Easy Dinner Plans

With the holidays behind us, it's time to take a break from extravagant cooking and go easy on ourselves. We did stick to plan with the pasta with crab for New Year's Eve and black-eyed pea soup for New Year's Day. I doubled the soup recipe so it can be an easy reprise later in the week (with leftover cornbread). Tonight we'll ease up by going vegetarian, having linguine with spicy leek and tomato sauce, which was originally published in Bon Appetit. The fennel seeds and touch of vinegar make the sauce memorable. Dipping briefly back into rich eating tomorrow, we'll capitalize on Whole Food's Three Day Sale (tomorrow's your last chance!) and have a boneless turkey breast roast (can't resist it at $3.99/lb) with baked potatoes, roasted squash, etc. Then it really gets easy. Since I bought so much burger when it was 99 cents a pound at the Superior Whole Foods, we'll start pulling some out of the freezer for burgers on Monday. Tuesday will be the easy reheating of the New Year's soup, and Wednesday I'll defrost the cod that's $4.99 a package in the Three Day Sale, roasting some sweet potato spears (organic yams are 88 cents a pound at Sunflower right now) on the side. Thursday will involve rice, haven't decided what yet. Fun cooking on weekends, quick and easy for weekdays.