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I was checking the fridge in preparation for grocery shopping, and discovered a package of pork chops with a sell-by date of last Wednesday. Then I remembered buying them last weekend and intending to make pork chops with red potatoes. How embarrassing to be that out-of-touch with what's in my fridge - but this is exactly the kind of mistake I'm prone to making when I'm stressed and busy.

So here is our meal plan for the upcoming week, in black and white so I don't forget to cook anything:

• Sunday: Smoked Gouda-stuffed hamburgers. And sugar snap peas, which were also hanging around the fridge hoping in vain that I'd remember having them.


• Monday: Pork chops with red potatoes and roasted red peppers. From a new package of pork chops, not the one that expired last Wednesday.


• Tuesday: Steak, to celebrate the job interview Michael has at Johns Hopkins that day.


• Wednesday: Sesame apricot chicken with rice, from Let's Dish.


• Thursday: Mexican pork wraps from Let's Dish - slow-cooked pork wrapped in tortillas.


• Friday: Smoked salmon and asparagus pasta. They had gorgeous cracked-pepper-crusted smoked sockeye at Safeway. (Say that three times fast.)


• Saturday: Chicken breasts. Maybe in a sherry sauce - I haven't done that in a while. I should've written down the directions for it when we were eating it once a week, because my memories of how to put the sauce together are kind of hazy. I think it had chicken broth and sherry and lemon juice and pepper and capers, but was that it?