Week of April 22

Yay! Spring appears to be here! We spent the better part of the last two days outside, reveling in temps in the low-seventies and sunny skies. Ah ...

In honor of these two glorious days, I was inspired to tackle two food items I have been eyeing out there in foodie-blogland. One is a seared gnocchi salad, first seen on 101 Cookbooks, then spotted on Smitten Kitchen. SK also gave us all a recipe for gnocchi, which I have to say worked fantastically well. Brava, no cursing! Second is the Salted Butter Caramel Ice Cream on David Lebovitz's blog. David writes really great cookbooks, blogs about Paris and food and food in Paris and also leads very informative tours of a Parisian market (lots of fun, look him up if you visit the city of lights anytime soon).

All items made on Sunday are noted with an *, anything pulled from cold storage has an (f).

Sunday
Dinner
Seared gnocchi salad with green beans, fennel and shallots - sherry vinaigrette *
Salted Butter Caramel Ice Cream *

Monday
Lunch
Barley salad with celery, sun dried and cherry tomatoes, parsley and feta *
Hard boiled eggs with mustard *

Dinner
Grilled steak tacos with tomato salsa
Black bean salad *

Tuesday
Lunch
Sunday leftovers (I hope - we'll see how the salad holds)

Dinner
Thai red curry shrimp
Jasmine rice (trying out my new rice cooker!)
Cucumber salad

Wednesday
Lunch
Taco salads, made with leftovers from Monday

Dinner
Grain salad *
Deviled eggs >:-)

Thursday
Lunch
Tuesday leftovers

Dinner
Grilled cheese sandwich
Green bean soup (f)

Friday
Lunch
On your own

Dinner
Chinese dumplings from Wang's in Somerville, MA (f)
Cucumber salad