The weekend is a good excuse to make something a little different. Not necessarily complicated, but maybe a recipe you wouldn't normally squeeze into a rushed weekday morning or throw together after a long day.

This week's RecipeBoss community picks fit that idea. There's a savory Dutch baby for brunch, blueberry oatmeal bars to keep around for breakfast or snacking, a fried green tomato spin on the BLT, a crispy chicken sandwich loaded with fresh tomato and basil, and sticky honey garlic pork meatballs that can work as either an appetizer or dinner.

Here are five recipes to try this weekend.

Savory Tomato and Cheddar Dutch Baby

A Dutch baby is usually associated with sweet toppings, but this version takes it in a completely different direction.

The simple batter combines eggs, milk, and flour with sharp cheddar and chopped sun-dried tomatoes. It goes into a hot, buttered skillet before baking at high heat until puffed and golden.

The cheddar brings plenty of savory flavor while the sun-dried tomatoes add a concentrated tomato bite throughout the pancake.

At about 30 minutes from start to finish, it's an interesting alternative to the usual eggs or pancakes for weekend brunch. It can also work as a light lunch or dinner.

Creative Blueberry Oatmeal Breakfast Bars

Fresh blueberries find their way into an easy batch of oatmeal bars that can handle breakfast, snacking, or both.

Rolled oats are combined with flour, brown sugar, cinnamon, butter, egg, and vanilla before fresh blueberries and lemon zest are folded into the mixture.

The blueberries bring bursts of fruit while the lemon zest adds brightness against the brown sugar and cinnamon.

The recipe makes eight servings, so this is also a useful weekend baking project if you want something ready to grab over the next few days.

Just make sure to let the bars cool completely before cutting them into squares.

Crispy Fried Green Tomato BLT with Spicy Aioli

The classic BLT gets a Southern-inspired twist with crispy fried green tomatoes.

Thick tomato slices are coated with seasoned flour and cornmeal before being fried until golden. They're layered onto toasted sourdough with crispy bacon, lettuce, and a spicy aioli made with mayonnaise, sriracha, and lime.

Green tomatoes bring a firmer texture and tangier flavor than the ripe tomatoes you'd normally find on a BLT, while the cornmeal coating adds plenty of crunch.

It's a sandwich that takes a little more effort than the original, but that's also what makes it a good weekend lunch.

Creative Crispy Chicken Cutlet Sandwich with Tomato and Basil

If you're going to make a chicken sandwich at home, you might as well make the chicken crispy.

Chicken breasts are sliced into thin cutlets and coated with seasoned flour, egg, and panko breadcrumbs. Lemon zest is mixed directly into the panko, adding a little brightness to the crispy coating.

Once fried until golden, the chicken is piled onto toasted buns with ripe tomato slices, fresh basil, and mayonnaise.

The tomato and basil keep the sandwich relatively simple, letting the crispy chicken remain the main event.

Ready in about 30 minutes, this one could easily become either a weekend lunch or casual dinner.

Sticky Honey Garlic Pork Meatballs

These pork meatballs can go in a couple of different directions depending on what you need.

Serve them on their own and you've got a shareable appetizer. Add rice, noodles, or vegetables and they can become the centerpiece of dinner.

The meatballs are made with ground pork, panko, garlic, ginger, and egg before being browned in a skillet. They finish cooking in a sauce made from soy sauce, honey, rice vinegar, sesame oil, more garlic, and ginger.

As the meatballs simmer, the sauce reduces and thickens around them, creating that sticky sweet-and-savory coating.

Green onions and sesame seeds finish everything just before serving.

Make Something Different This Weekend

There's no single theme you have to follow when deciding what to cook over the weekend.

Maybe it's finally trying a savory Dutch baby instead of making the same scrambled eggs. Maybe it's turning green tomatoes into a crispy BLT, making chicken cutlet sandwiches from scratch, or putting a skillet of sticky pork meatballs in the middle of the table.

And sometimes it's simply baking a batch of blueberry oatmeal bars so there's something good waiting in the kitchen tomorrow morning.

That's what this weekend's collection is about: five different reasons to spend a little time making something you might not cook during the week.

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