If it's Friday, it must be time to get some plans together. For tonight, I'm inclined to go with fennel-potato soup with smoked salmon from Bon Appetit. This is written as a first course soup, but I turn it into a main one (with enough for a reprise later in the week) by adding significantly more smoked salmon than it calls for. Hot smoked salmon works well, rather than a delicate lox-like salmon, and I have a couple of packages in my freezer from an excellent prior sale. For the potatoes, don't forget the fabulous price Vitamin Cottage still has on five pound bags of organic russets, just $1.50 each.
Continuing with the salmon theme, but of a different variety, since previously frozen wild caught salmon has reappeared on sale at both Sprouts and Sunflower (see to the left for prices), more salmon will make it on the plates for Saturday. It might be simply done on a grill pan with a squeeze of lemon, or dressed up a little bit in a really simple preparation, pan-roasted salmon with ginger and curry from Gourmet. Rice on the side gets dressed up with shallots and herbs of choice.
To finish off the weekend, we'll go carnivorous, indulging in the beef short ribs that are $3.99/lb for boneless ones at Sprouts. They are easy to do in the oven, treated with a bit of barbeque sauce. And since the oven will be running anyway, throw in some russets from that organic bag from Vitamin Cottage to have bakers on the side. Even health nuts can enjoy a beef short rib every once in a while.
And that at least gets us through the weekend, with more planning to come.
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