Buy My New Book "Come & Eat" (includes over 20 recipes!)

Stories + Recipes for the Everyday Table

Healthy
Weeknight Meals

Stories from
Our Table

Popular
Recipes

Order my
Book Today!

Subscribe today and never miss a recipe!

Tag Archives: weeknight dinner

hello love...

Welcome! I'm Bri! Accidental home cook. Lover of gathering people around a table over a meal. Author of Come & Eat (September 2017). What I really want is to pull out a chair for you at my table. But until then, I hope you stay awhile and enjoy my stories + recipes!

Read Our Story Here ...

Let’s Connect

Come & Eat by Bri McKoy
Available Now!

brimckoy

This is the story of how I came to belong to my ne

This is the story of how I came to belong to my neighborhood. It starts with a garlic bulb painted onto my arm, naturally.

This past weekend our neighborhood hosted an event for everyone to get to know the local shops in the area😌

The first place we stopped had custom cocktails and an artist drawing little cartoons. I asked for a garlic bulb. Near the end she opened a few more paints and said,

“I feel like your garlic bulb has rosy cheeks. And is shocked.” 😆🧄

We stopped into the next shop, a plant shop! IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD! For the event the shop had a “Build your own Terrarium” station. Jeremy and I walked by thinking, we can’t carry a plant for the next several stops. And then we doubled back like, wait, yes we can. Jeremy expertly pulled this terrarium together. And he carried it for the rest of the day like it was his emotional support plant. 🥹

We moved from shop to shop. We were out for four hours. We could not stop popping in and telling the shop owners how much we loved the area. We could not stop telling people WE LIVE HERE!

At our last stop, a cute dog was gathering a crowd of people. Of course I also had to pet the dog. After some time talking with other dog-obsessed people I went back into the wine shop. Jeremy asked if I got the numbers of the people I was talking to and I said, no. And he gently pushed me out the door and said, “Go get their number.”

With complete tact I yelled after them, “Hello, I just met you. Can I be your friend?” 🥹 They turned and gave me their numbers and then they came back to the wine shop to meet Jeremy and we all lingered for another while.

We finally got home with a new “tattoo”, a new plant, and new names and numbers. I kept beaming at Jeremy with a feeling I could not place and this morning I realized what it is. It’s belonging. I belong here. And sometimes I’m cautious with my own belonging because I know it is only for a time (thanks to military moves). But belonging can be for three years. It can be for two months. It can be for 5 minutes while a woman paints on your arm and says, “Your garlic bulb would have rosy cheeks.”

Breakfast Burritos with Trader Joe’s Hashbrowns

Breakfast Burritos with Trader Joe’s Hashbrowns
I’ve been eating these for second lunch and I can’t quit them 🥔🌯

I cook my frozen hash brown in the toaster oven! 400 degrees for 20 minutes (I like them extra crispy)!

Onto a warmed tortilla add eggs, avocado, SALT, hot sauce. ENJOY!

Best Bacon Hack 🥓 Save this for later👇 Met

Best Bacon Hack 🥓
Save this for later👇

Method:
When cooking bacon*, add one extra piece to the sheet. When bacon is done cooking, immediately enjoy extra strip. It’s all yours, no sharing.

*This has been a self care tip brought to you by bacon.

LA Photoshoot 📸 Awhile ago @laura.tremaine told

LA Photoshoot 📸
Awhile ago @laura.tremaine told me I could use her kitchen if I ever wanted to film in it. Naturally I took her up on this and asked if I could have a photoshoot in her kitchen and she said, “It’s all yours!” Because this is who Laura is.

My longtime friend and amazing photographer @carissa_cady_photo and I showed up to her house for the photoshoot and she had the kitchen cleared! She put on an upbeat playlist! We popped bubbles and cheered🍾 She was so excited about my shoot it was making me even more excited 📸

Her good energy brought out my good energy 🪄

Do not underestimate what it means to get over the top excited about the things that bring your friends joy. Tell them with your words. Open your home to them, your laughter, your own good energy.

I hope you have a Laura in your life! I hope you are a Laura to someone in your life 💫

She’s new and she will follow you into your drea

How Different Salts Enter a Party 😎 🧂 Diamo

How Different Salts Enter a Party 😎

🧂 Diamond Crystal Kosher Salt: she is chill, happy to be here and everyone’s bestie. Her secret weapon: Chefs obsess over her.

🧂Table Salt: she thinks she’s the star of the show and if not properly utilized she will get out of control. Her secret weapon: she knows you need her if your meal was under seasoned.

🧂 Pink Himalayan Sea Salt: she’s so cute and dresses the part. Honestly, she’s just happy to be here. Her secret weapon: she brings color to the party and shines in food photography 🎉

Fleur De Sel: she’s dripping in diamonds and knows she’s worth every penny. Her secret weapon: she’s the finisher and the star.

Morton Kosher Salt: also a favorite of the party, except she’s a little more punchy than Diamond Crystal. Her secret weapon: SHE IS SALTY.

3:00pm Sneaky Snack (as coined by @jamiebgolden) 😋

I like my snacks to nearly present in the form of a whole meal, a very savory Almost Meal ™️

3:00pm-6:00pm is usually a weird time for me. I am finishing work, maybe doing a last minute errand, it’s also when I am trying to shut down email so I can feel a little at peace until the next morning…but what has been happening is I look up and it is 5:30 or 6 and I am V HUNGRY and also the one making dinner. Making dinner while I’m super hungry is close to one of my least favorite things to do🥹

So I have started eating a very substantial Almost Meal at 3:00pm. It’s usually leftovers from the night before.

What happened here is I ended up with a small, leftover burger with no bun. So I chopped up the burger and put it over lettuce and here we are. Chips are a must. All burger toppings - a must. Ketchup, mustard, cheese, mayo, pickles.

Then I go to the kitchen and cook dinner, not quite full but also not extremely hungry. Not being hungry is my favorite thing. Do you have a go-to Almost Meal?!

The party favorite margarita! This classic margar

The party favorite margarita!
This classic margarita gets a glow up with a Grand Marnier float!

Ingredients:
2 ounces tequila
1 ounce honey simple syrup Juice from half a lime
1 ounce Grand Marnier
salt

🧂Salt rim of glass (optional) by taking a lime wedge and moving it across the top of the glass. Turn glass upside down into a plate of salt. Move around to salt glass. Add large ice sphere to the glass.

🍯 In a shaker filled with ice, add tequila, lime juice, and honey simple syrup. Shake.

🧊 Pour mixture through strainer into salt- rimmed cup with ice sphere.

🪄Pour Grand Marnier over top of ice sphere to finish the margarita with a fun float!

The Everyday Sauce🪄 This sauce is so simple

The Everyday Sauce🪄

This sauce is so simple with ingredients you probably have on hand! It is perfect on wings, chicken sliders, salads, nachos …really everything!

Do not be worried about the Frank’s Red Hot, this sauce is not spicy thanks to the honey and the butter, but if you like it a little sweeter, just add more honey!

The Everyday Sauce
🧈8 tablespoons butter
🫙1/2 cup Frank’s Original Hot Sauce
🍯1/2 cup honey
🧄2 garlic cloves, minced

Combine all of the sauce ingredients in a small saucepan over medium heat. Once butter is melted, whisk to combine and remove from heat.

*If you’d like it a little thicker, make a little slurry with 2 teaspoons arrowroot or cornstarch with 2 teaspoons water. Mix to combine. While the sauce is still on the heat whisk in the slurry. Be sure to stir constantly until sauce is thickened!

It was in that moment, while she was sitting at he

It was in that moment, while she was sitting at her computer typing that she knew someone was watching her. Not one to get too dramatic (reader, she does get dramatic) she slowly turned and in a loud voice said, “I know you’re back there!”

In response, her small dog peeped past the light fixture, just barely.

And that is when I realized I I need to get out of the house for a bit 😅 Just a quick reminder, if you haven’t gotten out of the house today or taken a Stupid Walk™️ (forever grateful to @erinhmoon for this) maybe right now is the time!

Frosé All Day This is the official drink of sprin

Frosé All Day
This is the official drink of spring! I have had really bad frosés so I typically stay away from them (overly sweet, watered down, bland). Then I just created my own😌 The secret is in freezing the rosé 🤫 ENJOY!

🌹1 bottle (750 ml) Rosé
🌹2 ounces Grand Mariner
🌹3 Tbsp white or cane sugar
🍓4-5 strawberries (fresh or frozen)
🧊1/2 cup ice

Pour the whole bottle of rosé into a shallow baking dish with a lid. Secure lid and place in freezer for at least 8 hours or overnight.
In a blender add the frozen rosé, Grand Marnier, sugar, strawberries and ice.
Blend until there is a slushy consistency (about 20 seconds).
Serve in a coup with a fresh strawberry as a garnish.

Cheers!!!!

Favorite way to peel an egg! 🥚 I have tried ma

Favorite way to peel an egg! 🥚
I have tried many different ways to peel an egg but this way has worked best every single time! Also, it’s insanely satisfying. I literally think I create a whole world every time I can get the shell off in one go 😅

When I was young, the same favorite color or the s

When I was young, the same favorite color or the same homeroom in high school could put you squarely in best friend status. We’re both wearing pink on Fridays? Time for a bff bracelet. We both wish Timmy would stop with the weird jokes? You’re invited to my sleepover immediately.

But when I got older, friendship was so much more effort, more elusive, less obvious. It turns out a hard friendship situation can’t be solved by throwing that bff bracelet in the trash. Sorry about that by the way, Christy.

But then there was @laura.tremaine.

No one has taught me more about friendship than Laura. Sometimes it was through something she’d say in passing, “Like every selfie.” (She first read this in a poem by @davidgate_ )

She’d casually mention that her husband isn’t her best friend.

I’d vox her to vent about someone mean and I’d want her to be like SHE IS TRASH. But she’d say, that’s your ego, babe. And I knew then that friends tell the truth.

I told her I liked the color of her lipstick and she went through Nordstrom and then Sephora with me to find my perfect shade.

There was also the time she famously announced that the members of her mastermind group (me included) were not her friends🥹

I came to understand that Laura wasn’t just making up rules about friendship along the way. These were philosophies. She had a compass that helped her navigate new and old friendships. She had a life council. In some seasons, 3 people sat on the council. In other seasons, 8.

And so when she set out to write ⭐️The Life Council: 10 Friends Every Woman Needs⭐️ I knew I needed this book.

This is the book that gave me language for adult friendship 👯‍♀️

This book is out in the world today and you can also learn a new language, the one on adult friendship. You are going to love this book. I cannot wait for you to read it. Am I in your life council? J/K (Also, her last book sold out within the first week and people had to wait for it to REPRINT, so I would super duper jump on this now!) ALSO AGAIN, peep that second photo of @laura.tremaine. She is as fun and magical as she looks🪄

A gentle reminder that pasta is an all season food

Freezer Meal Tip! 🪄 When you put a meal in the

Freezer Meal Tip! 🪄
When you put a meal in the freezer add the “Eat On” date. For us it’s usually 1-2 months out. Then I add that to my meal planning calendar so when I’m meal planning 4 weeks later I’ll see I’ve already planned for meatball subs which are in the freezer! I put a reminder to pull them out of the freezer the day before and BAM. My frozen meals are working for me!

Can someone please remind me of the plant app that

Can someone please remind me of the plant app that will help me not kill these plants? This is literally a matter of life or death 🥹🪴 NO PRESSURE.

Also, this is what happened, we went to a nursery on Saturday to pick out one new plant and we bought six, naturally. DO NOT WORRY. These plants asked us to take them home with us so we did. We had no choice. This is just being a responsible adult.

(Furthermore, peep little bear in the background.)

While we were at the nursery there was an author event and we met @delaplants! We bought her book Houseplants for Beginners. She was so lovely. Her book is stunning. We had her sign the copy we bought with the following, “Bri & Jer you got this!” And honestly I think we do ☺️ Also crowd sourcing plant names. Ok thank you 🪴

Favorite Way to Cut a Bell Pepper🫑 Get maximum

Favorite Way to Cut a Bell Pepper🫑
Get maximum pepper without the seeds, stem or white pithy parts!

1. Cut along the top, but not all the way thru
2. Twist and pull the cap!
3. Cut in between the white parts
4. Slice or dice how you see fit!

Magic! 🪄

Best way to thaw meat day of! 🧊🥩🍗🥓 Thr

Best way to thaw meat day of! 🧊🥩🍗🥓
Throw your wrapped meat (do not unwrap it!) into a big bow of water. Make sure it is submerged. Place back in fridge for 4-5 hours and it will be thawed!

Another popular technique is to place it in the fridge and do carry out 🥹🥹

For reasons I cannot quite explain, I decided a fe

For reasons I cannot quite explain, I decided a few weeks ago that I was going to master homemade fried fish 🥲 I did the research, I put in the hours, I watched way too many videos of people with delightful accents making fried fish and smashed peas. My favorite part was when the fish was wrapped in newspaper.

Homemade tartar sauce is a must. I am here to tell you I nearly drank this sauce. And the next day I put leftovers on a sandwich and had myself a delightful Filet-O-Fish experience. Extra sauce.

Always extra sauce!

(I’m sharing this recipe in my next live cooking class tonight and there are still a few seats left!) 🐟🍟

The rack that keeps on giving 🥹🙃 This over

The rack that keeps on giving 🥹🙃

This over the sink, roll up rack is becoming my new obsession. I use it for so much more than drying dishes👇

🍽️More space to dry dishes
🫙I use it when I’m measuring messy ingredients so any mess falls into the sink
🔥Acts as a trivet for hot dishes that come out of the oven
🚰Place large pots on it to fill them up
🧼Dishwasher safe

How else do you use this?!

Load More... Follow on Instagram

This is the story of how I came to belong to my ne

This is the story of how I came to belong to my neighborhood. It starts with a garlic bulb painted onto my arm, naturally.

This past weekend our neighborhood hosted an event for everyone to get to know the local shops in the area😌

The first place we stopped had custom cocktails and an artist drawing little cartoons. I asked for a garlic bulb. Near the end she opened a few more paints and said,

“I feel like your garlic bulb has rosy cheeks. And is shocked.” 😆🧄

We stopped into the next shop, a plant shop! IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD! For the event the shop had a “Build your own Terrarium” station. Jeremy and I walked by thinking, we can’t carry a plant for the next several stops. And then we doubled back like, wait, yes we can. Jeremy expertly pulled this terrarium together. And he carried it for the rest of the day like it was his emotional support plant. 🥹

We moved from shop to shop. We were out for four hours. We could not stop popping in and telling the shop owners how much we loved the area. We could not stop telling people WE LIVE HERE!

At our last stop, a cute dog was gathering a crowd of people. Of course I also had to pet the dog. After some time talking with other dog-obsessed people I went back into the wine shop. Jeremy asked if I got the numbers of the people I was talking to and I said, no. And he gently pushed me out the door and said, “Go get their number.”

With complete tact I yelled after them, “Hello, I just met you. Can I be your friend?” 🥹 They turned and gave me their numbers and then they came back to the wine shop to meet Jeremy and we all lingered for another while.

We finally got home with a new “tattoo”, a new plant, and new names and numbers. I kept beaming at Jeremy with a feeling I could not place and this morning I realized what it is. It’s belonging. I belong here. And sometimes I’m cautious with my own belonging because I know it is only for a time (thanks to military moves). But belonging can be for three years. It can be for two months. It can be for 5 minutes while a woman paints on your arm and says, “Your garlic bulb would have rosy cheeks.”

Breakfast Burritos with Trader Joe’s Hashbrowns

Breakfast Burritos with Trader Joe’s Hashbrowns
I’ve been eating these for second lunch and I can’t quit them 🥔🌯

I cook my frozen hash brown in the toaster oven! 400 degrees for 20 minutes (I like them extra crispy)!

Onto a warmed tortilla add eggs, avocado, SALT, hot sauce. ENJOY!

Best Bacon Hack 🥓 Save this for later👇 Met

Best Bacon Hack 🥓
Save this for later👇

Method:
When cooking bacon*, add one extra piece to the sheet. When bacon is done cooking, immediately enjoy extra strip. It’s all yours, no sharing.

*This has been a self care tip brought to you by bacon.

LA Photoshoot 📸 Awhile ago @laura.tremaine told

LA Photoshoot 📸
Awhile ago @laura.tremaine told me I could use her kitchen if I ever wanted to film in it. Naturally I took her up on this and asked if I could have a photoshoot in her kitchen and she said, “It’s all yours!” Because this is who Laura is.

My longtime friend and amazing photographer @carissa_cady_photo and I showed up to her house for the photoshoot and she had the kitchen cleared! She put on an upbeat playlist! We popped bubbles and cheered🍾 She was so excited about my shoot it was making me even more excited 📸

Her good energy brought out my good energy 🪄

Do not underestimate what it means to get over the top excited about the things that bring your friends joy. Tell them with your words. Open your home to them, your laughter, your own good energy.

I hope you have a Laura in your life! I hope you are a Laura to someone in your life 💫

She’s new and she will follow you into your drea

How Different Salts Enter a Party 😎 🧂 Diamo

How Different Salts Enter a Party 😎

🧂 Diamond Crystal Kosher Salt: she is chill, happy to be here and everyone’s bestie. Her secret weapon: Chefs obsess over her.

🧂Table Salt: she thinks she’s the star of the show and if not properly utilized she will get out of control. Her secret weapon: she knows you need her if your meal was under seasoned.

🧂 Pink Himalayan Sea Salt: she’s so cute and dresses the part. Honestly, she’s just happy to be here. Her secret weapon: she brings color to the party and shines in food photography 🎉

Fleur De Sel: she’s dripping in diamonds and knows she’s worth every penny. Her secret weapon: she’s the finisher and the star.

Morton Kosher Salt: also a favorite of the party, except she’s a little more punchy than Diamond Crystal. Her secret weapon: SHE IS SALTY.

Join our table!

Sign-up to my newsletter to receive exclusive recipes and stories that never appear on the blog!

© 2020 Our Savory Life | Bri McKoy

Our Savory Life uses affiliate links. Purchasing an item through links on this blog or through Our Savory Life’s social media (Facebook, Instagram, YouTube…) may result in a commission. Any posts that are sponsored will be noted in post.

Bri McKoy, owner of Our Savory Life, is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.