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Last weekend I made a turkey breast and gravy, potatoes, and fresh green bean casserole. It was our Sunday evening meal and delicious.

I usually do something "big" on Sunday's! A couple recent ones were homemade ravioli & a delicious pot roast.

I love weekend fun meals! Recently we haven't done too much because we've been so busy, but we do like to cook on Sundays. We like making traditional foods (my husband is Ecuadorian) on Sundays.....empanadas, humitas (sweet corn dumplings), tamales, ceviche....yum!

@regberadaisy: Mmmm corned beef and cabbage has been my crazy pregnancy craving for months now!

I like to treat DH to a fun meal or two on the weekends and spend extra time on it since he cooks so much for me during the week due to my work hours. Jalapeno popper stuffed chicken was a good one we had a couple of weeks ago. Shrimp and wild rice casserole is my guilty pleasure. I LOVE getting up on Saturday mornings and flipping through cookbooks while I sip on my coffee. I was thinking of making a white wine penne pasta this weekend, but you all have me stuck on tamales now

@blackbird: I love making tamales – this reminds me I need to make some soon!

We make gnocchi from scratch every few months which is fun. Like tamales, it’s totally a you’ll-know-when-the-dough-feels-right type experiment.

We also like slow cook meals that make the house smell good; making carnitas (and then carnitas tacos) is a favorite of ours. Large batches of pasta sauces (which we freeze) are fun too.

I used to love cooking a big meal every weekend. I think once we get past the first year of M's life, maybe I"ll get back to it. Right now I'm just in survival mode and can't handle cooking a lot.

@LuLu Mom: How do you make homemade ravioli? Do you have a good recipe you wouldn't mind sharing? Ravioli is one of my absolute favorite foods

Last weekend we made stuffed peppers for the first time (YUM), and this weekend DH made chili and I tried out my cast-iron skillet with some jalapeno cornbread. Good stuff!

@grizz: this is the recipe I used and it was pretty good. I will make a couple tweaks to the sauce next time but it is a good starting point! http://www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/Homemade-Ravioli

Mmm, corned beef!

We made homemade ravioli with sausage/ricotta and beef last weekend. So tasty!

@regberadaisy: Corned beef & cabbage is one of our favorites. It's usually pretty expensive though. I'm definitely picking one up for St. Patty's day!