Category: CSA Box

Fall has arrived here in Houston and that means soup season is back. This week I decided to make an old favorite – Potato Leek Soup. The biggest challenging with this soup is making sure the leeks are good and clean. The best way to do this is to slice them up and soak in […]

At last the fall CSA has started! I picked up my first box yesterday and it had so many awesome goodies! cherry tomatoes green beans summer squash zucchini eggplant cucumbers baby greens mix of arugula and mizuna micro greens green peppers jalapeno peppers We immediately used the cherry tomatoes in a pasta veggie saute and […]

Sometime this summer I decided that the cost of healthy frozen treats was too much and I wanted to make my own. Since then I’ve been experimenting with making various fruit bars, creamsicles and other frozen treats in the popsicle family. I bought two different types of popsicle molds made by Tovolo: one was bar […]

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 […]

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 […]

[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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]