CSA Meals 2013: Week 5

Chard, apples, onions, oranges, mushrooms, sweet potatoes, sugar snap peas, parmesan sourdough, eggs.

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Mildly Green Meatballs
~ 2lbs ground beef
2 eggs
Several dashes of Worcestershire sauce
Couple handfuls of spinach, wilted in the microwave and lightly blendered
Many shakes of parmesan

Combine all ingredients and form into meatballs. Bake at 350 for 20 minutes or until cooked through.
Word to the wise: if you purchase fattier meat, because it on sale, bake these in a dish with sides. Cleaning rendered fat off of an oven heating element is No Fun.

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Wine fruit sauce
Wine
Oranges
Tangerines
Apricots

Cut peel off of oranges and tangerine, slices into chunks. Add oranges, tangerines, and apricots to wine and stew until chunks are falling apart. Wand blend into a sauce.
We ate this on an unsweetened sweet potato pie.

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Green sauce
bacon fat
chard
spinach
parmesan

Wilt spinach and chard in bacon fat. Wand blend. Add parmesan to taste.

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Red sauce
Tomato
Olive oil
Rosemary
Thyme
Garlic
White wine

Combine all and simmer until tomatoes all apart. Wand blend.

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Stop and Start Shepherd's Pies
Start pie:
Green sauce
Onions, carmelized by cooking in oil for awhile
Parsnip, fried in peanut oil until tasty
Zucchini & mushroom, sliced and cooked in peanut oil until softish
Turkey, shredded
Mashed potatoes

Stop pie:
Red sauce
Onions, carmelized
Celery, lightly sauteed in peanut oil
Peas, frozen
Turkey, shredded
Mashed potatoes

For each pie, layer in a pie crust (or a pie pan) in order of ingredients. Smoosh mashed potatoes in a general layer on the top to sort of .. seal it. I covered each with saran wrap, then a bag, and froze.

Bake ~30min at 350 or until mashed potato tips turn brown and pie is heated through.

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Corn dog muffins
1 c white whole wheat flour
1 c cornmeal
2 eggs
Blob of honey
1/2 c olive oil
1 c milk +1 tsp vinegar (let sit for a few minutes before adding)
Small slices of cheese
Hot dogs cut into rounds

Mix everything but the cheese and hot dogs. Fill muffin cups halfway, then drop hot dog slices and a slice of cheese on top of the batter, then cover with more batter. Bake at 375 for 24 minutes.


Grapefruit paneer muffins
Grapefruit (zest, some pulp, juice)
Paneer (from 4 c whole milk + 4 tbsp vinegar + 4 min in microwave)
1/2 c olive oil
1/2 c applesauce
2 c www flour
2 eggs
3/4 tsp baking soda
3/4 tsp salt
Vanilla

Combine all ingredients and spoon into muffin cups. Bake at 350 for 24 minutes or until knife comes out clean.

Muffin tins, bake at 350 20-24 min