CSA Meals 2014: Week 4

Week 4: yellow squash, cucumber, spring onions, mushrooms, beets, lettuce, spinach, blueberries, muenster, rosemary-lavender foccacia, eggs.

Prep:
- wash spinach, beet greens, lettuce, and pack in tupperware with layers of paper towels
- wash and chop beet stems 
- hard boil eggs
- wash and chop spring onions
- eat blueberries and munster

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Meal: Green burritos
Tortilla
Leftover stew meat, sliced thin
Provolone
Avocado
Beet greens
Spinach
Scallions


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Meal: Stir fry
Bacon fat, salt, balsamic
Manzanilla olives
Kale, green beans, beet stems, spring onion
Canellini beans
Sauce: yogurt, lime, cucumber
Served with three cheese tortellini

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Many Meals: Stuffed Braided Breads Inspired by http://imgur.com/a/2tFbp
For these bread thingies, I used the dough from Smitten Kitchen's Braided Lemon Bread , but omitted the 1/4 sugar in the dough.

Savory Veggie Filling:
Mushrooms
Beet stems
Sad leftover turnip
Spring onion
Beet greens


All sauteed in:
Bacon fat
Garlic
Balsamic

Spread on the braid base and topped with:
Cheese
Refried beans


Peanut Chicken Filling
Sauce:
Peanut butter
Lime juice
Garlic
Soy sauce
Fish sauce

Sesame oil
Chicken
Spring onions
Spinach

Cooked the chicken, then sauteed in sesame oil with the spring onions and spinach. Tossed all with the peanut sauce to coat.

Nutella mint filling:
Nutella
Chocolate mint, sliced fine

Aww yeeah.

Baked at 375F for a little over a half an hour.
I made four bread doohickies from the single dough batch, so the dough was quite thin. The size is much better for our purposes, though - more like single meals. I made 2 of the peanut chicken, one savory veggie, and one nutella and mint. So tasty.


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We planted some of last year's overwintered withered potato blobs. The plants looked alright for a while, then started to look a bit peaked, so I was dubious about the state of the plants and if they were truly potatoing deep down inside. I have read that you can actually do multiple (planned) harvests, so I took a peek. I love harvesting potatoes, it's like searching for Easter eggs!
Sure enough, they had been potatoing.

I replanted the tops - I'm curious if they'll reboot.