CSA Meals: Week 3 (pickup day)

This week:

Pattypans, peas, spinach, mushrooms, cucumbers, blueberries, peaches, a dozen eggs, and Italian bread.  There were beets but I failed to pick them up, and some sort of lettuce that we traded for another share of peaches (one head of lettuce, traded for six peaches!). Recipes this week include some of last week's riches as well.

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 This Week's Green Sauce base:

- butter and/or chicken soup fat

- kohlrabi

- radish

- mushroom

- chard

- beet stems

- pattypan

- onion, pickled onion, or tea onion

- spinach

- Worcestershire sauce

Melt fats in large pot. Add everything but the spinach and worcestershire and cook until beginning to soften. Add spinach and cover pot. Cook until spinach has wilted; stir very well and continue cooking until all vegetables are very soft and spinach is a pathetic pile. Add worcestershire sauce to taste.Blend with wand blender into homogenous spread.

This made a lot of sauce, so I divided it into several jars and will add other ingredients as the inspiration strikes. Such as:

Green Sauce with Greek Yogurt:

Mix green sauce with greek yogurt. Decadent on bread, on pasta (in place of pesto), in potato salad, etc.

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 Roasted green beans:

Wash and trim beans. Toss beans lightly with olive oil and salt. Roast at 400-425 for 10-25 minutes, turning every few minutes and removing when slightly crispy and browned.

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Raw veggie and greek yogurt salad

Finely sliced raw kohlrabi, cucumber, pattypan, onion (raw, pickled, or tea)

Add greek yogurt and mix well.

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Color Changing Vegetable Cake

Medium zucchini, shredded and slightly wrung out

Large beet, chopped

Small sweet potato, chopped

2 eggs

1/2 cup olive oil

1 tsp vanilla

1.5 C white whole wheat flour

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

Sprinkling of ground cloves

Chocolate chips

Cook beet and sweet potato in microwave until soft. Blend, mash, or use a food processor to turn it into puree.

Combine zucchini and beet + sweet potato puree. Add eggs, olive oil, vanilla. Mix well.

In a small bowl, combine flour, baking soda, salt, and cloves.

Mix dry ingredients into wet ingredients. Mix well. Add chocolate chips to taste. It will appear alarmingly pink.

Bake at 350 for 25 minutes or until knife inserted in center comes out clean.

Surprisingly not pink after baking.

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Punchy Peaches

Skin and dice peach. Add liqueur of choice (we've been using orange cognac) and lime juice. Eat with a spoon.

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