Week One Menu: June 27th 2019-July 4th 2019

I generally prefer to grocery shop on a week to week basis, loosely planning a vague menu that checks off the breakfast, lunch, and dinner boxes. This is my first week in a new apartment(!) and today was also my first visit to Whole Foods (coincidence? I think not). In my typical fashion, I went through the cookbook I'm working through (which is Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything Basics, and I've been working on it since my last apartment in 2016). Taking one recipe from each section, in proper numerical order (as in, the first of each category), I ended up with a proper shopping list.

I did skip the recipe for popcorn (since I have made it before and I didn't trust Whole Foods kernels to be affordable) and steaks (because I've made them before and they sure as hell weren't affordable-$23 each was the sale price!)

So throughout the week (and maybe bleeding some into next week), I'll be making the following things (in no particular order):

Breakfast

Homemade Oatmeal
Eggs 

Lunch
Tossed Salad w/ Homemade Dressing + Croutons
Gazpacho

Dinners
Pasta Aglio e Olio

Seared Chicken Breast with Boiled Rainbow Chard
Seared Tilapia

Dessert
Brownies

I wasn't given much freedom to cook at my last place, so I'm thrilled to be exploring my passion again (in my spare time as well as at work, I'm a professional cook). 

Stay tuned throughout the week to see how these dishes go, as well as updates from my delightful trip to Seattle earlier in the month. I'll be cooking through my ever-growing collection of cookbooks on this blog, and can't wait to share how the recipes turn out.