Wednesday – I put together a fast pizza with refrigerated whole wheat pizza dough, a can of Cento pizza sauce and 6 oz. of shredded mozzerella. It doesn’t get easier than that. Freddie wasn’t home in time for dinner and I wanted something easy. Plus, I was in the mood for pizza. Wegman’s pizza dough, once warmed to room temperature (which is a must) easily covers an entire 11×17″ baking sheet. Topped with the entire can of sauce and the cheese it is somewhat more like Sicilian pizza, but it is soooo good. Everybody loved this and Freddie polished off the leftovers when he got home. Some fruit for dessert and we were all set.
Thursday - I made the girls Amy’s veggie burgers (the best frozen brand I have found), sweet potato fries and grape tomatoes, with plenty of ketchup and mustard for dipping. I used Sandra Lee’s recipe for Sweet Potato Fries from the Food Network because I had recently seen her make them and the recipe is online. Having a laptop in the kitchen is so handy! Freddie and I were headed out to see “Coco Before Chanel” and wanted to leave room for popcorn, so I wrapped each of us a veggie burger in a whole wheat tortilla for a light supper. They hit the spot.
Friday – For some reason I feel compelled to celebrate the arrival of the weekend with dinner. I prepared Eggplant and Portobello Schnitzel with Lemon-Caper Sauce from Vegetarian Times because it always feels kind of special. The veggies are dipped in egg and milk and then Italian seasoned breadcrumbs and oven-fried. Topped with the Lemon-Caper sauce, they are quite special. The girls steered clear of the sauce and the eggplant, but loved the mushrooms. This dish needs a nice starch on the side to make you really feel like you are living it up, so I kept with the Austrian theme and made spaetzle. As the weather gets colder my thoughts, of course, always turn to spaetzle and I love the recipe for Herbed Spaetzle from Williams-Sonoma. The herbs are chives and parsley, which make nice specks of green in the little dumplings. The girls aren’t big on green food, but they gobbled up the spaetzle anyway and asked for seconds and thirds. Freddie ate so much he got a stomachache.
Ah, the weekend…
