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It's been a busy week and the numerous posts in my head never made their way to the keyboard. How did we do with our weekly menu though? Actually pretty well.

Usually our biggest challenge is Monday night - that's the night we have our French class and we don't get home until 8:30. At that point, the last thing we want to do is cook. I kept that in mind when I planned out the week, and planned the pork chops for dinner that night. Firstly, it was a super quick and easy meal (I think dinner was on the table within 45 minutes of getting home) and secondly, how can you not look forward to pork chops for dinner?

The only night we missed was Thursday. I ended up going out for dinner for a friend's birthday so we skipped it (and since I had way too much wine that night, the next day called for greasy fried chicken. I did say that I would confess when I gave into a craving for Wendy's spicy chicken sandwich....).

Meal 1: Red lentil bake, radish and corn salad, green salad
This was really good! I used the recipe from Everyday Vegetarian. The only change I made was to sauté the onions before adding the lentils and stock. If you are new to lentils, I highly recommend this recipe. The radish and corn salad was delicious as well....recipe to follow soon!

Meal 2: Pork chops, spinach and beet greens, orzo with butter
Pork chops. Do I really need to say anything else?

Meal 3: Beets with tahini, rice with red onion, green salad
The beets were inspired by this kitchn.com post and were completely underwhelming. The rice with onion is from Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything. Craig added some fried leeks to the top, it was so good. This has quickly become our new favorite way to eat white rice.

Meal 4: Fennel and celery soup, wild rice salad
This may have been my favorite meal of the week! Both the soup and salad hit the spot perfectly. The wild rice salad recipe to follow soon.....

Meal 5: Polenta with turkey sausage in tomato sauce, green salad
And finally, the meal that wasn't.

Stay tuned to see what we have planned for next week!



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