Sunday, May 8, 2011

Weekday Dinner Ideas

Time to start thinking about some easy meals for weekdays. For tomorrow, I'm thinking exceptionally easy, wanting to take advantage of the large cinque formaggio pizza that's just $7.99 at Whole Foods through Tuesday. This is good on its own, or dresses up well with additions like mushrooms and Yves veggie pepperoni to keep it a vegetarian dish. For the side salad, Alfalfa's has red, green, or romaine lettuce for $1.50 a head, and I think I might have seen an unadvertised sale at Whole Foods, too.

We always have something big made over the weekend that serves as an easy midweek reheat, and for Tuesday, it will be potato and yam soup with bacon and spinach, again with a side salad, and maybe some fresh bread from either Alfalfa's or Whole Foods' bakeries.

Catching some reasonably priced asparagus (Whole Foods' $1.99 a pound sale runs through Tuesday), and looking for a rice dish, we'll turn to seasonally-appropriate spring risotto from last month's issue of Cooking Light. This would also be great with any remaining spring greens from the Farmer's Market tossed in as well.

For Thursday, I plan to pick up the ground pork that's $2.99 a pound through Wednesday at Sprouts, since that would be perfect for my new fascination with a dish variously called laap, larb, or laab, which hails from Thailand and also possibly Laos. The spicy ground meat can be wrapped in lettuce leaves for a very satisfying, diet-friendly meal.

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

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