're very fond of it.😉