Menu 6/10/2012

1. Greek Chicken Salad w/ pita
2. Leftover Night (choir)
3. Mustard Crusted Tilapia (and Chicken) w/ Chard Gratin
4. Tangy Barbecue Chicken w/ Roasted Broccoli salad with Tangy Feta Dressing
5. grilled steaks w/ Salt Potatoes with Butter and Herbs out
6. Pork Tenderloin with Mustard Sauce w/ Zucchini with Basil, Pine Nuts, and Parmesan
7. Eggs à l’Oignon w/ maple sausage w/ bread of some sort
Snack: Radish and Beet Chips

I’m still working on The Norway Posts for the blog.  So far I have organized all of the pictures and written about a quarter of the content.  It’s coming along slowly, but surely. 

In the meantime, meals must still be planned.  This meal plan revolves quite a bit around the vegetables we picked up at the farmers market (yes, I have those posts to make as well) today.  Meals 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, and the snack of chips all include beautiful local produce – cucumbers, tomatoes, Swiss chard, broccoli, potatoes, basil, zucchini, radishes and beets.  I love this time of year! 

The meals also include meats from the freezer – steaks, pork tenderloin, and maple sausages. 

I also used print cookbook to help with meal planning this week, instead of just turning to the internet.  I picked out Local Flavors by Deborah Madison after I spent some time bonding with my cookbook collection.  You see, I started out with a bookcase in Art’s office dedicated to my cookbook collection but, over time, this collection has grown to take over three additional shelves on the other bookcase in the room as well as an unruly stack on the futon.  After much deliberation, we decided to move the collection and one of the bookcases into a bedroom and add another bookcase to the house for the overflow.  Thanks to Art and Lance’s help, this transfer was completed in a single day and I had the “pleasure” of getting to organize my collection.  Again.

But back to the cookbook - meals 3, 5, and 6 involve (recipes from Local Flavors.