More Dinners For This Week

Getting back to the dinner planning, we'll need to lighten up after tonight's steak indulgence, so with 41/50 count shrimp at $3.97/lb at Sunflower, we'll turn to shrimp and corn pilaf from Bon Appetit to start off the weekday dinners. Yet another chance to fit in more of our local corn. A side veggie could be kale sauteed with a bit of garlic and red pepper, with organic kale just 99 cents a bunch at Sunflower right now.

Then as usual, we have a dinner that's a quick reheat from the weekend, this time the cod chowder, with a big salad on the side.

It will then be time for pasta (and another opportunity for fresh, local corn), so we'll try a new recipe from the current issue of Bon Appetit, tagliatelle with fresh corn pesto. I don't usually drag out the food processor in the middle of the week, but this recipe sounds pretty quick, even with it.

Finally, with fresh mozzarella on sale at both Sprouts and Sunflower, and my herb pots bursting with basil, oregano, and parsley, we'll probably put together a vegetarian risotto with mozzarella and herbs. A tempting alternative is pork chops from either Lucky's or Sprouts (bought by Wednesday) with a peach salsa, since peaches are absolutely everywhere right now. (Look here for a comparison of peach prices this week, bearing in mind that those sales will end on either Tuesday or Wednesday.)

And that will do it for the rest of the week's planning.