menus for Sept. 2 to 9

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a shocking lack of interesting veg on sale at Kroger, but we all have the last of summer's corn on the cob at pretty spectacular prices, so I'm giving corn alot of attention this week. Well (deep breath) let's dive in- I've no idea if these links will successfully (that means easily) get you to the recipies, but you all will be helping me learn about linking and hyperlinking as we go, yes?


Fri: There's a little ground lamb that needs to find it's way out of the freezer, so we're starting with meatballs and tomato cucumber salad . Use Alton Brown's recipe with rice,
http://projects.eveningedge.com/recipes/baked-mini-muffin-pan-meatballs/
or (and this looks a little more interesting, so you can guess which one I'm leaning toward..) real simple's with couscous
http://www.realsimple.com/food-recipes/browse-all-recipes/lamb-meatballs-couscous-feta-00000000041500/index.html


Sat: I'm cranking up the oven and roasting a real slab-o-beef for the first time since the thermometer first topped 100 degrees  63 days ago!
roast eye of round with green beans

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/high-temperature-eye-of-round-roast/detail.aspx

okay, this is one of the best roast beef recipes ever, but I've only used it successfully on eye of round, which is on sale at Costco here, and at HT in Charlotte. it's super easy, but does require a little planning. the entire cook time is about 3 1/2 hours, so i usually save it for a weekend, when I'm home at about 3 to put it in the oven. Once the high temp cooktime is over though, you can leave the house and forget it till dinner time. slice it as thinly as you can (yay for electric knives and/or people who don't mind wielding the nonelectric kind) and ziploc (i just made a new verb!) the leftovers, you'll use them twice this week

I'm going to use frozen italian green beans. I'll saute some garlic in olive oil, then toss in the beans, some salt and pepper, and call it done. totally missing carbs here- I might pick up a loaf of some sort of nice bread if it's on sale.

Sun: Let's follow the recipe for grilled lemon chicken, but not turn it into a salad til Tuesday night.

 http://www.realsimple.com/food-recipes/recipe-collections-favorites/popular-ingredients/corn-recipes-00100000064983/page2.html

tonight, I'm going to serve the chicken breast, corn on the cob, and a bag of shredded broccoli salad with ranch dressing. Since the grill's fired up though, cook extra chicken and corn for tuesday.***

Mon: warm up slivers of the sliced roast beef for burritos. put those together with your fave salsa, or if you have time, use last night's grilled corn for this yummy looking stuff  

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/michael-chiarello/grilled-corn-salsa-recipe/index.html
the recipe calls for basil, but substitute cilantro if it's cheaper.


Tues:  use the leftover chicken & the rest of the leftover corn for the lemon chicken salad


Wed: the last of the beef gets slivered up and turned into a stirfry- the beef is cooked, so it really just needs to jump into a sizzling hot pan long enough to scare it and get a tiny bit coated with stirfry sauce (if you've found a bottled one you like, use it, or tell me and I'll post a recipe for America's Test Kitchen teriaki sauce) after the meat's left the pan, and the pan's heated up again, throw in the veg. I'm going to use onions, mushrooms and the rest of the bag of broccoli salad from Sunday.


Thurs: according to google, today as I sat in sweltering Dallas, it was 77 autumnal degrees in NC. Let's give a nod to that craziness with a fallish corn chowder and summery bacon sandwiches. (bacon!!!)

http://www.reluctantgourmet.com/corn_chowder_recipe.htm
this recipe feeds about 6, so i'll be cutting it in half. It looks long, but I chose it because I like the technique of grating some of the corn and cutting the rest off the cob. It makes a better soup. use half and half or evaporated milk instead of the cream and save some calories if you wish.

Fri: the cheese stuffed chicken breast fell off the roster here, but got some enthusiastic reviews,so I'm resolved to try it, probably with a bagged salad.

http://family.go.com/food/recipe-ew-631001-chicken-stuffed-with-golden-onions---fontina-t/

I've tried to put a chatter-free, printer-friendly list of the daily menus and the week's grocery list on a separate page (it landed in the top right corner, over Thalia's head) hope that makes shopping easier.