Pop Corn and Margaritas

Let's admit it, doesn't that sound good?

I'm trying to plan a menu for the week. I'm looking at things I have fixed, asking myself "What sounds good?"

Coq au vin and Cassoulet both sound too heavy for the heat of summer. Seafood-stuffed manicotti? Chicken fried steak? Both are possibilities, although the manicotti IS a lot of work.

What if, instead of buying the manicotti pasta, I make crepes? Haven't done THAT in a good many years. But if I make a full recipe of crepes, then I can put other things in them for another meal---chicken in a light sauce, maybe?

Mac & cheese (actually rigatoni in a fontina sauce with prosciutto and mushrooms)? That has the advantage of tasting even better a day or two later.

I'm making myself hungry. Microwave popcorn and pre-made margarita. I'm set!

So, I open my cook book of main dishes --I place recipes I cut out of magazines and newspapers in a loose-leaf binder-- and there is an estouffade bernaise. I've never made that. Reading through, it looks DELICIOUS!! and also a very WINTER dish. That one will wait.

An EASY chicken cacciatore -- haven't made that in YEARS!! Flag that for a meal!

Looking at fish dishes. Crab and asparagus bread pudding (agin, might be a winter dish) and one called "Pasta with Mushrooms and Scallops" A variation on scampi! Uses cream in the sauce....FLAG THAT!!

Well, I've got my menu started -- Chicken fried steak with mashed potatoes and peas; Chicken cacciatore with pasta and a salad; Tuscan steak with creamed spinach (fairly easy, just sounds complicated)(add a tossed salad to this too); Pasta with mushrooms and scallops (and a salad); I may just add in Burritos for two reasons - 1. they're EASY.
2. George LOVES them.

And if I golf Tuesday, and George and I golf Friday, those two nights I don't have to fix dinner!

OK, who is coming over which nights for dinner??