Dinner Planner: Week of August 15th

I’m not cooking most of this week since we’ll be moving both my daughters into their dorm room and apartment, respectively. Although I will likely help my older daughter stock her freezer with cooked grains, smoothie packets, maybe a soup or two and, of course, cookie dough! Let’s hope my cooking lessons this summer sank in. I’ll share whatever I can on Instagram Stories, so pop in from time to time to see what we’re up to. In the meantime, I know you have to cook, so I put together a great dinner planner for you this week!

Meatless Monday: Baked falafel salad with lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, pickled beets and radishes, pita chips

Tuesday: Slow roasted salmon or poached salmon (skip the salsa/sauce,) charred corn salad, sauteed shishito peppers

Wednesday: Quesadillas with last night’s leftovers (corn salad and shishitos will be great in a quesadilla), gazpacho (I know I included this in a dinner planner a month ago, but it’s so perfect for this week!)

Thursday: Zucchini noodle spaghetti with white beans and tomatoes from yummymummy.com (you can add cooked shrimp or grilled chicken to this)

Friday: Roasted beet and burrata salad with mint, poached chicken with chimichurri (make extra chicken for Saturday’s curried chicken salad)

Saturday lunch: chicken curry salad lettuce wraps

Sunday: Italian potato salad, grilled halibut with lemon

Here’s what you can do ahead if you need to:

Sunday

Start soaking chickpeas

Make falafel mixture at end of day or Monday morning

Wash lettuces

Pickle beets and/or radishes

Make tahini sauce

Make dressing for corn salad