Grilled Beets and Turnips

Last night, Mike grilled beets and onions for part of our dinner.  The beets are definitely a taste that has to grow on you, but I really liked the turnips.  These probably won't be on the list of favorites for any of the girls and they sufficiently smothered them in ketchup to eat their required tasting of them!

Beets and/or turnips
Olive oil
onion & garlic seasoning
salt

Slice the beets and turnips thin with the food processor and toss with olive oil and seasonings.  Cook on grill until tender.  Add additional salt to taste.

Sweet Restaurant Slaw

I did use some of our cabbage, carrots, and green onions to make some slaw last week from the recipe below.  I cut back to about 1/3 cup of sugar like many of the reviewers suggested.

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/sweet-restaurant-slaw/detail.aspx

I'm not a big vinegar fan so I look for recipes without much but I wasn't crazy about this version either.  My aunt Mary Carolyn has the magic touch and makes the best slaw.  Maybe I just need to go watch her make it!

Week 5 - June 23, 2011

With everyone out of the house except me last week, there wasn't a lot of cooking going on then when they got back, we all went to Pennsylvania for the weekend.  Here are the goodies from the last share.

Kohlrabi

Carrots

Beets

Green Onions

Red Russian Kale

Lettuce

Basil

Savory

Fennel

Chives

Week #4 - June 16

Some new things for the season in this week's share!

Turnips
Chinese cabbage
Beets
Green onions
Lacinato kale
Lettuce

I need to find some things that keep well as leftovers or ways to freeze them since it's jut me around he house for a big part of the week.

Kohlrabi Hash Browns

Here's a recipe we tried last night that tasted really good! 
http://www.jennifersanborn.com/2009/08/kohlrabi-hash-browns/

The towel that you dry the kohlrabi with will have a lingering odor the next day even if it's left outside to dry :)

Asian Sugar Snap Peas

Technically an appetizer, but we had it with dinner last night along with steaks and a salad (with our CSA lettuce and snow peas, among other toppings).  It tasted great but will probably use a little less olive oil next time.  They still kept some of their crunch and tasted great. 

Asian Sugar Snap Pea Appetizer
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Asian-Sugar-Snap-Pea-Appetizer/Detail.aspx

Week #3 - June 9, 2011

This week's share was broccoli, kohlrabi, turnips, green onions, swiss chard, lettuce (and lots of it), and cilantro.  We're still working on last week's lettuce so it's going to be a lot of salads this week although we did bring some to my in-laws this weekend.  You can only eat so many salads!

Salads and kale chips

It's been a little busy this week so we've been enjoying all the great lettuce from last week in salads with broccoli, kohlrabi, and radishes over the fresh lettuce and arugula.  We picked sugar snap peas and snow peas on Monday so the girls have been munching on those as a snack. 

I tried kale chips again and they turned out a little better this year but I think they still need some work.  If anyone has any suggestions for something different, let me know.  Preheated the oven to 400 degrees.  Mixed season salt with olive oil and tossed with bite size pieces of kale.  Baked in the oven for about 10-12 minutes until some of the leaves started looking a little brown. 

Stir fry is sounding good for tonight!

Dill & Salad

A picnic on Thursday and Tae Kwon Do testing on Friday meant that we didn't get to enjoy any of our veggies until today.  But the lettuce mix made a great salad before our evening bike ride/date night and the dill is all frozen away in cubes.(http://www.preservingyourharvest.com/FreezingDill.html) 

Week #2 - June 2

A big share this week!

Broccoli
Kohlrabi
Radishes
Pac choi
Kale
Lettuce
Salad mix
Arugula
Spinach
Fenugreek
Dill
Sugar snap peas (Mike's going to pick these on Monday)

Turnips, Radishes, Lettuce, and Greens

Tonight's dinner included

• Turnips, radishes, and bell peppers tossed with olive oil and seasonings and cooked on the grill.  (We need to get more practice with grilling veggies!)
• Turnip greens and rest of braising mix cooked similar to sweet & savory kale recipe (also on our burner on the grill)
• Lettuce and remaining arugula made a great salad.

Can't wait to see what tomorrow's CSA share will bring!  Hopefully plenty of grill-friendly foods as we haven't turned on our AC in the house yet.  Mike and I both recently read No Impact Man and thought some of it was pretty interesting so we are going to try the No Impact Experiment next week.  A documentary about their year is also available and is streaming on Netflix. While we aren't going to cut the electricity off completely, we decided we would leave the AC off next week and didn't want to get used to it this week only to turn it off.