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Easy Memorial Day Meals for the Long Weekend

This week’s menu mixes easy weeknight dinners with cookout-ready picks for Memorial Day weekend. Filipino Chicken BBQ Skewers and Chicken Bites in Sweet Garlic Sauce lean into the holiday grill-and-snack mood, while Rainbow Honey-Lemon Fruit Salad brings a fresh spring touch with pineapple and kiwi. For something a little more special, Steak Frites with Béarnaise makes the most of seasonal tarragon.

Weeknight dinners

Overhead view of a white slow cooker filled with four boneless pork chops simmering in a creamy mushroom gravy, with sliced mushrooms and a light sprinkle of herbs visible on top.
pork chop

4-Ingredient Dump-and-Go Crockpot Pork Chops

5 h 5 min

Close-up of a baked cottage cheese pizza bowl in a square glass dish, topped with melted mozzarella and several pepperoni slices, with a second dish blurred in the background on a marble surface beside a blue striped towel.
pizza bowl

High-Protein Cottage Cheese Pizza Bowl

35 min

Plate of Filipino-style chicken barbecue skewers with glossy, caramelized charred edges, served with a lime wedge and a small bowl of reddish dipping sauce on a light wooden surface.
chicken skewers

Filipino Chicken BBQ Skewers

35 min

Four baked salmon fillets in a white casserole dish, covered in a creamy pale coconut sauce with browned tops and a sprinkle of chopped herbs.
baked seafood

Creamy Coconut Baked Salmon

30 min

Top-down view of four golden-brown, breaded chicken schnitzel cutlets overlapping on a white plate on a light marble surface, with crisp, browned edges.
schnitzel

Crispy Chicken Schnitzel

40 min

Weekend / family meal

Sliced medium-rare ribeye steak on a wooden board, topped with creamy béarnaise sauce and chopped herbs, served with a pile of golden fries and a small ramekin of extra béarnaise.
steak

Steak Frites With Homemade Béarnaise Sauce

1 h 5 min

Breakfast or brunch

Close-up of a white bowl filled with rainbow fruit salad—strawberries, pineapple chunks, blueberries, kiwi slices, and banana rounds—glossy with honey-lemon glaze on a light countertop.
fruit salad

Rainbow Honey-Lemon Fruit Salad

15 min

Lunch

Top-down view of a divided lunch box: left compartment filled with bowtie pasta tossed in butter with diced ham and black pepper, with a few green herb pieces; right compartment filled with whole cherry tomatoes.
pasta

Bowtie Pasta With Ham (Kid-Friendly Lunch Box Idea)

22 min

Snack

Overhead view of chicken breast bites coated in a glossy sweet garlic sauce, sprinkled with chopped green herbs, served in a blue bowl with a small pool of sauce around the pieces.
chicken

Chicken Bites in Sweet Garlic Sauce

30 min