Friday, March 22, 2013

Weekend Dinner Ideas

Heading into a rainy/snowy (yay!) weekend, I'm thinking about a lot of comfort food.  We'll stick with the fish tradition for tonight, and although $10.99 a pound at Sprouts isn't the best price we've ever seen for previously frozen wild sockeye fillets, I'm thinking of reprising a dish that was quite well received the first time I made it, seared salmon with soy-ginger noodles and vegetables from the Whole Foods website.  Don't tell Whole Foods, but it only takes a minute to dice a bit of fresh ginger to use with regular soy sauce, rather than buying their prepared soy ginger sauce, although I'm sure it's wonderful.

With snow promised for tomorrow and boneless skinless chicken breasts $1.99 a pound at Sprouts, we'll go with chicken and mushrooms in garlic white wine sauce from Cooking Light.  I'll head to Safeway for the wide noodles, since I can't find the yokeless ones at our natural stores, and egg noodles pack a surprisingly high cholesterol wallop.

We'll still need something big made this weekend for a quick midweek reheat, and our chilly weather plus the current sales are pulling me towards one last winter-like dish, sweet potato and sausage soup from Bon Appetit.  I'll use the chicken sausage that are $2.99 a pound at Sprouts and fully cooking them in just a few minutes, rather than the cooked ones called for.  Sprouts also has organic garnet yams (let's not get into that yam vs sweet potato discussion) for $1.25 a pound (not the best ever, but okay), and bulk spinach at a fantastic $3.99 a pound.

Which gets us through a weekend that hopefully will provide a bunch of much needed moisture!

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