1. grilled goat chops w/ Swiss Chard Gratin
2. Leftovers
3. Salmon with Mustard and Dill Sauce w/ Mashed Potato Cakes with Onions and Kale (Can I make these with turnips to supplement the potatoes? Probably so.)
4. Moroccan Chicken w/ Quinoa with Squash, Garbanzo Beans, and Cumin
5. Baked Layered Pattypan Squash w/ Baked Lemon Pasta (I’ll forget to toss the shelled peas into the pasta for excitement. Oops.)
6. Caesar Salad Pizza I was looking forward to this, finally, but with my choir schedule this week we’ve decided that we need to have a second leftover night to fit into our hectic week. Next week, Caesar Salad Pizza, you will be mine!
7. Breakfast: Parfait w/ Eggs Benedict
8. Breakfast: Parfait w/ Parsley Goat Cheese Eggs w/ toast
Gazpacho (with garlic scapes for the garlic.)
Granola
I feel like I did a bit better last week since only one meal got carried over to this week! Woo! This week is a bit of an unusual one, as you can probably tell from meals 7 and 8. My parents are coming to visit this weekend and we’ll only be home for breakfasts on Saturday and Sunday. After breakfast on Saturday we’ll be going to the Food and Wine Festival at National Harbor and eating dinner somewhere at the festival. After a late breakfast on Sunday we’ve got my choir concert and will probably be grabbing an early-ish dinner somewhere on the way home. Since I won’t be able to make any exciting dinners, I’ll be attempting to make some exciting breakfasts instead. The parfaits will be made with whatever fresh fruits I can get at the market that morning, banana, yogurt, and homemade granola. Yum. I’ve never made Eggs Benedict, so that should be a challenge. I’ve never actually poached an egg either, buy my mom will be there to help me so I have no fear!
The goal for the rest of the week is to use up the weekly vegetable bounty. I’m not sure that everything is accounted for in the plan, but I feel like I’ve got most of it in there somewhere. I’ll even need to stop by the market on Wednesday in order to pick up a few squashes for meal 5. (Meal 5, by the way, is my meal of the week for updating pictures from old (recipes.)
We’ve also realized that we need to start having a weekly leftover night whether I’ve got choir or not. Why? Because there’s just too much food otherwise! We can’t eat it all! This means it ether goes to waste or we try to eat it all and then it goes to waist. Hopefully having a weekly leftover night will mitigate this problem.
And the gazpacho? That’s just because I’ve missed it so much these past months and I want it so much! Soon I’ll be able to make panzanella too!
Life is good.