Weeknight recipes from Keepers

It's Sunday, early afternoon. My husband, Eric, is out of the house and I need to get organized for the coming week. Right now in my fridge I've got snow peas, carrots, cauliflower, broccoli, leeks and radishes. I also have butternut squash and sweet potatoes in the pantry. This past week was crazy-busy at work, and I'm behind in using my veggies from the last Farmhouse delivery.

One of my relatively new cookbooks is Keepers. It made Susie Chang's list of top 10 cookbooks for 2013. You can read more about the rating on her app. I've had it a couple months, but I've only cooked one recipe from it. I made the Crustless Broccoli and Cheddar Quiche when I was looking for broccoli recipes last month. It turned out very tasty. After a quick check on Eat Your Books for recipes with snow peas, my search revealed Paper-thin Beef with Snow Peas, from Keepers. I've already got everything I need for the recipe, except the flank steak. When I showed the photo to Eric this morning, he was immediately enthusiastic.

Thumbing through the book, I see a recipe for Roasted Chicken Breasts with Sweet Potatoes. I have a ton of sweet potatoes in the pantry. I definitely need to use some of those sweet potatoes. But as I'm thinking about it, it's probably more important to find something for the fresh veggies in my fridge. So, back to the website Eat Your Books to focus my search. I'm limiting my search to just this book, for simplicity.

Chicken and Root Vegetable Dinner in a Pot sounds good. It uses carrots, leeks, and Yukon Gold potatoes (but I'll substitute sweet potatoes). Perfect. I'm also seeing recipes for Roasted Cauliflower Dressed Up and Parmesan Broccoli. Nothing revolutionary, but a slightly new twist on the usual preparation. As Chang writes in her review on her app, "...what these recipes may lack in newness, they make up for in shortcuts, tips, and sheer practicality." Nothing wrong with that.

My list for the grocery store is: flank steak, chicken parts, and another protein TBD, as well as a shallot, garlic and a small wedge of parmesan. It's a gorgeous sunny day outside, so just need to get my shoes on for a walk to Whole Foods.

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Keepers