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The Week · Provisioning Manifest

The Garlic and Lemon Week

One head of garlic, two lemons, and a bunch of parsley anchor all four dinners this week — mince, zest, and chop everything Sunday so weeknights are just cooking, not prepping. Cabbage and apples get their moment in the pork skillet, scallions perk up the shrimp, and the rest of the crisper (green beans, cucumber, fennel) rotates through as sides. Buy Saturday, prep Sunday, ~15 minutes a night from there.

The four dinners

A skillet of shrimp and creamy grits with scallions

Entrée

Shrimp and Grits

Creamy stone-ground grits under garlicky shrimp. A Southern classic, weeknight-sized.

Whole plate — entrée + sides

Active28 min
Dishes3
Per serving$5.80

Sides — swap freely

Buy Saturday · One List

Shopping list

The 4 flagged items below are the shared perishables the whole week is built around — buy them once, use them across several dinners, waste none.

Produce

3 clove + 14 clovesgarlicshared ×6
4 tbspflat-leaf parsleyshared ×2
0.5 whole + 1 eachlemonshared ×2
3 tbsplemon juice
0.25 bunchparsley
10 ozspinach
1yellow onion
0.5 headgreen cabbage
2apples (Honeycrisp or Gala)
1.5 lbbaby potatoes
1 lbcarrots
1 lbgreen beans
1 wholelime
0.25 bunchcilantro
1 wholefennel bulb
2 wholeorange
0.25 wholered onion
0.25 bunchscallions
1 bunchbroccolini

Meat & Fish

1.5 lbturkey breast cutlets
4bone-in pork chops (about 6 oz each)
4 eachbone-in, skin-on chicken thighs
1.25 lbshrimp

Dairy

4 tbspunsalted buttershared ×2
4 tbspbutter

Pantry

2 tbspcapers
1 cupunsweetened apple cider
0.33 cupsliced almonds
1 cupstone-ground grits
3 cupchicken or vegetable broth
Check your shelf — staples you likely have
  • olive oil
  • kosher salt
  • black pepper
  • chicken stock
  • dried oregano
  • couscous
  • red chili flakes
  • dried thyme
  • apple cider vinegar
  • rice vinegar
  • sugar
  • cumin
  • red pepper flakes
  • jasmine rice
  • chili flakes

Prep Sunday · ~40 min

Prep plan

Do these once, together, on Sunday. Then weeknight cooking is just heat, sear, and finish.

  1. Turkey breast cutlets — patted dryfor Pan-Seared Greek Turkey Cutlets, Lemon-Oregano Pan Sauce
  2. Black pepper — groundfor Pan-Seared Greek Turkey Cutlets, Lemon-Oregano Pan Sauce
  3. Garlic — mincedfor Pan-Seared Greek Turkey Cutlets, Lemon-Oregano Pan Sauce
  4. Lemon juice — fresh squeezedfor Pan-Seared Greek Turkey Cutlets, Lemon-Oregano Pan Sauce
  5. Capers — drainedfor Pan-Seared Greek Turkey Cutlets, Lemon-Oregano Pan Sauce
  6. Unsalted butter — cold, cubedfor Pan-Seared Greek Turkey Cutlets, Lemon-Oregano Pan Sauce
  7. Flat-leaf parsley — choppedfor Pan-Seared Greek Turkey Cutlets, Lemon-Oregano Pan Sauce
  8. Bone-in pork chops (about 6 oz each) — patted dryfor Seared Pork Chops, Cider-Braised Cabbage and Apples
  9. Black pepper — freshly groundfor Seared Pork Chops, Cider-Braised Cabbage and Apples
  10. Yellow onion — thinly slicedfor Seared Pork Chops, Cider-Braised Cabbage and Apples
  11. Green cabbage — thinly slicedfor Seared Pork Chops, Cider-Braised Cabbage and Apples
  12. Apples (Honeycrisp or Gala) — cored and sliced into wedgesfor Seared Pork Chops, Cider-Braised Cabbage and Apples
  13. Garlic — mincedfor Seared Pork Chops, Cider-Braised Cabbage and Apples
  14. Baby potatoes — Boil Sunday; smash-and-roast day-of in 15 min.for Lemony Smashed Potatoes
  15. Carrots — Batons; pack into the brine Sunday. Keeps all week.for Quick-Pickled Carrots
  16. Bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs — patted dryfor Skillet Chicken Thighs, Charred Green Beans and Almonds
  17. Green beans — trimmedfor Skillet Chicken Thighs, Charred Green Beans and Almonds
  18. Garlic — thinly slicedfor Skillet Chicken Thighs, Charred Green Beans and Almonds
  19. Lemon — juiced and zestedfor Skillet Chicken Thighs, Charred Green Beans and Almonds
  20. Black pepper — freshly groundfor Skillet Chicken Thighs, Charred Green Beans and Almonds
  21. Flat-leaf parsley — choppedfor Skillet Chicken Thighs, Charred Green Beans and Almonds
  22. Shrimp — Peeled and deveined.for Shrimp and Grits