Weekday Dinner Ideas

Better late than never.  For tonight, Sprouts' sale through tomorrow on boneless center-cut pork chops for a super low $1.99 a pound, plus their sale on organic on-the-vine tomatoes for $1.48 a pound (the lowest I ever recall seeing) is just screaming at me to do garlic pork with tomato and basil from Cooking Light.  It also doesn't hurt that I can use a bunch of fresh basil from my own plants in this.

Tomorrow will be a reheat of something big previously made, which this week is corn and fingerling potato chowder with applewood smoked bacon, also from Cooking Light.  The corn is obviously from Munson Farm, and while it's nice to have fingerlings for the potatoes, others will certainly do.

Thursdays are always quick around here, so I've already grabbed more of those very low $1.99 a pound pork chops at Sprouts before the sale's end tomorrow to do a simple sauté of them.  With the exciting news that Whole Foods already has freshly roasted Hatch green chiles (see a post just below) and our local Munson corn in full swing, the side will be creamy stovetop corn with poblano chiles from the New York Times.  Anyone who would take the time to roast two chiles themselves for this dish would be out of their mind.  I also use Straus plain nonfat yogurt in this instead of the crème fraiche, but it requires care not to boil it, unlike those cream-heavy (but oh so delicious) products.

So that's a quick one for the week, and we'll see if we actually get the lower temperatures and rain possible for tomorrow.  Chowder would be lovely comfort food on a rainy evening.