Time to get going on dinner ideas for the rest of the week. Simplicity is the name of the game as we head into the holidays, so we'll start by reheating the great fennel-potato soup with smoked salmon that we made over the weekend. A nice tossed salad and some bread from Whole Foods' bakehouse round out an easy meal.
It will then be time for something rice-based, and for an almost-winter evening, butternut squash risotto with shrimp sounds appealing. This could be made with the very big shrimp on sale this week at Sprouts, or more likely with smaller shrimp pulled from my freezer from a prior sale. Tis the season of course for winter squash, pretty cheap everywhere.
On to a pasta dish, and keeping with the simplicity theme, it will be spaghetti with turkey meatballs. When I saw that Sunflower was emphasizing ground turkey in this week's sales, I hoped that their wonderful turkey meatballs might make an appearance (they don't always have them), and sure enough, they're back, and at a very reasonable $3.99 a pound. Some jarred pasta sauce enhanced with a little onion, and voila, it's dinner.
To round out the week's planning, since Sprouts and Sunflower are warring on chicken prices this week, and we haven't yet done anything with an Asian influence, how about Kung Pao chicken from Cooking Light, served over brown rice. There's lots of broccoli in the dish, but a little side of steamed edamame never hurts, either.
And that gets us through the rest of the week's planning, with some quick and easy meals for busy times.
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