I’ve gotten four squash: two acorn and two butternut squash that I’ve received as part of my CSA boxes over the last month or so. Problem is that it really isn’t the time of the year for squash, at least not the typical ways I make it Mushroom and Squash soup Squash bread So need […]
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Summer CSA Week 10Summer CSA Week 10
This is the last week of the summer CSA and the box I got was full of lots of tasty goodies including: cucumbers yellow squash zucchini sweet potatoes baby arugula eggplant bell peppers cherry tomatoes jalapenos micro greens As far as I’m concerned this is the best box I’ve gotten so far. The contents are […]
Grilled Flatbreads with Roasted Vegetables and Goat CheeseGrilled Flatbreads with Roasted Vegetables and Goat Cheese
I decided to be ambitious for dinner today. I was feeling ambitious and I wanted to experiment and make something that looks fancy. To help save time so I wouldn’t have to do all the work at the end of the day, I pre-roasted the vegetable toppings eggplant zucchini hatch chiles shredded the manchego cheese […]
Grilled Ginger Garlic Soy Chicken over Asian pesto noodlesGrilled Ginger Garlic Soy Chicken over Asian pesto noodles
[singlepic id=199 w=320 h=240 float=right] Tonight I wanted to try a new recipe that I put together all by myself. Several weeks ago I made an Asian Pesto using the Thai Basil from my garden. I ended up with more than I could use in a single instance. So I froze a container with the […]
Purple Hulled Pea hummusPurple Hulled Pea hummus
This week’s CSA box contained something I’ve never encountered before; purple hulled peas. I didn’t really know what to do with them but seeing as I forgot to buy hummus to use in my lunch sandwiches this week, I decided that perhaps I should try to make hummus with them. I got the idea from […]
Grilled Garlic Basil Pork ChopsGrilled Garlic Basil Pork Chops
[singlepic id=232 w=320 h=240 float=left] Last week while I was visiting my folks my mom asked me to make dinner one night. I decided to make something simple because I wanted to be able to spend the day visiting not cooking. What I chose to make was Grilled Garlic Basil Pork Chops and a Southwest […]
Summer CSA Week 9Summer CSA Week 9
It is the second to last week of the summer CSA. I’m splitting the box this week with friends who’ve been watering our garden for us while we were on vacation. In my half I ended up with acorn squash micro greens zucchini purple hull peas cucumbers eggplant jalapenos I’ve never dealt with purple hull […]
Summer CSA Week 8Summer CSA Week 8
The summer CSA is coming to a close. Only three week’s left! This week we got: watermelon butternut squash bell peppers cherry tomatoes cucumbers microgreens zucchini banana peppers sweet corn mustard greens Supposedly this is the end of the sweet corn so I need to make the most of it. Maybe I’ll make a roasted […]
Zucchini casseroleZucchini casserole
So zucchini has been a prominent feature in the last two week’s CSA boxes and I’ve been having trouble using it up. The classic answer to “what do I do with so much zucchini” is make zucchini bread. However, there were two reason this wouldn’t work for me. I needed vegetables to go with my […]
Storing up veggies for the “winter”Storing up veggies for the “winter”
I’ve been getting a CSA box since the spring and some weeks I can’t use up all the vegetables. This often happens because I’m going out of town for work or there is just a plethora of one thing. To deal with this I’ve been using measures that my mother and grandmother taught me growing […]