Thursday, June 28, 2012

CSA meals: Week 4 (pickup day)

Goodies this week: beets, spinach, green beans, new potatoes, eggplants, plums, peaches, blueberries, bread, and peach butter.

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Green sauce of the week
Butter
Onion
Pattypan
Garlic
Spinach
Beet greens

Melt butter in large pot; add onion, pattypan, garlic, and saute until a bit soft.
Add spinach and beet greens.
Cover and cook on medium until greens have collapsed and everything is nice and soft.
Blend well.

I tried a thai kind of approach to flavoring this time, with ginger, lime, and fish sauce, but none of these flavors ended up particularly identifiable. I added a bit of worcestershire  sauce and some greek yogurt and we spread it on bread.

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Red sauce of the week
Butter
Pattypan
Beet (sliced and microwaved for a minute or two - otherwise it takes forever to cook)
Beet stems
Chard stems
Kohlrabi stems

Melt butter in pot. Add pattypan, beet, chopped beet stems, and any remaining chard stems and kohlrabi stems. Cover pot and cook on medium until everything is soft. Blend well.
 

 
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Colorful veggie salsa
Eggplant
Green beans
Beet stems
Olive oil

Chop all veggies and saute in olive oil. This would be lovely with additional veggies - pattypans, tomatoes, corn.


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Dinner: tilapia topped with lime and green sauce, veggie salsa, and sliced new potato, all sprinkled with kale bits (from previous post). Tilapia is easily microwaveable: 2 minutes, flip, 2 more minutes.

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Plums with ricotta and honey
We had a bunch of milk that needed to be consumed, so I made some ricotta / paneer. It's dead simple: mix milk with acid, heat, drain. 10 minutes in total, counting draining time. 
Mix ricotta with vanilla. Spread vanilla ricotta on sliced plums and drizzle with honey.

 

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