CSA Meals 2014: Week 1

A CSA share is a lot of vegetables, many of which are not your usual fare. For the rest of the CSA season I will document how we deal with all these dang veggies, starting with the week's haul, then detailing what preparation I did after picking up the share, and then the recipes. (We supplement the CSA share with food from farmer's markets and the grocery store, so the recipes aren't limited to the CSA pickup.)

Week 1: Potatoes, apples, mushrooms, kale, beets, radishes, asparagus, lettuce, (traded for more beets), eggs, bread. Good start!

Prep:
- wash kale, rip leaves off of stems. let dry, pack in huge tupperware with a paper towel
- wash beet greens and radish greens, let dry, pack in tupperware with a paper towel
- wash beet and kale stems, pack in tupperware with paper towel
- wash asparagus, set in big mug of water in fridge
- hardboil eggs
- boil beets and potatoes


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Meal: Greened Potato
Garlic sesame oil
Beet greens, chopped
Asparagus, chopped
Great northern beans
Boiled potato, cut in half and the insides kind of mooshed
Cheese, shredded

Stir fry beet greens and asparagus in the garlic sesame oil. Add great northern beans and stir around until heated. Pour over potato and top with cheese.

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Meal: Beets'n'Eggs on Toast
Beet, boiled, peeled, and sliced
Egg, hardboiled and sliced
Mayo
Crazy salt
Hearty bread or toast

Slather bread with mayo. Pile beet and egg on bread. Salt. This is especially good on the many-grain great harvest bread.

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Meal: Beet Asparagus Beef

Beet, boiled peeled chopped
Asparagus, chopped
Beefs, cooked, in whatever form. We had some tough weird steaks that we chopped small against the grain.
Garlic
Peanut oil

Saute asparagus in peanut oil with garlic. Add beet and beef, stir until heated.

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Meal: Curry Lentil Mushroom Kale soup
Celery
Lentils
Bacon fat
Mushrooms (chopped)
Garlic
Kale (chopped)
Sweet potato (cooked)
Lime
Curry powder

Cook lentils in water with celery. While lentils are cooking, melt bacon fat in a pan and add chopped mushrooms, lime, and garlic. Stir around, wait a few minutes, then add kale. Stir to coat, then cover and cook on low for awhile. When the kale is all wilty and cooked, add mixture to the now-cooked lentils. Add sweet potato. Add curry powder to taste.

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Side dish: Greens stir-fry
Butter
Garlic
Balsamic vinegar
Mushrooms, rinsed and chopped
Asparagus, chopped
Boiled radish, chopped
Beet stems, chopped

Saute it all in butter with garlic and balsamic to taste.