Meatless Monday: kale and white bean minestrone

Tuesday: slow roasted salmon and butternut squash salad with pomegranates and toasted pumpkin seeds

Wednesday: spicy poblano, black bean and quinoa enchiladas – I will use my homemade enchiladas rojas sauce from this recipe

Thursday: one-pot farro with cauliflower and golden raisins, chicken apple sausages

Friday: hashbrown casserole, green salad with everyday salad dressing #2

Saturday: homemade wood fired pizza night at my parents house, Italian white bean and tuna salad with capers from my cookbook, I will use divina slow roasted jarred tomatoes instead of fresh here.

Christmas Eve: We always have dozens of fish dishes, including linguine with clam sauce, baccala, stuffed clams, eel, octopus and more.  Here’s a recipe for whole roasted branzino if you’re in the mood for an easy and elegant fish dish.

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

Sunday

Wash greens and herbs

Make salad dressings

Make chicken or vegetable stock

Cook beans from scratch, if not using canned

Toast pumpkin seeds

Seed pomegranates, try using this amazing 60-second pomegranate de-seeder, or this method

Cut up butternut squash and store in airtight container in the fridge

Make enchilada sauce 

Make quinoa

Wednesday

Prep cauliflower

Cook white beans for salad or buy canned

 

Here’s alink to my previous dinner planners.

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