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When summer is finally ever present and all around, I find myself craving sweet peppers, ripe tomatoes and cucumbers, which leads me want to decorate them with feta + kalamatas. In other words… Let’s go Greek this week! Or at least it will be the inspiration for all sorts of goodness in our meal plan.
Big salads, baby! That is the way summer keeps me cruising through piles of veggies. Start with the Chunky Cucumber + Tomato Salad as an easy side dish. Make a crazy big batch. Then for the next dinner, add kalamatas and feta to make it a Greek Salad perfect for pairing with Grilled Kale + Grilled Potato Chips. Next, cook up pasta and fold it into the Greek Pasta Salad for easy lunches on the go. It is an evolving dinner that will make life easy throughout this week. Add more veggies as needed, too.
Two other salads, which are perfectly make-ahead-able, are the Eggplant Caponata and the Zucchini Marinated Salad.
The Sweet Pepper Coulis is one sauce with at least three applications this week. As bell peppers slowly fill the market, stock up, roast or grill them into goodness, peel and blend into an utterly simple sauce that is perfect for the Fresh Herb Grilled Chicken, Grilled Trout and/or Parmesan Grilled Eggplant. Plan on at least one bell pepper per three people. So, if you are making a huge batch of the sauce multiple according to the number of dishes and servings for the week.
The Sweet Pepper Coulis would even be nice dolloped on the Squash Blossom Scramble for breakfast.
Peaches and squash are starting to fill my market baskets as well. And they are great meal buddies, too! Shredded squash is lightly combined and seared into Summer Squash Pancakes with Herb Stuffed Peaches that are easy in the oven or on the grill. Pair these two with a beautiful Beet, Peach & Kale Slaw.
Grill up extra chicken and chop it into the Blueberry Chicken Salad to accompany a side of the Beet, Peach & Kale Slaw for lunch on the go.
Those Herb Stuffed Peaches are also lovely for breakfast especially with a slice of the Zucchini Chocolate Chip Bread.
Cook seasonally. Eat consciously. Live well,
