1. Oven-Fried Coconut Chicken and Rice w/ broccoli
2. Grilled Pizza – dough, pizza sauce, cheese, mushrooms, bacon, pepperoni
3. Szechuan Green Beans with Pork w/ rice
4. Charcoal-Grilled Sweet and Saucy Salmon w/ Red Pepper Risotto
5. Swiss Chicken Cutlets w/ roasted potatoes
6. Chicken Piccata w/ Lemon Screws
7. Beef Stroganoff Hamburger Dinner in a Skillet
Sweet of the Week: Stracciatella Ice Cream
The main challenge to overcome in my meal planning this week was lack of time and the desire to sleep a lot. I believe it took me about 4 hours to plan the food for this week because I kept letting myself get distracted! But I finally achieved success.
It’s the time of the market season where things have evened out. I’m getting potatoes, tomatoes, and squash with regularity and I know how to deal with those things fairly well. On weeks when I’m feeling lazy I can just roast the tomatoes, grill the squash and eggplant, and freeze everything for later use. Potatoes will survive until I get to them. This has allowed me to turn to cookbooks again and slowly peruse, looking for (recipes that reach out and grab me instead of having to find (recipes to use the vegetables I’ve acquired. It’s a pleasant shift.
The cookbook that I turned to this week was the most excellent The Best of America’s Test Kitchen 2008. It’s probably pretty clear by now that I’m a big fan of everything the Cook’s Illustrated people do. I’ve been reading their books like novels and wishing I had some post-it tabs to mark all the (recipes I want to try. The green beans and salmon are from that book.
Most of the other (recipes are tried and true (recipes from my collection that I haven’t made since I’ve been blogging. It will be nice to get to make a dent in those!