Good Friday morning and happy June. Where oh where is the time flying? On short time again, this will be quick. We'll be grilling this evening, so long as the breezes behave themselves, and with the fresh wild salmon season upon us, it will be Copper River. Whole Foods opened the season with a $24.99 a pound price, which the fish monger told me was considerably lower than they were expecting. A week or so into the season, their price may have dropped already, and I'll swing by to check it out, but I doubt it will have gone as low as Safeway's advertised Club price of $16.99 a pound (and it's $19.99 a pound at King Soopers, with card). (*See the post just above this for a price change update.) Accompaniments will be simple, like grilled diced sweet potato packages and corn on the cob.
I want to make something big tomorrow that can serve as an easy midweek reheat as well, but with temperatures approaching 90, it's no longer the weather for a casserole out of a hot oven. Turning to the stovetop, we'll do a big soup, a springtime spin on escarole soup from Saveur magazine. Instead of the escarole, I'll use a beautiful bag of braising mix from Cure Organic Farm, which can be obtained at either tomorrow's Boulder Farmers' Market or at the farm store at 75th and Arapahoe. Since we usually prefer poultry over beef, I'll also probably swap out the ground beef for the ground turkey that's on sale at Sunflower for just $1.97 a pound.
Sunday is looking like an experiment. With pea shoots/pea tendrils still likely at the Farmers' Market (and possibly at the Cure farm store), I'm thinking of trying soba with pea shoots, shiitake mushrooms, and leeks from Gourmet magazine. My family has briefly rescinded the pea shoot boycott, so I might as well run with it. This will be the centerpiece of dinner, but we'll probably also throw something on the grill to supplement it.
Which quickly gets us through what's looking to be a fairly warm weekend.
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