CSA Meals: Week 15 (pickup)

Corn, green beans, cortland apples, jonathan apples, carnival squash, cucumber, sweet potatoes, garlic, tomatoes, eggs, and oat bread.

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Preparation!  Blanch the corn and the green beans. Not pictured: make delicious stock with the corn cobs. Details here .

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Tomato sauce
Start with lots of olive oil and lots of coarsely chopped tomatoes. Simmer until tomatoes turn to mush and it smells tasty. Add garden herbs (here: whole stems of oregano, thyme, and rosemary), onion, garlic, and more olive oil, and simmer until herbs fall apart.

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Corn & Green Bean & Garbanzo Melange

In the leftover tomato sauce that didn't fit in the container, add freshly blanched green beans and corn, chopped sweet potato (microwaved), and garbanzo beans. Saute until everything is heated through.

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Afghan-inspired veggies: Inspired by kaddo bourani (maybe?), a delicious dish of pumpkin, garlic, and yogurt.

Butter

Sweet potato, chopped

Onion, diced

New potato, diced

Garlic, minced

Pattypan, sliced 

Stock

Garbanzo beans, bacon, sausage, or other protein

Melt butter in pan. Add sweet potato and saute awhile, stirring regularly, until sweet potato has softened a little. Add onion, potato, garlic, pattypan, maybe more butter, and a little bit of soup stock. Saute until all potatoes are soft and the stock has reduced.

Add garbanzo beans and/or sausage/bacon

Serve with yogurt sauce:
Yogurt, cucumber, dill, lemon

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Rescuing leftovers: weak noodle soup. We had a leftovers container of noodle soup from a local restaurant, and the broth was pretty weakly flavored. It had some weird veggie chunks in it, and some nice noodles, so we added:

- Tomato sauce, recipe above
- Freshly blanched corn

Simmered all together for a few minutes. Om nom.

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Nutella popcorn

- Pop plain popcorn in a paper bag in the microwave. (~1/3 c kernels into bag, folder half inch of bag top over a couple of times, microwave ~2:20)

- Microwave nutella, possibly with a little butter, stirring occasionally, until drizzleable. To get my nutella to a drizzleable consistency, I had do add frangelico. Gosh, darn.

- REMOVE ALL UNPOPPED KERNELS FROM POPCORN.

- Drizzle popcorn with nutella

- Sprinkle with fine salt.

This... is decadent.