CSA Meals 2013: Week 8

 Zucchini, oranges, radishes, onions, green beans, sweet potatoes, spinach, salad greens, sourdough, and strawberry jam.

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Pinkie cheesecake
Sweet potato (3x medium? 2x medium and one small?)
Beet, 1x small
3 eggs
Orange, Juice and pulp and zest
Cream cheese, roughly half a package
Vanilla
Bit of salt
Sliced pound cake for the crust

Lay sliced pound cake in pan, roughly evenly covering bottom. Use wand blender to mix all other ingredients until smooth. Pour over pound cake. Bake at 350 until set.

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Pink potato salad
Potato, chopped
Beet, finely chopped
Hardboiled egg, finely chopped
Zucchini, finely sliced
Green bean, finely sliced
Anything pickled you feel like adding - I put in some finely sliced pickled napa cabbage, pickled onion would be delicious
Mayo + milk
salt

Combine and chill.

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Stir Fry Veggies
Garlic
Peanut oil
Green beans
Garbanzo beans (cooked in crockpot chicken recipe)
Mushrooms
Pickled beet
Pickled onion
Pickled cabbage
Noodles (angel hair)
Ripped lettuce
Chopped peanuts

Stir fry veggies and garbanzo beans in the peanut oil. Add to cooked noodles, top with ripped salad greens and peanuts.

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Infused Honeys
Rosemary infused honey
Coffee infused honey
Lavender infused honey

Put honey in a jar with the desired infusion (coffee beans, lavender buds, rosemary leaves) and wait. Turn the jar periodically. It's hypnotic.

Pictured: slowly draining out the honey.


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Wine stewed cherries and apricots
Cherries
Apricots
Shiraz to cover

Simmer until fruit is all squooshy.

We at this on paneer, it would be delicious with paneer on crepes.