CSA Meals 2013: Week 7

 Zucchini, potatoes, salad mix, green beans, mushrooms, beets, spinach, eggs, and my dear mother and grandmother selected Lemon Lavender Pound Cake instead of bread. O woe.

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Rum sauce for lemon-lavender pound cake 
Rum
Cream
Bit of brown sugar
Bit of flour

Heat the cream and rum, stir in brown sugar. Sprinkle flour into cream and stir well. Heat gently until a bit thickened.

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Pickled Beets'n'Onions
Boil beets until easily pierced with a fork. Slice into small chunks.

Add sliced onion, sliced beets to the pickling cabbage (from last weeks).

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Lazy Paneer
Milk
Vinegar

Pour milk into microwave safe bowl. Add 1 tsp vinegar per cup of milk. Heat. Stir. Spoon curds into strainer.  Drain more time for firmer curds, less time for more spreadable curds.

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GreenProtein Sauce
Bacon fat
Garlic
Beet greens
Spinach
Almonds
Balsamic
Cannellini beans
Olive oil
Water as needed for blending



Melt bacon fat in large pot, add garlic. Add beet greens and spinach and scoot them around until wilty. Combine everything in blender.

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Beet Stem Stirfry
Green beans
Beet stems
Hardboiled egg
Mushroom
Pickled napa cabbage (from previous weeks)
Peanut oil

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Garlicky Green Beans
Green beans
Garlic
Manzanilla olives
Peanut oil

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Lazy meal: soba noodles with peanut sauce
Peanut butter
Fish sauce
Soy sauce
Lime juice
Ginger powder
Brown sugar

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Coupla Stirfry meals
Sweet potato, onion, what the heck else; with ripped up salad greens and bean thread noodles. I MADE THIS BOWL.

Peas, corn, bell pepper, carrot, mushroom, zucchini, pickled cabbage; with meatballs, ripped up salad greens, and rice vermicelli noodles. I LOVE THIS BOWL.

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 helping!

CSA Meals 2013: Week 5

Chard, apples, onions, oranges, mushrooms, sweet potatoes, sugar snap peas, parmesan sourdough, eggs.

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Mildly Green Meatballs
~ 2lbs ground beef
2 eggs
Several dashes of Worcestershire sauce
Couple handfuls of spinach, wilted in the microwave and lightly blendered
Many shakes of parmesan

Combine all ingredients and form into meatballs. Bake at 350 for 20 minutes or until cooked through.
Word to the wise: if you purchase fattier meat, because it on sale, bake these in a dish with sides. Cleaning rendered fat off of an oven heating element is No Fun.

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Wine fruit sauce
Wine
Oranges
Tangerines
Apricots

Cut peel off of oranges and tangerine, slices into chunks. Add oranges, tangerines, and apricots to wine and stew until chunks are falling apart. Wand blend into a sauce.
We ate this on an unsweetened sweet potato pie.

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Green sauce
bacon fat
chard
spinach
parmesan

Wilt spinach and chard in bacon fat. Wand blend. Add parmesan to taste.

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Red sauce
Tomato
Olive oil
Rosemary
Thyme
Garlic
White wine

Combine all and simmer until tomatoes all apart. Wand blend.

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Stop and Start Shepherd's Pies
Start pie:
Green sauce
Onions, carmelized by cooking in oil for awhile
Parsnip, fried in peanut oil until tasty
Zucchini & mushroom, sliced and cooked in peanut oil until softish
Turkey, shredded
Mashed potatoes

Stop pie:
Red sauce
Onions, carmelized
Celery, lightly sauteed in peanut oil
Peas, frozen
Turkey, shredded
Mashed potatoes

For each pie, layer in a pie crust (or a pie pan) in order of ingredients. Smoosh mashed potatoes in a general layer on the top to sort of .. seal it. I covered each with saran wrap, then a bag, and froze.

Bake ~30min at 350 or until mashed potato tips turn brown and pie is heated through.

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Corn dog muffins
1 c white whole wheat flour
1 c cornmeal
2 eggs
Blob of honey
1/2 c olive oil
1 c milk +1 tsp vinegar (let sit for a few minutes before adding)
Small slices of cheese
Hot dogs cut into rounds

Mix everything but the cheese and hot dogs. Fill muffin cups halfway, then drop hot dog slices and a slice of cheese on top of the batter, then cover with more batter. Bake at 375 for 24 minutes.


Grapefruit paneer muffins
Grapefruit (zest, some pulp, juice)
Paneer (from 4 c whole milk + 4 tbsp vinegar + 4 min in microwave)
1/2 c olive oil
1/2 c applesauce
2 c www flour
2 eggs
3/4 tsp baking soda
3/4 tsp salt
Vanilla

Combine all ingredients and spoon into muffin cups. Bake at 350 for 24 minutes or until knife comes out clean.

Muffin tins, bake at 350 20-24 min

CSA Meals 2013: Week 4

Spinach, kohlrabi, potatoes, brussels sprouts, grapefruit, bean sprouts, parsnips, garlic, rosemary lavender bread, and colby jack cheese.

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Sweet Potato Pie II: The Revenge of Sweet Potato Pie
Medium sweet potato
3 eggs
3/4 c Condensed milk
Looots of vanilla
< 1/4 c brown sugar
Graham cracker crust

Wand blend all ingredients, pour into crust. Bake at 350 for 40 min or until no longer jiggly.

Smoother, but I liked the bit of orange in the last one. Will try another this week.

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Pickled cabbage
Shredded napa cabbage
Salt
Brown sugar
Candied ginger chunks
Apple cider vinegar

Pack cabbage into a large glass jar, wedging a few candied ginger chunks in as well. Pour in salt and sugar, fill with apple cider vinegar. I didn't have quite enough vinegar, so I topped it off with some tea. Stick in fridge, wait a few days, sampling occasionally.

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Root veggie shin stew (crock pot)
Beef shin
Parsnip
Kohlrabi
Cabbage
Tomato
Olive oil
Garlic
Balsamic vinegar
Dash of soy sauce

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Spinach Potato Cakes
Bacon fat
Onion, finely sliced
Garlic
Coarsely chopped spinach, steamed until wilted and sad
Potato, mostly mashed
Mozzarella
Cornmeal or bread crumbs

Combine onion, garlic, spinach, potato, and mozzarella. Mix well. Form into patties, coat with cornmeal/bread crumbs, and fry in bacon fat.

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Root Soop
Cabbage, shredded
Parsnip, sliced small
Kohlrabi, sliced small
Potato, cubed
Onion, sliced small
Garlic, couple of cloves
Lentils, ~1-2c
Rosemary
Thyme
Mustard
Dill (by mistake, I thought it was the rosemary jar)
Butter, 1 knob

Boil the potatoes in water, then plopped remainder of ingredients into water. Boil until suitably cooked.
It tastes a little like curry??