Sunday, March 30, 2014

Weekday Dinner Ideas

On a day likely to top 70 degrees in Boulder, this of necessity will be quick. We have something vegetarian at least once a week, so for tomorrow it will be fettuccine with tomato-cream sauce from Cooking Light. Whole Foods has that big size of Muir Glen organic canned tomatoes for the quite good price of $2 each through Tuesday.

Tuesday will be our usual reheat of something big made over the weekend, which this week is tonight's New England seafood chowder from Bon Appetit. Ah, to be having it on a New England shore instead.

By Wednesday, we'll want something with an Asian flair, something involving rice, and something easy, so chicken, asparagus, and broccoli stir-fry from Bon Appetit comes to mind as a suitable dish for the season and the day. Sprouts has chicken breast tenders for a not remarkable sale price of $2.49 a pound through Wednesday, but my freezer is well stocked with chicken breasts from great sales at Lucky's Market.

Thursday will also be an easy one, doing weekday Florentine: scrambled eggs with spinach and parmesan from Bon Appetit, adjusting the size of the ingredients as needed. I play pretty liberally with this recipe, always using the spinach and parmesan and cholesterol-free Nulaid eggs, but diverge however I want from there. This week I'll probably add some ham, pancetta or bacon, since we've already done one purely vegetarian dish, maybe some other greens or veggies, and it works well done in the style of an omelet or frittata as well. Breakfast for dinner is fine, but a frittata seems more appropriate than scrambled eggs for that time of day.

Enjoy today, before those winds kick up again!

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