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For those of you hosting a Super Bowl party and making guacamole, don’t forget to buy your hard avocados on Tuesday or Wednesday and refrigerate once they are perfect. Here’s your dinner planner for the week:

 

Meatless Monday: How about an all veggie dinner? Try the Hasselback Sweet Potatoes. While you’re roasting the sweet potatoes, on a sheet pan roast sliced red onion, broccoli and kale, tossed in olive oil and sea salt, to roast as well. Let the veggies get crisp in the oven and when ready squeeze some lemon juice and drizzle tahini on top or make this lemon-tahini sauce.

Tuesday: simple slow roasted salmon, method here, Quinoa with Toasted Coconut and Lime served with mixed greens tossed with miso-ginger dressing

Wednesday:  Baked Asian Turkey Meatballs, black rice (aka forbidden rice) and Asian slaw.

Thursday: Spring salad with oranges, radish, avocado and pumpkin seed brittle (this could be a full meal if you wanted to add some cooked quinoa and/or feta cheese to the salad), naan pizzas with spinach sauteed in garlic and red pepper flakes and topped with kite hill ricotta cheese

Friday: moroccan chicken with dates, couscous with dried apricots and herbs

Saturday brunch: Olive bar chickpea salad p. 54 from Quicker than Quick

Superbowl Sunday: French Bread Pizzas, Taco pizzas, or Mini carrot dogs in a blanket + Here are some of my other favorite options:

• CHILI!!! Turkey and Black Bean Chili, Vegetable Chili, Slow Cooker Sweet Potato and Black Bean Chili, + Chipotle Turkey Chili in Kitchen Matters and Instant Pot Chicken Chili Verde in QTQ, Cornbread,
• Baked Potato and topping bar, Mexican Chopped Salad
• Meatball subs, homemade pizzas, Vegetarian Antipasto Chopped Salad, Mini Lasagne Cupcakes, Italian 7-layer dip
• Taco bar (Ground Beef/Turkey/Tempeh, Slow Cooker Beef Barbacoa, Slow Cooker Chicken, and Fish), Refried beans, Cilantro-Lime Slaw, Arroz Verde

I generally make Guacamole and Baked Tortilla Chips,  plus jicama cut into thin “chips,” “Vegan Queso” IS A MUST with chips and baked sweet potato rounds, crudités with Hummus.  I have also done sliders/mini burgers, Mini Chicken Tostadas, Roasted Baby Potatoes with Broccoli and Cheese, Spinach and Artichoke Dip.

 

 

Here’s what you can do in advance if it helps you: 

Sunday: 

Roast hasselback sweet potatoes

Cook quinoa 

Make miso-ginger dressing

Wash greens

Monday: 

Cook black rice

Tuesday: 

Make meatball mixture 

Wednesday: 

Make pumpkin seed brittle if using for salad

Thursday: 

You can make the Moroccan chicken today and reheat tomorrow if it’s easier to have it made in advance or use the slow cooker method. 

Saturday: 

For Super Bowl, you can cook carrots and marinate for carrot dogs, make vegan queso and reheat tomorrow, wash greens, make salad dressings, and/or cook beans for chili if making from scratch. 

 

 

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