Thursday, June 2, 2011

Week 9 Menu Plan

Purple Carrots in a Basket
Strange but True: Purple Carrots

Featuring purple carrots, broccoli rabe, lettuce, radicchio & strawberries


Wild-caught US Gulf shrimp, a “good alternative” for sustainability according to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, is on sale this week at Safeway.  We decided to have some in a ginger-spiced soup with purple carrots, broccoli, arugula, and spinach. Looks like another stir-fry is on the menu this week as well. Our unexpected bonus of broccoli rabe (rapini) is a welcome addition to “burger night” Wednesday.

Four heads of lettuce mean plenty of salads. Two moderately large heads of radicchio have me in a quandary. To make the usual Sicilian Sauteed Radicchio, find another recipe (we’ve tried many we didn’t like), or to use a little in salads and largely ignore it until next week? Any radicchio ideas out there?

Wednesday
Leftover turkey burgers with homemade catsup
Steamed broccoli rabe with (bottled) oyster sauce

Thursday
Ginger shrimp soup with carrots, broccoli, and greens
Leftover stir-fry veggies
Leftover apricot chicken if needed.

Friday
Leftover apricot chicken
Salad with lettuce, preserved tomatoes and beans, radicchio

Saturday
Lunch: leftovers
Dinner out

Sunday
Lunch or brunch out
Stir-fry with broccoli, carrots, mei qing choi and frozen shitake mushrooms
Salad

Monday
Leftovers
Polish or Harvard beets
Steamed beet greens

Tuesday
Leftovers
Sicilian Sauteed Radicchio or other radicchio recipe



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