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Dec 29 2025

Weekly Menu – 7 Amazing Dinners Plus Dessert

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Weekly Menu 12-29-25
Weekly Menu 12-29-25

These Weekly Menu recipes allow you to get out of that same ol’ recipe rut and try some delicious and easy dishes!

Weekly Menu 12-29-25

Happy Monday, TKW Family! I hope you had a fantastic week last week! How were your holidays? Our Christmas was lovely. I’m a huge fan of a quiet holiday where it’s just us. It would be different if our family lived close, but they are thousands of miles away.

So instead, we keep it quiet and intimate. We open our presents, have our favorite Christmas breakfast (French Toast Casserole), stay in our pjs all day, watch football, and then have dinner. And yes, we snack on cookies…all day!

For NYE, we’ll stay home and watch the balls drop (since we live in Arizona, we don’t really have our own celebration, so we either watch the NY one or the CA one). We’ll have our annual pork and sauerkraut and NYE pretzel.

What Chef Lori is Up To This Week

  • TIME OFF: I appreciate you all for encouraging me to take the last 2 weeks of December off. I was hesitant to do so, but my body needed it. Once we get through New Year’s Day, new recipes and awesome new videos (that you can actually relate to) are coming!
  • HOLIDAY PARTY: This year, we’re hosting an “after” holiday party. Ours will be after New Year’s Day with some close friends to get together, eat some great food, and appreciate our friendships.
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Highlighted Recipes of the Week!

These recipes are tried and true, but ones that you may have forgotten about.  

Highlighted Recipes 12-29-2025
  • Cranberry Jalapeno Smoked Cream Cheese: Bringing together sweet, tart cranberries, a gentle kick of heat, pineapple habanero seasoning, and the tang of smoked cream cheese.
  • Crab Meat Stuffed Shrimp: Transform your next meal with these smoky, tender shrimp stuffed with a rich jumbo lump crab filling; all topped with a decadent garlic shallot butter sauce that’ll leave everyone craving more!
  • Bacon Wrapped Cheesy Big Daddy Mac Meatballs: Tender, juicy meatballs oozing with cheesy goodness wrapped in seasoned bacon.
  • How to make Crostini: Making crostini from scratch is super easy and is so inexpensive. Stop buying premade stuff and start making it homemade!
  • Charcuterie Grazing Board: Create a showstopping grazing board that’s as beautiful as it is delicious, packed with meats, cheeses, fruits, veggies, & irresistible nibbles everyone will love.
  • Cookie Butter Cheesecake Dip: Creamy Biscoff Cookie Butter blended into the most decadent cheesecake dip with bits of chocolate and toffee.

Weekly Dinner Menu – What to cook this week

With that, guys, I’m getting this off to you all. Stay tuned for your newsletter! Have a fantabulously amazing day!

Weekly Menu 12-29-25

Below, I’ve put together some easy, delicious meal-prep recipes to help with dinner or lunch for the week. Plus dessert as well, you always have to have dessert! Is your favorite recipe listed below?

♥ Monday: Chorizo Stuffed Breakfast Mushroom Caps
♥ Tuesday: BBQ Brisket Smoked Individual Meatloaves
♥ Wednesday: New Year’s Eve Pork & Sauerkraut
♥ Thursday: Sour Cream Chicken Enchiladas
♥ Friday: Cold Veggie Pizza
♥ Saturday: Korean Air Fryer Crispy Shrimp Burgers
♥ Sunday: Pittsburgh City Chicken
♥ Dessert of the week: New Year Pretzel

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2 responses

  1. Tim Johnson
    December 29, 2025

    Soooo it can’t be the last menu of the year already!!! Everything looks so delicious. Although we can’t realistically try every dish it is so awesome to have so many delicious options. It’s just Nanny and I. We do feed a small ARMY every Sunday though. So that keeps us busy. We get the entire family together at Nanny & GPops – 12 of us. We are so blessed to catch up on the daily lives of each and every one from our tiniest twins to the oldest adults.
    Just want to say again that we enjoy Our TKW FAMILY 🩵
    We want wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a healthy Happy New Year 🩵
    Lots of love and prayers;
    Vianna & Tim
    Aka Nanny & GPop 🩵

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    1. Lori
      December 29, 2025

      Tim you and Vianna are such incredible people and I’m so blessed to have you in the TKW Family! I LOVE you get the 12 of you together every Sunday! How blessed you are! You all have a very special place in my heart. Wish you and your amazing family the most amazing holiday and a truly blessed New Year full of love, laughter, good health and a bajillion more amazing memories!

      Much Love and Best Kitchen Wishes!

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