A Week Of Dinner Ideas

These are so comfort food oriented and mundane, it's hardly worth even writing.  Plus, I had lots of great ideas for early fall chowders, but the family is in rebellion over too many soups these past few weeks, so my ideas were nixed.  Here's the barest outline, backing up to Friday.

Friday - massive pesto making and freezing, with the first hard frost imminent.  Most pesto went into the freezer, but some went on sautéed steelhead trout from the Longmont Lucky's at $6.99 a pound, plus a bit on some tri-colored pasta shells that Whole Foods has very reasonably in its own line.

Yesterday, the new Longmont Lucky's sale has an extraordinary "wild oregano Greek marinated flattened chicken" on sale for $1.99 a pound this week, and that was very fun.  As I was checking out with it, the cashier commented that he'd just had it, and it was awesome.  Roasted veggies on the side (time to get into fall mode).

Tonight will be a comfort food pizza, since the family is rebelling against any more chowders for the near future.  Pizza alla salsiccia from Cooking Light will be on deck, a longtime favorite for pizza with sausage and fennel.  I always double it, using the multigrain fresh pizza dough from Whole Foods to fill an entire rimmed baking sheet, which makes plenty for another dinner in this house.

Tomorrow we'll continue this comfort Italian theme, trying a new recipe from the current issue of Bon Appetit, a very simple pasta with pancetta.  I'm not finding it with a quick web search, but it has about five ingredients, with the usual suspects like olive oil, garlic, and parmesan, in the current issue.  No more time to look, and the Bon Appetit site likes to lock up my computer for about five minutes while it loads all its add-ons.

Tuesday will be a return to all those lovely pizza leftovers.

Wednesday will be an improvised risotto with pesto, taking one of this weekend's many pesto containers from the freezer.

Then Thursday is usually salmon burgers from Whole Foods, and no more time to write!