Planning Ahead - Week of 10/30/2011

The veggies at this week's greenmarket

As you may have heard, the east coast got hit by a freak October snowstorm yesterday. Usually I look forward to the first snowfall of the season like a giddy school girl looking forward to her first school dance. But that's also usually in December! There were nothing but grumbles all around yesterday when the snow hit. And the poor farmers at the market - they looked cold and miserable and all of the produce was covered in snow. Needless to say, we ran through the market as fast as we could, grabbing produce willy nilly. The only plan in mind was the plan to get back to our warm apartment.

When we got home and I surveyed what we bought, we actually did pretty well. Between the left over veggies from last week's meals that never were, we had the makings for a delicious week. Here's what is planned:

Meal 1: Creamy mushrooms with polenta, green salad
Meal 2: Turkey sausage and potato hash, collard greens
Meal 3: Butternut squash soup, cabbage salad
Meal 4: Cauliflower in a tomato sauce, polenta, green salad
Meal 5: White rice with onions, cabbage salad

I'm determined to stick to the plan this week, so check in next Sunday and see how we did.

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