Today is Whole Foods' big one-day sale on coho salmon for $8.99 a pound, making tonight's dinner a no-brainer: coho will go on the grill. A good side dish for this heat will be Caesar potato salad with sugar snap peas from Bon Appetit. I've seen some nice organic local potatoes arriving (we now have both the Cure Organic Farm store and Munson's stand available at 75th and Valmont, in addition to tomorrow's Farmer's Market). Our snap pea season is done, but I'm hoping to catch the last of the local snow peas to use instead (that's a very long shot too, but store-bought will also work). Some Munson's corn on the side sounds perfect.
For tomorrow, with this prolonged heat only expected to get worse, I'm turning back to Mark Bittman's 101 20-Minute Dishes for Inspired Picnics, this time looking at number 88, shrimp and pesto on rolls. Both Sprouts and Sunflower have deals on cooked shrimp this week, skipping the step of even cooking it. For the pesto, I'll make it even easier by going with prepared. While there are lots of excellent brands of pesto out there, my preference is Whole Foods' own, which hides at the Pearl Street store next to the fresh pizza dough and other pizza fixings, far removed from the other pestos. With leftover potato salad that's filled with other veggies too, it's a non-cook night for a sizzling day.
By Sunday, we still need to do something big that will serve as an easy mid-week reheat, and I haven't begun to get enough of Munson's local corn, so we'll try a new recipe from the latest (August) issue of Cooking Light, bacon-corn chowder with shrimp. Both Sprouts and Sunflower have the organic celery for 99 cents a bunch, and Sunflower is doing well for the side salad too, with good deals on organic lettuce and cluster tomatoes.
And that will get us through yet another hot weekend.
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