I snuck away to Park City for two days for some fresh air and a change of scenery! I am looking forward to skiing since I didn’t get much in when we were here in December. I do no take a break from the dinner planner though, especially with a few holidays happening! Here’s your dinner planner for the week:
Meatless Monday: White bean harissa stew from Food and Wine (I used 1 TBS. of harissa total and it was plenty spicy); a salad or avocado toast is a nice accompaniment
Tuesday: Wild salmon in parchment from my cookbook and rainbow carrot salad with millet, feta and lemon-yogurt dressing
Valentine’s Day: I always make Chicken pot pie on Valentine’s Day, but some other dinner and dessert options could be a salad with roasted beets cut into hearts, a valentines day snack board, pitaya pancakes for breakfast, flourless chocolate cakes with raspberry sauce or chocolate bundt cake with chocolate ganache
Thursday – Taquitos, homemade guacamole, Mexican sauteed greens
Friday – CHINESE NEW YEAR – See this older post for lots of ideas and information on the significance of food for Chinese New Year. These are some yummy chinese-inspired recipes you could make: Asian turkey lettuce cups, stir-fried ginger beef with shiitake mushrooms, stir fired grass-fed beef with broccoli, sesame spinach salad, green salad with miso-ginger dressing, stir-fried soba noodles with tofu, vegetable fried rice, stir-fried baby bok choy or the Asian grain bowl from my cookbook, Asian slaw, Asian noodle salad or black rice salad with edamame
Saturday lunch – Lemony chickpea soup (this is such a quick and easy soup)
Sunday – Italian fried rice or just empty out the fridge and follow the recipe as a guideline. You can also use riced cauliflower in place of the regular rice. I might add a fried egg to mine and peas for my husband.
Here’s what you can do ahead if you need to:
Sunday
Wash/dry greens and herbs
Make chicken or vegetable stock
Make salad dressings and turmeric yogurt
Soak beans
White bean stew can be made ahead and refrigerated until dinnertime tomorrow night
Cook millet
Toast seeds, store at room temperature
Make pastry for chicken pot pie
Monday
If you didn’t make the stew on Sunday, make sure you start it early in the day so it’s ready for dinner.
Tuesday
Cook chicken for pot pie
Wednesday
Cook chicken for taquitos, if using
Make rice
Make chickpeas unless buying canned
Here’s a link to my previous dinner planners.
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To go with the White Bean Harissa Stew, I served a kale, apple, and sumac onion tabbouleh from Zahav cookbook and The Splendid Table (https://www.splendidtable.org/recipes/kale-apple-walnut-and-sumac-onion-tabbouleh#comments)–they go together really well! I love the middle eastern spices you often incorporate in your cooking, like your brussel sprout tabbouleh which I served at Thanksgiving. Thanks so much, Pamela, for the inspiration!
What a lovely meal. Thank you for the link. I love that book!
Hi Pamela. I recently purchased an Instant Pot and love it. Do you use one and do you have any recipes that you recommend? I have the Melissa Clarke cookbook and an Indian one, which are terrific.
Thanks,
Ruth
I do have one and I have adapted a few recipes on the blog for the Instant Pot. I use it mainly for beans, stock and soups. I am anxious to see the new multicooker cookbook by America’s Test Kitchen which will be out in April.
Can you do a post of easy lunches to make for our kids? I saw the taquito post and love the idea of making extra and using them for lunch the next day – it made me think how much I’d love some suggestions to pep up their lunches. Or even reconstituting certain dinners and turning the leftovers into lunch for the kids. I would also need no nut options unfortunately.
My son literally eats leftovers from dinner in his lunch 4 days a week. Usually Monday’s lunch is a leftover soup from the weekend. I did a blogpost about lunches: https://pamelasalzman.com/mastering-school-lunches/
Had guests this weekend and made your zucchini chocolate cake to have in hand for a particular chocolate lover. He (and the others ) fell in love with the cake and even went on to say it was the best he’d ever had! That’s saying quite a bit from this chocolate lover.
I love your book and rely on it daily. I also am getting terrific ideas from your weekly planner. Hope you have another book in you.
Thanks so much,
Deirdre
PS Oh, forgot to mention I also made your seeded granola . Beyond fabulous. Everyone had it for breakfast every morning and wanted to take it home when they left. I now know what to whip up next time I visit them☺️
Wow! You obviously nailed the cake! Love hearing you had success with the granola, too!