Sunday, June 1, 2014

More Dinner Ideas

Starting with tonight, since I never did get that figured out on Friday. We still need something big this weekend to also serve as an easy midweek reheat, and since I need to quickly find a use for the kale from my Red Wagon CSA pickup, we'll do one last round of New England seafood chowder from Bon Appetit before summer hits. (Happy first day of June today!) Sprouts has Alaskan cod fillets for $7.99 a pound and sea scallops at $8.99 a pound through Wednesday. Another advantage of this idea is that I can do a huge salad on the side using the gorgeous baby lettuce mix from Red Wagon.

With the bok choy from Red Wagon still needing an idea and fresh Copper River salmon just $12.99 a pound, for tomorrow I'm thinking of experimenting with salmon bulgogi with bok choy and mushrooms from Bon Appetit. It's a spin on a Korean dish usually done with beef that I tried at Boulder's Korea House. I normally wouldn't mess with Copper River with anything more than a squeeze of lemon, but at Safeway's price, why not.

Tuesday we can reheat tonight's chowder, with the last of the Red Wagon lettuce if we don't finish it all tonight.

We'll want something vegetarian by Wednesday, and pasta hasn't yet made an appearance this week. With this year's basil currently growing and a fairly good stock of pesto still in the freezer from last fall, a simple pasta with pesto sounds like the ticket. Alternatively, since Wednesday is the last day of this week's sale on $1.88 a pound boneless skinless chicken breasts at the Lucky's Market in Longmont (think they're $5.99 at the Boulder Lucky's, and $2.99 at Sprouts through Wednesday), we could do sauteed or grilled chicken breasts slathered with pesto for a non-vegetarian option.

Thursday is still up in the air, possibly boneless pork loin chops, $2.98 a pound at the Longmont Lucky's through Wednesday.

Enjoy a beautiful morning in Boulder!

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