Penne with pork sausage and kale. 2/6/26

Whole grain penne with spicy pork sausage and kale

🥳 I love this delicious pasta!

Ingredients for two servings – 6 to 8 oz. whole grain penne, 1/2 onion, chopped, 3 garlic cloves, minced, 4 oz. spicy pork sausage removed from casing.

Steps – heat boiling salted water and cook penne according to box directions. While water is heating and penne is cooking sauté onion and garlic in olive oil. When onion is translucent add the pork sausage. Break sausage apart while cooking. Cook until the sausage is no longer pink.

Reserve a cup of pasta water and then strain the pasta with a colander. Add a couple of handfuls of chopped kale to the sausage mixture and also a half cup of the reserved pasta water. Put the penne into the sausage mixture and stir it around. Add the rest of the reserved water if it looks dry.

Garnish with olive oil and Parmesan.

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Shrimp tacos 2/4/26 and Chicken dinner 2/5/26

I seem to be running behind so here is another “two fer,”

Delicious shrimp tacos with avocado, salsa, mango, and spicy beans. 2/4/26

Chicken dinner. 2/5/26

Rotisserie chicken and mashed potatoes with gravy with broccoli

Our classic chicken dinner is always a family favorite.

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Sarah’s chili with black beans 2/2/26

Chili with black beans

😊 Delicious chili made with Muir Glen chili starter.

2/3/26 Pizza

Did not feel like cooking and ordered pizza delivery instead.

Sausage pizza delivered to our door

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Weekly Menu. February 2 – 8, 2026

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Grilled steak and potato with salad. 1/31/26

Grilled steak and potato with salad

☹️ Disappointing, steak was full of gristle

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Lentils with turkey sausage. 1/30/26

Lentils with turkey sausage, carrots, celery, and onions

Enjoyable for dinner and there are leftovers for lunch.

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Asian salmon bowl. 1/29/26

Asian salmon bowl – salmon, rice, cabbage, avocado, cucumber, lime, Fresno chile, edamame, soy-ginger sauce

👍 Delicious!

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Rao’s eggplant parmesan. 1/28/26

Rao’s eggplant parmesan

The jury is still out on this frozen entree. It came in a two pack from Costco so we will at least have another chance to evaluate it. We used the microwave method which was 10 minutes at full power and 10 minutes on half power leaving the plastic film attached during both cookings. Sauce was good but the eggplant was covered with mushy bread crumbs. We will cook the other eggplant Parmesan in a conventional oven before rendering judgement.

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Grilled loin lamb chop and sweet potato with broccoli 1/27/26

Grilled loin lamb chop with sweet potato and broccoli

Everyone at our house loves lamb. The Australian loin lamb chops at Costco are not too expensive and are great on the grill. We had a package of five so John and Sarah got two each and I had one, but it was the biggest one! We gnawed them all down to the bone

After microwaving a halved sweet potato John also got some char on it from the grill. It was really good. I sautéed the broccoli in a pan with a little olive oil to complete our dinner.

If you think you do not like lamb you should try it again cooked on the grill.

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Braised chickpeas and zucchini. 1/26/26

Braised chickpeas and zucchini

Sarah’s night for making dinner and she chose a dish that she made about a year and a half ago. It is her take on a Smitten Kitchen recipe.

John liked it a lot but I found it kind of soupy. I would have preferred the burrata not to be stirred in. I think burrata is so luscious and it loses its character when just mixed in. She also included some sausage which was yummy.

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