Week of November 4

Recipe-palooza this weekend! Lots of new recipes and a few improvisations, and each one worked pretty well.

This picture is one of the improvs: a salad of shredded radicchio, sliced green apple, pomegranate seeds and pistachios. I sprinkled it with red wine vinegar and a little olive oil. Would be quite festive on a holiday table.

On Sunday, I:

• Made potato-leek soup for lunch


• Made polenta-cheese crackers from 101 Cookbooks


• Made David Lebovitz's Chez Panisse Gingersnaps


• Made sweet potato sausage soup a la Bon Appetit a la Smitten Kitchen


• Made King Ranch Chicken casserole from Homesick Texan


• Made a mini ice-cream cake (more to come)


• Made the butternut squash and chickpea salad from Orangette

Phew!

Week Menu
Sunday Lunch with Ann
Potato and leek soup
Radicchio and apple salad
Polenta crackers
Ice cream cake

Sunday Dinner
Grilled flank steak, teriyaki style

Roasted mushrooms and broccoli with sesame
Quinoa
Poached pears with gingersnaps

Monday
Butternut squash salad with chickpeas and tahini dressing
Green salad

Tuesday
Sweet potato sausage soup

Wednesday
King Ranch chicken casserole

Thursday
Mushroom barley soup (freezer)
Green salad

Friday
Pierogies
Green salad