No stories. No pretension. No unrealistic ingredient lists. Just food for tired parents, busy people, and anyone who's too knackered to care about plating.
This is a recipe site for people who are tired. People who work full-time, parent full-time, or just exist full-time and don't have the energy to chiffonade basil or make their own stock from scratch.
We test every recipe in real kitchens with real constraints. The prep time includes the time it actually takes to chop an onion when you're knackered. The ingredient lists don't include things you need to order online or hunt down in specialty stores. The methods are written for humans, not food stylists.
If a recipe says 20 minutes, it means 20 minutes for a normal person, not a chef. If it says "one pot", we mean one pot. If it says "cheap", it's actually cheap. No tricks. No fine print.
We're not here to sell you a lifestyle. We're not here to make you feel inadequate because your kitchen doesn't look like a magazine shoot. We're not here to tell you a fifteen-minute story about our grandmother's Tuscan villa before you get to the actual recipe.
We don't care if your bench is messy. We don't care if you're using the cheap olive oil. We don't care if you're serving this with frozen chips instead of hand-cut artisanal potatoes.
We care that you eat something warm. We care that it didn't take all your remaining energy. We care that it tasted good enough that you'd make it again.
Cooking shouldn't be another thing you feel guilty about. It should be the thing that keeps you going when everything else is hard. Weeknight is recipes for people who are doing their best, which is always good enough.
Weeknight is made by people who understand what it's like to come home at 7pm with nothing planned and two hungry kids asking what's for dinner. We're not professional chefs. We're professional tired people who've worked out how to feed ourselves and others without losing our minds.
Every recipe is tested by actual humans in actual kitchens with actual constraints. If something takes longer than we say, we update the time. If an ingredient is hard to find, we remove it. If a method is too fiddly, we simplify it.
Because we were sick of recipe sites that lie about timing. Sick of ingredients lists that assume you've got a pantry like a professional kitchen. Sick of methods that require fourteen bowls and three different appliances. Sick of being made to feel inadequate because we don't have time to make everything from scratch.
We made Weeknight because we needed it to exist. And if you're here, you probably needed it too.