Welcome to The Yellow Table Weekly.

Healthy, homemade meals don't happen by accident. They take planning and intention. But perhaps the biggest challenge is knowing what to cook – and who has time to spend hours online searching for recipes each week?

Think of Yellow Table Weekly as your personal meal-planning concierge. Every Friday, you'll receive a curated seasonal menu with 5 delicious dinner recipes (created by The Yellow Table cookbook author Anna Watson Carl) that can each be prepared in about 30 minutes or less. You'll also receive an organized grocery list and a time-saving prep list so you can get a jump start on shopping and cooking over the weekend. 

Plus, you’ll be joining a really fun community of other home cooks, who are excited to try new recipes, share photos online, and learn from each other. We'll have contests and giveaways, live video chats, and more. I hope you'll join us!

How It Works

For $7.99* per month, every Friday you'll receive a newsletter that includes:

• A delicious, seasonal dinner menu for the upcoming week

• 5 simple, healthy recipes (including vegan, vegetarian, GF, and DF options)

• Mouth-watering photos of each dish

• A genius prep-ahead plan to save you time during the week

• An organized grocery list that you can simply check off as you shop

All that's left for you to do is to cook and enjoy delicious meals each week!

*I’m offering free subscriptions through the end of the year! You won’t have to pay a subscription fee until January 2021, should you choose to continue.

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About Anna

Hi! I’m Anna Watson Carl, author of The Yellow Table: A Celebration of Everyday Gatherings (Sterling, 2015) and creator of the blog The Yellow Table. I’ve been fortunate to spend my career doing what I love: creating (and sharing) simple, seasonal recipes, and writing about food.

I studied cooking in France, at La Varenne Ecole de Cuisine, and spent several years working in the test kitchens of food magazines in NYC (Martha Stewart, Bon Appetit, Real Simple, and Food & Wine, to name a few). These days, as a busy mom, I cook more than ever. Whether preparing a simple weeknight meal for my family or throwing a dinner party for friends, I genuinely love spending time in the kitchen.

But you know what I don’t love? Opening the fridge at 5:30 p.m., with two cranky little ones fussing at my feet, and having no idea what’s for dinner. This all-too-familiar scenario has taught me the importance of meal-planning. For my own sanity's sake, I’ve had to start shopping and prepping ahead, so there's always something ready to go in the fridge. 

After talking to friends (from busy professionals to stay-at-home moms), I quickly learned that I wasn’t alone in the dinnertime struggle. They all told me that they wanted to cook more, but lacked the time to to meal plan and scroll through endless recipes online. And everyone said they were sick of cooking the same boring dishes again and again. Thus, the idea for Yellow Table Weekly was born.

My passion, as you may know from reading my blog or cookbook, is gathering people around the table. Yellow Table Weekly fits right into that vision: by simplifying weeknight meals, I hope to encourage families and friends to spend more with each other – talking, eating, and connecting – around the table each week.

xo, Anna

Evie and Gray - my mini sous chefs (and toughest critics!)

I was never a meal-planner until I had children. If given my preference, I’d shop at outdoor markets daily, buy what inspires me, and eat dinner at 8:30 PM. (Oh, those were the days!) Now that I have a 2- and a 4-year-old, we eat dinner closer to 6 PM, and I learned the hard way that if I don’t have the meal planned ahead of time – ideally partially-prepped ahead - then chances are I will be making a box of mac and cheese.

BUT, eating as a family is so important to me, and introducing my kids to a variety of healthy foods is one of my top priorities. Sure, like every kid, they are picky, but I find that the more I involve them in cooking, and the more they have a chance to try out new foods at the dinner table, the more open they are to eating new things. Feeding them can be a challenge, but ultimately, that makes them great test subjects for Yellow Table Weekly recipes – if they’ll eat it, chances are your kids will, too!

Fortunately, they love to spend time with me in the kitchen, and I'm happy to let them help in simple ways, from tearing herbs to shelling peas to stirring cookie batter. (If you want to see them in action, tune in Wednesday mornings at 9 AM CST for Baking Therapy on my @annawatsoncarl Instagram account! It’s always crazy and hilarious!)

(Photo by Abby Saunders)

Try it today and get a free subscription through December*

For $6.99 per month, every Friday you'll receive a newsletter that includes: 

• A delicious, seasonal weeknight menu for the upcoming week

• 5 healthy, simple dinner recipes (including vegan, vegetarian, GF, and DF options)

• Mouth-watering photos of each dish

• A genius prep-ahead plan to save you time in the kitchen

• An organized grocery list that you simply check off as you shop

*Starting in January 2021, your paid membership will begin at $7.99 per month. Feel free to cancel at any time if you're not 100% satisfied.