More Dinners For This Week

Time to get planning for all the rest of this week's dinners. We need something with a rice base, and with beef stew meat $3.99/lb and organic broccoli only 99 cents a pound at Sunflower, that calls for an antioxidant-rich dish, stir-fried beef, broccoli, and yams from Bon Appetit, using the stew beef as an easy substitute for the flank steak.

As usual, we've made a big chowder over the weekend that forms a quick midweek reheat dinner, this time the potato leek chowder from Jane Brody's Good Food Book, with a big salad and fresh bread on the side.

The organic leeks on sale at Sunflower for just 99 cents a pound prompted our making the chowder, and they deserve another go-around, this time in our pasta dish of the week, which will be linguine with spicy leek and tomato sauce from Bon Appetit. Since we've already gone vegetarian with our chowder dinners, I'm thinking of experimenting by adding some of the shrimp that are on sale at Sunflower for just $2.97/lb at Sunflower. They're a pretty small size, but that would be fine in a dish like this. People in Italy might call me a heretic for combining shrimp and cheese, but I think it's delicious.

Finally, we need one more quick mid-week dinner that doesn't even call for looking at a recipe, so that will be sauteed pork chops ($3.99/lb at both Sprouts and Sunflower) finished with a drizzle of balsamic vinegar, with microwaved "baked" potatoes and something like chard or spinach on the side. Doesn't get much easier than that.

And that will do it for our dinner planning for the week.