Week of February 19: Especially Fast, Good Enough to Repeat

Quick, full meal

This was a strong week of super fast recipes. First a great new, super simple fish recipe. Next was a thoroughly well-rounded cherry pork loin chop with green beans and ginger-sesame sweet potato mash. Spinach tortellini sounded like an easy way to work spinach into PMM, and next up was a lentil curry. Lunch leftovers were wonderful all week.

Friday finished with a meal after PMM went to bed- shrimp in a white wine sauce served over marinara polenta. It looks fancy, but truly was finished by the time bed-time stories were done!

Fancy grown-up food, in <15 minutes

Week of February 19:

Sunday: Red snapper w/ cilantro, lime, and ginger butter

Monday: Cherry glazed pork with green beans and sweet potato

Tuesday: Spinach tortellini

Wednesday: Indian lentil curry w/ yogurt

Thursday: Breakfast for dinner, including real Farmer’s Market Bacon!

Friday: Smoked paprika shrimp with polenta

Saturday: Falafel

Week of February 12

This week started of with unabashed decadence: bacon cooked salmon with bacon farro risotto and grilled butternut squash. The lamb was good, but after bacon cooked salmon, it’s all a bit downhill.

Bacon was the focus of Sunday's dinner

Week of February 12:

Sunday: Bacon cooked salmon, farro risotto with bacon, and grilled butternut squash

Monday: Homemade veggie pizza

Tuesday: Slow cooked Moroccan lamb w/ pine nut & spinach cous cous

Wednesday: Home-made black bean burgers, fruit salad

Thursday: Leftovers

Friday: Turkey sort-of picatta, grilled carrots and asparagus

Saturday: Take-out from Flavors of East Africa- the goat dish was the winner, but the chicken curry was a close second.

Squash Risotto and Wax beans

This risotto seems fancy, but isn’t hard to make. It does take a bit more time at the stove than other meals, but if you prep in advance and have a kitchen timer so you don’t forget to do the minimal maintenance during cooking, it can be done on a weeknight, too. It’s amazingly tasty, and makes phenomenal leftovers for lunches.