1. (Game Day) Crispy Polenta Triangles with Herbed Goat Cheese, Baked Manicotti with Prosciutto, Balsamic Zucchini, Spiced Biscotti
2. Leftover Manicotti and Balsamic Zucchini
3. Chicken Florentine w/ pasta
4. Potato-Crusted Salmon with Dijon Shallot Sauce w/ Sautéed Green Beans
5. Skillet Carbonara Casserole
6. Out to dinner with parents!
7. (breakfast with parents, dinner) Coffee Cake, breakfast for dinner (omelets, bacon, hashbrowns)
8. (Game Day) Hummus, Black Bean Hummus, pita pieces, Shepherd’s Pie, salad, Chocolate Amaretti Cake
This week poses many challenges in the meal planning department and I always seem to lag behind on weeks following a Game Day. Thankfully our Game Day meal provided us with lots of leftovers, so tonight’s dinner was a cinch.
Art is gone all week to the Land of Cow, so this gives me the opportunity to try out another fish dish, as seen in meal 4. Every other weekday night has either choir or aikido, so I’m trying to stick to easier recipes that I won’t gripe about preparing at 10pm. (For what it’s worth, we tend to keep west coast hours, so dinner at 10pm isn’t as bad as it might sound.)
My choir concert is on Friday and we’ll be eating dinner out with my parents afterward. Woo! Then my parents will be joining us for breakfast on Saturday before heading back home.
We’ve also got another Game Day (potentially) next Sunday if schedules permit. I’m trying to focus on “ridiculously easy” this time, so I think I might go the Taco Salad route but I’m unclear. I’ll work on sorting the rest out later in the week.
Since the 2009 Cook’s Country Annual arrived for me in the mail this week, I used that for picking out some new recipes which I’ll be making for days 3, 5, and the breakfast of day 7.