Menu & Grocery List for 12/7-12/13

I’m focusing on vegetables this week, I think we’ve been a little short on them in our diet lately.

Veselka’s Cabbage Soup: it’s funny Veselka’s should show up again–I mentioned it offhandedly in my post about beets, and then I noticed today this recipe was featured at the Smitten Kitchen, and just when I was really wanting to make something with cabbage too. Veselka’s is a Ukrainian restaurant that was close to my dorm at NYU. I think I ordered pirogies and/or borscht every time we went though, so I never tried this soup.

Multi-grain Pasta with Sicilian Salsa Verde, Cabbage, and Haricots Verts

Stir-fried Cauliflower with Ginger and Oyster Sauce (from How to Cook Everything): we’ll add tofu to this and eat it over rice, of course.

Swiss Chard Gratin: this kind of seems like it will need something else with it, but I’m not sure what.

Corn & potato chowder: no recipe here, just a basic potato soup with some corn we have in the freezer

Grocery list:
milk
1/2 & 1/2 (will use for heavy cream)
gruyere
Parmesan

tofu
pork (will probably substitute ground for the pork butt)

cabbage
savoy cabbage
Swiss chard
spinach
onions
garlic
green beans
parsley, other herbs?
cauliflower

whole wheat pasta
bread (enough to make bread crumbs too)

capers
sauerkraut

Pantry Items: potatoes, carrots, celery, green onions, corn, ginger, stock, anchovies (!), rice, butter, spices