CSA meals: Week 2 (pickup day)

This week's haul:

Red potatoes, green beans, kohlrabi, swiss chard, kale, zucchini, strawberries, a dozen eggs, and italian bread.

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Green (actually pink) spread of the week: kohlrabi greens. This stuff is seriously delicious on toast. None of the bitterness or harshness of any of the raw ingredients, but still a complex flavor.
    - Beet
    - Radish
    - Onion
    - Kohlrabi bulb (IMPORTANT: PEELED (thanks, jill!))
    - Kohlrabi greens
    - Butter
    - Garlic
  
    In a deep pan, melt butter and saute garlic.  Add coarsely chopped beet, radish, onion, kohlrabi bulb. Cook at medium heat for a few minutes, stirring well to coat in butter. Add kohlrabi greens (ripped a bit into pieces for convenience). Cook all until soft.
  
    Add :
    - Cheese, chopped or shredded
    - Mayo
    - Mustard
    - Balsamic
    - Splash of worcestershire
    - Sliced raw pattypan
  
    Stir until cheese has melted. Blend with wand blender. If desired, add olive oil or cream to taste/texture/spreadability.

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Lazy Tea Eggs

    - Cooled hardboiled eggs

    - Black tea teabags (darjeeling)

    - Soy sauce

    - Bit of sugar, bit of salt

Crack shells on eggs by rolling on countertop. Don’t remove any shell, just crack all over, and place eggs in a glass or ceramic container. Boil other ingredients in a pan; allow to cool a little (so the egg-container isn't harmed) and pour over eggs.

You're supposed to simmer the eggs in the mixture, but I was already cooking enough on the stove, so I just let the eggs cool to room temp, then stuck them in the fridge.

I overestimated how much liquid I need, so I had lots left over. Accordingly:

Tea Onions (?!?!) I have no idea how this will turn out. Attempt at your own discretion.

Pour tea mixture over finely chopped raw vidalia onions. Let rest in fridge.

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Pink Potato Salad

 - Potatoes
 - Cucumber
 - Lime
 - Pink/green spread (above), thinned with olive oil, cream, or yogurt
 - Spring onions
 - Pattypan

 - salt to taste

Cook potatoes. Let cool, dice into chunks. 
Dice cucumber and toss with lime juice in a large bowl.
Finely slice spring onions and pattypan (raw), toss with cucumber.

Add potatoes and thinned pink/greens spread, toss well to coat. Refrigerate.

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Strawberry Sauce / Decadent Beverage

Behead strawberries. Blend some portion of the strawberries to liquid, and freeze leftover strawberries.

Pictured: Sauce on orange-sweet potato pie.

For decadent beverage: add lime or orange juice and liquor/liqueur of choice.

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Zucchini chocolate chip bread. This is an experimental modification of my pumpkin bread recipe. It turned out very well! Light and fluffy, albeit green.

 - 2 small zucchinis, finely grated and sitting on paper towels for awhile to drain a bit

 - 1.5 c white whole wheat flour
 - 1 tsp baking soda
 - 1/2 tsp salt
 - 1/4 c brown sugar
 - 1/2 c olive oil
 - 2 eggs
 - 1/2 tsp vanilla
 - spices as desired (cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon, etc)
 - Chocolate chips

 Preheat oven to 350. Combine wet ingredients in a large bowl, dry ingredients in a smaller bowl. Add dry ingredients to wet. Mix well to combine and pour into buttered baking dish or muffin tin.

Bake until knife inserted into center comes out clean (very roughly, 18-24 minutes for muffins, 30?? minutes for pan).

(An hour later: we've eaten half of the pan. It's tasty.)

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My cats really like vegetables.

Kohlrabi stem.

Swiss chard

Helping!