More Dinners For This Week

With the weekend half over, it's time to get the rest of the week's dinner plans in order. The asparagus for $1.77/lb at Sunflower is still on my mind, so for our rice-based dish of the week, we'll go for asparagus and leek risotto with prosciutto, an oldie but very goodie from Bon Appetit. Bear in mind that you can get whole pieces of prosciutto at the Pearl Street Whole Foods cheese counter for far less than the thinly sliced stuff costs.

Of course, we made one extra large dish over the weekend for a quick midweek reheat, in this case our spicy turkey chile verde with hominy and squash. A big salad and some whole wheat tortillas on the side complete that dinner in a snap.

Looking for our pasta dish of the week, there are several possibilities coming to mind. The winner might be linguine with bay scallops, fennel, and tomatoes from Bon Appetit, since organic fennel is on sale at Sunflower, where a substitute of sea scallops can be picked up on sale, too. I would bet that this would be delicious with the addition of more of that $1.77/lb asparagus as well.

Finally, to get back to our seasonal celebration of corn and roasted green chiles (and to finish off the package of tortillas that accompanied the turkey chile), we'll turn once again to chicken burritos with chiles and corn, using our roasted chiles from the Farmers Market instead of the fresh poblanos in the recipe. Yet another chance to fit in fresh corn from Munson Farm. We'd better hurry up on that, since Wednesday of this week marks the first day of fall. (!)

And that will take us through to next Friday's planning.