Happy Weekend!  I am celebrating my nephew’s bar mitzvah this weekend, so we have a lot of family events. Hubs and I are hosting a brunch at our home on Sunday. I am breaking it all down in Monday’s newsletter.  Subscribe here if you don’t already.  For my monthly online cooking class subscribers, I am doing a live zoom “office hours” on Wednesday at 5:00 pm PT. Check your email for the link!  Here’s your dinner planner for the week:

 

Meatless Monday: Vegan Lentil Shepherd’s Pie (great time to give the test-run before the holidays!)

Tuesday: Creamy Polenta with mushrooms, white beans and braised greens, method here. (swap sauteed shrimp for the white beans if you prefer an animal protein.)

Wednesday: Weeknight arroz con pollo p. 215 from Quicker than Quick + a green salad with red cabbage and radishes and everyday salad dressing #2 (or make the creamy chipotle dressing from the Mexican chopped salad on p. 67)

Thursday: Black bean and beet burgers, carrot salad with avocado

Friday: Lasagna Cupcakes (feel free to add cooked ground beef or turkey or sausage or a meat substitute), served with broccolini sautéed with thinly sliced garlic. I also have this roasted vegetable lasagne.

Saturday brunch: gingerbread pancakes

Sunday (first night of Hanukkah): slow cooker whole roast chicken, onion-braised brisket, maple mustard roasted vegetables, roasted fish, use this method, Moroccan Roasted Carrots with Orange and LATKES! Recipes for skillet latke,  zucchini latkes and Brussels sprouts latkes.  A non-latke option if you get tired of latkes, are these cauliflower fritters. Kale salad with creamy lemon dressing,  homemade applesauce

 

 

Here’s what you can do ahead if it helps you: 

Sunday: 

Make cauliflower-potato topping for shepherd’s pie and cut vegetables for filling

Make salad dressing

Wash greens

Tuesday: 

Season chicken for arroz con pollo

Steam beets, cook brown rice, and cook black beans (if making from scratch) for burgers

Wednesday: 

Assemble black bean and beet burgers

Grate carrots for salad

Friday: 

Make pancake batter and refrigerate covered

 

 

 

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