The Rest of This Week's Dinner Ideas

The weekend's almost over, so it's time to get the rest of the dinner plans in gear. We need a pasta dish, and I'm thinking of an easy improvisation for Monday, involving chopped chicken breasts (both organic and non-organic on sale this week at Sunflower) sauteed with a mix of diced onion, some garlic, tomatoes, asparagus (99 cents/lb at Sunflower), a few organic broccoli flowerettes (99 cents/lb by the bunch at Sunflower), and some diced olives. Whatever else you're inclined to add to the pan before the cooked pasta goes in would probably be fine too.

Then of course we have an easy midweek reprise dinner, this week being the fennel-potato soup with smoked salmon from Bon Appetit, just needing a salad and fresh bread on the side to complete it.

For a rice-based dish this week, there's a stir-fry that this week's sale is demanding be made: chicken, asparagus, and broccoli stir-fry, also from Bon Appetit (and submitted by a Colorado reader, no less). Its headline ingredients are all on sale at Sunflower this week at very good prices.

Finally, for an easy, no-recipe-needed midweek quickie, pork chops will be on deck, with some microwaved "baked" russet potatoes, and a quick veggie side of either asparagus, organic broccoli, or organic kale or spinach, absolutely all of which are on sale at Sunflower this week. (I don't favor any particular store, but Sunflower does seem to be winning this week.)

And that will do it until next week's planning.