Thursday, July 14, 2011

Week 15 Veggie List & Ideas

On this 15th week of our CSA season, because our weather has been cooler than usual, we are still enjoying late spring veggies. We’ll be getting the first of the green beans (we hope, as broccoli was substituted last week!), my husband’s favorite. Looks like the first of the young collard green too, and I serve them with Asian-style ginger sauce. Like last week, we will make a delicious non-dairy potato-leek soup that uses just the tiniest bit of butter and garlic, and hopefully perfect the recipe enough to post.

The Santa Rosa plums are delicious this year, and I look forward to more this week. I took a jam-making class last week (apricots & strawberries) & am now wondering about making golden raspberry jam, plums in honey sauce, red raspberries preserved in raspberry wine, etc.

Fennel, cilantro, and basil can all add flavor to something…but what?

This week’s veggies:
Basil
Baby Beets
Carrots
Cilantro
Collard greens
Fennel
Green beans
Smallish leeks
Lettuce
Potatoes
Summer squash
Strawberries
Raspberries
Blackberries
Plums

Leftovers: radishes & their greens, garlic, cherry tomatoes from store,

Ideas:
Salad: lettuce, carrot, radish, cherry tomatoes
Simply steam: green beans, summer squash, maybe with basil?
Vegan potato-leek soup
Asian-style collard greens
Polish-style beets
Lemon-cilantro chicken?
Preserved fruit or jam?

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