More Dinners For This Week

Getting back to our dinner planning, we need something with a rice base, and it has been a while since beef has been in the picture. We'll therefore start the workweek with stir-fried beef, broccoli and yams from Bon Appetit, conveniently made with stew beef that's on sale for $3.99/lb at Sunflower (sometimes they have a stir-fry cut at a matching price, too) and organic broccoli that's 99 cents a pound at Sunflower, or just 49 cents a pound at Lucky's Market.

Over the weekend we of course made something that serves as a second quick midweek reheat, and this time it's the cod chowder with fingerling potatoes, done in our spin as a cod and corn chowder. All you need is a big salad on the side and possibly some fresh bread for those runners in the family.

For another super easy midweek dinner, capitalize on all the boneless, skinless chicken breast sales going on this week by simply sauteing some chicken, possibly coated with a few panko breadcrumbs left over from the weekend's eggplant parmesan. Microwave some "baked" potatoes on the side, and if you're feeling ambitious, whip up another end of summer side veggie by consulting a recipe. Green bean and radish salad from Bon Appetit is a super easy one.

Finally, we need a pasta dish, so I'll take a chance on fresh corn still being available (have to fit it in one last time), and go for zucchini, corn, and basil fusilli with bacon from Gourmet magazine. Using the prepared pesto it calls for makes this a quick dish, and my cupboards are stocked with organic whole wheat pasta from Sunflower's 99 cent sale.

So that completes our planning for the week, celebrating our end of summer produce bounty while we can. Maybe by next week I'll be willing to admit it's actually fall already.