Wednesday

Potato, spinach,and kidney bean curry (recipe with proposed changes in the comments)
Cucumber salad
Naan
Greek style nonfat yogurt
Emergency microwave rice (the curry was hotter than planned)

Hot tea
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This is a real flyer. We found a recipe for a spinach and potato curry that was intended to be a side dish, that we added the beans and changed the cooking technique on to make it more of an entree. We love currys and don't have a good spinach and potato one that's good for you. When you take risks, sometimes the outcome isn't what you plan. This was FAR hotter than we anticipated or even like and we had to make some rice to make it tame enough for our palates. This is most impressive as we added the beans to the recipe and didn't add anything spicy! Imagine the original! Anyway, the flavors under the spice are excellent, so the posted recipe is edited to dial down the spice and incorporate our other changes. It was ok tonight, but we think this is actually a real winner. Let us know if you try it!

Prep Notes
Difficulty: Easy
Chopping: Potato, cilantro
Time: 30 minutes (maybe less with our changes)
Make ahead: Yep. I think that would be fine.

Reaction
J: "A good start on a great curry."
M: "This is going to be good."

Thursday

Tuna in red curry sauce (Trader Joe's)
Basmati rice
Steamed snow peas in teriyaki

Shortbread cookies dipped in dark chocolate
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You all know that we don't eat a lot of prepared food, but every once in a while there's an occasion that warrants it. M had a dinner meeting tonight that we didn't know about when we made our grocery list. That left me to either make one of the meals planned to feed both of us or come up with something else. I decided tonight was ripe for one of my favorite convenience products - Trader Joe's line of tuna in curry sauces. This is a pouch with fillets of tuna in yummy, yummy curry. It comes in red, green, and yellow with potatoes and onions. I usually get the red because it's the spiciest and has the least sodium - 380 mg per serving (really quite reasonable for a prepared food). Anyway mixed with some hot rice this is an amazing dinner. I microwaved some snow peas and was good to go.

Prep Notes
Difficulty: Ridiculously easy
Chopping: I did stem the snow peas, but that's totally optional
Time: 20 minutes (only that long to make the rice)
Make ahead: Sure, just re-microwave to warm.

Reaction
J: "Sometimes we all need to find dinner in a little pouch."
M: Didn't get to have one :)