This week. Argh. I was not thinking clearly when I was at the farmers market and bought way too much veg, completely forgetting that I’m only able to cook dinner four nights this week! Thankfully the winter squashes and sweet potatoes will hold until next week, so I was able to ignore those in my planning.
We also had an unexpected bounty of cow come our way. Our farmer had a customer back out of a cow order at the last minute so she asked us if we wanted 1⁄4 cow to help her out with freezer space. Our freezer, as I’ve mentioned, is quite spare, so we were happy to help her out. The downside is that we weren’t able to pick the cuts, like we normally do. The upside is that we now have a freezer full of delicious cow. Of course our freezer doesn’t really have anything aside from cow.. so I’ve asked the guys to promise to tell me before they get sick of eating it every night. (I assume that future weeks will have more variety with animal proteins, but I only had four meals to plan this week!)
Lots of the cow came in steak form, so I predict lots of “grilled steak” nights in the future.