Normally I would have fourteen dinners all planned out and lined up for the next two weeks but I went through the calendar and it turns out that if you account for *No Cook Weekends and all the nights Mr. E will be edifying young geologic minds in night school, we’ll only be together for six nights total, so I only planned six dinners. It’s just too much work for too little reward for me to cook up a whole big hoo ha when I’m the only one eating it and I’ve got a baby balanced on one hip. So, six dinners, and two to grow on.
1. Linguine with spicy red clam sauce, garlic bread, tossed salad. (I’ll hopefully eat a lot of salad, not a lot of garlic bread).
2. Southwestern turkey soup, chipotle cheddar scone
3. Chicken peanut stew with spinach and yams over rice
4. Beef and green beans and noodles
5. Roasted chicken, ranch mashed potatoes, autumn salad
6. Ham, roasted root veggies, jicama and orange salad
7. Chicken puttanesca, pasta, ceasar salad
8. Salmon, pomegranate salad, au gratin potatoes
*Whenever Mr. E and I start feeling really burnt out – too much cooking, too much dishwashing, too much time spent not having fun, we institute No Cook Weekends and don’t make any fancy meals on the weekends for awhile. So we’ll just eat cereal or lean cuisines or cans of soup. Not as healthy physically, maybe, but sometimes you just need a break.
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Sometimes you do just need a break! Agreed!
(I’m going to use a few of these recipes, I believe.)