What Am I Cooking?: Monday Meals

Monday, July 11, 2011

Monday Meals

We're a few weeks into our CSA season here and the beautiful greens are taking center stage. It's taken me a bit to get back on track with meal planning but I am getting back into the summer groove. Looking back through the archives of taste a little summer has helped quite a bit. Here's the plan for this week.

Saturday: Green pasta with homemade pesto and salad

Sunday: Stir-fried veggies, noodles, and spicy green beans

Monday: Dinner with friends (my contribution: radishes with Hawaiian red salt, homemade lemon-blueberry frozen yogurt, and lemon-thyme shortbread)

Tuesday: BBQ tofu with kale chips and fennel crisps

Wednesday: Homemade pizza and salad

Thursday: Grilled chicken and salad with kefir "ranch" dressing

Friday: Leftovers

What are you cooking this week?
What have you been seeing in your CSA box?

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VickiJuly 13, 2011 at 2:42 PM
I seem to see a wee Jedi in the midst of the greens. Now do I?
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Well, what are you having for dinner?

Before the pandemic and Staying-Around-the-House became a thing for so many of us, we found ourselves often wondering at 4:00, 5:00 or 6:00 pm, (dare I say 7:00?) what we're for dinner. When it gets too late, we end up ordering something or driving thru someplace and handing someone a wad of cash - sometimes for food we're not enthused over.

Lately I found myself tired of my own ideas. (And, I love to cook.) So we had a sushi night, a Thai night and some other delivery night when the challenge became both real and fun. I want to continue to.be enthused about the joy of the kitchen.

To be excited about dinner, we need inspiration, ideas -- a plan. So, here we are, together, talking about the big question: What are you cooking?

Thoughts?

Henri Nouwen's said:

The table is one of the most intimate places in our lives. It is there that we give ourselves to one another. When we say, "Take some more, let me serve you another plate, let me pour you another glass, don't be shy, enjoy it," we say a lot more than our words express. We invite our friends to become part of our lives. We want them to be nurtured by the same food and drink that nurture us. We desire communion. That is why a refusal to eat and drink what a host offers is so offensive. It feels like a rejection of an invitation to intimacy.

Strange as it may sound, the table is the place where we want to become food for one another. Every breakfast, lunch, or dinner can become a time of growing communion with one another.

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Monday, July 11, 2011

Monday Meals

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