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I’ve got a lot of vegetables left over in my fridge, so it’s time for some serious menu planning!
Amelishof CSA vegetables week 43
Last week’s veggies:
- red Batavian lettuce
- cilantro
- pointed paprika
- (Batavian) endive
- leek
- celery
Amelishof CSA vegetables week 44
This week’s greens:
- pumpkin
- lollo bionda lettuce
- Elstar apples
- parsley
- kohlrabi
- green beans
Menu plan Wednesday November 2nd – Tuesday 8th
You’ll even find vegetables on the menu from my CSA loot further back!
- Wednesday: eating out with birthday boy @variomatic in Hotel de Goudfazant (Amsterdam)
- Thursday (Mr Gnoe’s piano night): leek-fennel soup (veganized version of Vega Gerechten p.134) & veggie dog with greens
- Friday: spicy sweet potato soup, chili con ‘carne’ tacos and fennel-orange salad with black olives (Vega Gerechten p.150 & 179)
- Saturday: Indonesian dinner! Osèng-osèng kohlrabi, sambal goreng tofu & green beans with white rice (Vegetarisch Indonesisch Kookboek p.50 & 94)
- Sunday (Dexter-5 Night with Elsje): garlic-Jerusalem artichoke soup, garlic or rosemary bread from Vlaams Broodhuys, 2 types of hummus (red beet & pumpkin), cooking pears and red beet salad with walnuts and balsamico (Vega Gerechten p.81, 61 & 188)
- Monday: Ethiopian lentil dish (cutting from Leven, lente 2011) with ‘faux sour creme‘ (La Dolce Vegan!), pita bread and kohlrabi salad (Groentegerechten p.32) OR Indonesian leftovers with nasi goreng
- Tuesday: eating @ mother-in-law’s
The first two weeks of summer brought some really nice greens to our dinner table. Introducing a new feature on Graasland as well! But you gotta read on a little for that. ;)
Organic CSA vegetables week 26, 2011
Here’s what we found in our CSA box the previous week.
- Leek
- Spinach
- Radicchio
- Gooseberries
- Celery
- Chinese cabbage (napa, michihli)
It may seem a bit meagre but there’s something missing from the picture! Half a head of Chinese cabbage and a whole head of red Batavian lettuce. We picked up the veggies on our way to my aunt’s and since our fridge was still rather full we decided to leave some of the loot with her.
Organic CSA vegetables week 27, 2011
Now more importantly: this weeks veggies…
- Broad beans!!! Love ‘em!
- Tomatoes
- Kapucijner peas
- Basil
- Iceberg lettuce
- Pak choi (bok choy)
- Savory (bonenkruid)
I hope I won’t bore you by sharing another menu plan?
Menu plan July 7-12 2011
Due to our schedule there’s a lot of ‘easy food’ on the menu this week.
- Vegan Spaghetti Bolognese [Wednesday]
- White bean & tomato soup (freezer stash), baguette, green salad with scapes, radicchio and pinenuts [Thursday]
- In between hike and going to the vets: Indian lentil soup (dahl, freezer stash), homemade pizza, cabbage & carrot salad (recipe below) [Friday]
- Broad bean soup, rosemary focaccia from Broodnodig, leftover mashed carrot salad, radicchio salad [Saturday]
- After a day of hiking: vegan ‘shoarma’ (Vivera roerbakreepjes) with pita bread, garlic sauce and leftover carrot-cabbage salad [Sunday]
- Kapucijner peas with veggies Provençale (adapting recipe for fresh peas), baguette, salad
- Stir-fry of pak choi, leek, mushrooms and tofu with rice
New feature!
Cabbage contours by Jacqueline Tinney
Many people don’t know what to do with cabbage. That’s a pity because it’s such a healthy vegetable; loaded with vitamins A & C, potassium, calcium, phosphor. It is also thought to be anti-carcinogenic! And if you’re a CSA participant like us you’ll often find it in your box. :)
So. I decided to share some cabbage recipes I like as a special feature on Graasland! Starting of with this week’s side dish of cabbage & carrot salad. Other recipes you can expect in the future are ‘Cabbage with Coconut’ and Indonesian ‘Sambal Goreng Cabbage’.
Easy cabbage-carrot salad
This is a veganised version of Eethuis Iris’ recipe from Zonnig zomers tafelen (p.20).
Cabbage-carrot salad & orange juice
Ingredients
Serves 4.
- 350 g pointed cabbage (I used a mix of pointed and Chinese cabbage; you could also take ordinary white)
- 100 g carrot, cleaned
- 3 tbs veganaise
- 0.5 dl fresh orange juice
- pinch of curry powder
- salt & pepper
- 2 tbs of roasted sunflower seeds
- chopped parsley (optional: it’s not in the original recipe but I added it for colour)
Preparation
- Clean cabbage and cut out the hard core.
- Shred the cabbage very finely.
- Grate the carrot — or pulse a few times in your kitchen machine.
- Make a sauce of veganaise, orange juice, curry, salt and pepper.
- Mix vegetables and dressing, top with sunflower seeds and parsley.
On the contrary of what you may expect, the cabbage in this recipe is not overwhelming. I will make this salad again, maybe tweaking it here and there looking for an even better version: like adding a dash of lemon juice and possible some sweetener like agave syrup or golden raisins.
Do you have any favourite cabbage recipes to share? I’d love to hear them!
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Recipe submitted to the July Whip Up Something New! Challenge hosted on Joyfully Retired
- Radishes
- (Bundle) leek
- Red Batavian lettuce
- Tomatoes
- Endive frisée
- Bundle garlic (spring garlic)
- Strawberries
Yum, I’ve been anticipating those strawberries for a whole week! So much that I couldn’t resist buying some in the days in between ;) The very last one ended up in yesterday’s cold noodle bento. These strawberries in our CSA vegetable bag come from about 3 miles from our home! #greenliving ;) We immediately had them for dessert last night, so no need to come over to have a taste! ;)
I did manage to keep Ringo from devouring the endive (he haz a taste for it), so you may want to hop over one of the other nights?
Menu plan June 2-8 2011
- Asian fusion: tofu in tausi black bean sauce (leftover Chinese takeaway), nasi goreng (fried rice) and toemis spinach (Vegetarisch Indonesisch kookboek p.45) [Wednesday]
- Mexican night: bean burritos with steamed spinach [Thursday]
Bihoen with faux ‘chicken’ (leftover Chinese takeaway) andToemis endive (Vegetarisch Indonesisch kookboek p.46), pangek brown borlotti beans (Vegetarisch Indonesisch kookboek p.51), nasi koening (freezer stash) and salad with leftover miso dressing- Endive-potato mash with mushroom gravy (La Dolce Vegan p.181), onion and vegan sausage, salad
- Tomato-garlic pie (Amelisbode wk.22), green salad
- Gnocchi with grilled zucchini and tomato salad
I’ll leave you with two more pictures of dishes from last week’s menu plan. The noodle salad was good, especially with emping for topping (chopped nuts will probably be great too), so I’ll definitely make that again. The leek soup recipe was a bit of a disappointment though — will need to look further!
Cold noodle salad
Leek soup, noodle salad and emping kurupuk
A quick post about this week’s organic vegetables from Amelis’Hof. If you think you missed some veggies lately — you’re right! I’m two weeks behind but will post about them a.s.a.p.
- Spring onions
- Bok choi
- Leek
- Lettuce
- Parsley
- Red bell pepper
Looking forward to next week when we’ll be getting STRAWBERRIES!
Menu plan for the week (#21)
Easy Carrot-Orange Soup
- Carrot-orange soup, Puy lentil salad (from The Vegan Table Cookbook p.190 via Food for Thought podcast) and panini. [Wednesday]
- Noodles & sesame-ginger stir-fry with tofu, shiitake mushrooms, pakchoi, leek, paprika and carrot (inspired by Eileen’s stir-fry in La Dolce Vegan! p.148). [Thursday]
- Veggie hotdog, lentil leftovers & green salad.
- Noodle salad & leek soup (Mc Donald’s Kitchen p.59).
- Sweet potato with spicy cumin mayo (VEGA-gerechten p.364), veggie burger and baked leek with oyster mushrooms (Eethuis Iris’ Groentegetechten p.40).
- Lentil loaf (from The Vegan Table Cookbook p.248 via Food for Thought podcast)
On Tuesday I’ll be dining out with friends so I’m guessing Mr Gnoe will be eating pizza, omelet or something else with cheese and/or egg. ;)
Do you have any plans for the week?
Salad of Puy lentils
Most weeks there’s one vegetable in our CSA batch that was grown indoors: tomatoes (last week) alternated with paprika, eggplant, et cetera. Or it’s interchanged with fruit, that doesn’t necessarily come from the glass house.
- Endive
- Leek
- Red lettuce
- Rocket
- Chard
- Pointed pepper
On the menu this week were mashed potatoes with raw endive and an Indian chard dish (in lieu of spinach) to eat with the leftover takeaway of cauliflower bhajee and dal tarka (lentils). And basmati rice of course — it’s the best smelling rice I know!!!
Unfortunately naan bread is often made with animal products like yoghurt. So I always make sure to have some bake-off organic naan that is 100% vegan in the pantry. Can’t have Indian food without it, can you? ;)
Hooray, CSA season has started again!
Yesterday Mr Gnoe went to pick up our vegetable bag for the first time in 2011. It’s the 4th year we’ll be getting a bag of local organic veggies from Amelis’hof garden (formerly known as De Aardvlo) every week till Christmas. And the 3rd year I’m consistently logging them with a picture on Graasland.
For those of you wondering what CSA means — have you noticed the Glossary of terms on Graasland?
- Herb flowers
- Leek
- Tomatoes
- Rapini (or turnip tops)
- Spinach
- Lettuce
I already used some spinach and tomato in a pasta salad I had for lunch today. Those beautiful white flowers accompanied last night’s vegan pasta with white asparagus. So now I need to think about what to make of the rest… I guess it’s back to menu planning for Gnoe!
Some of you may have seen my FourSquare tweet last Friday in which I talked about picking up some CSA veggies… #confusing There’s another organic farm nearby from which we get additional vegetables: Groenekans. It’s different in that we aren’t ‘shareholders’ but we do pay a certain amount in advance which enables the farmer to invest in seedlings etc. It also varies from our regular, real CSA in that we get to pick our groceries from a list of availabilities, instead of receiving a surprise packet. And that’s exactly why it is such a good addition to our weekly mystery bag of Amelishof goodies. :)
Any tips on what to cook this week?
Our third season of CSA has come to a closing. Now we’ll need to decide on which veggies to buy all by ourselves again… Not an easy task! #lazybums
- purslane
- leek
- thyme
- red cabbage
- choggia beets
- apples
- variety of onions: shallot, red and white
When I got beets last time I made Nigel Slater’s Beetroot Seeds Cake and it was goooood!
Clicking on the picture will bring you to Flickr, where I’ve put up the link to the on-line recipe and some adaptations I made.
Yesterday was another Meatless Monday (Plantaardig Maandag) and supposed to be December’s #twitterfoodparty about squash, so I made a vegan Indian curry with basmati rice and (prefab) mango chutney with last week’s hokkaido pumpkin. The picture didn’t turn out too great but it tasted better than it looks. ;) Anyway, the food party got postponed due to too many ‘twabsentees‘…! If you want to join in, just make something with squash on January 10th, use the hashtag and tweet a picture!
So, no more CSA (b)log posts until the first week of May 2011. Some of you might think that a good thing… But hopefully not all???
We’re halfway December and the end of our CSA season is nearing. Next week’s bag will be The Last!
But you haven’t even had a chance to enjoy any of this month’s organic vegetables… So, here are my veggies of weeks 48, 49 and (freshly picked up today) 50.
Amelishof organic vegetables week 48, 2010
- leek
- kale
- capsicum
- corn salad
- red beet (waiting for me to make Nigel Slater’s red beet cake…)
- pumpkin
Amelishof organic vegetables week 49, 2010
- brussels sprouts (on the stalk, just for fun!)
- parsnip
- corn lettuce
- kohlrabi
- onions (red & white)
- Elstar apples
Amelishof organic vegetables week 50, 2010
WOW, what a mega bag of vegetables we got today! Remember the Invasion of the Broad-Leaved Endive Heads? This time there were even more! It makes a nice green background for the rest of the veggies ;) And Ringo totally went for it… Crazy cat :)
- kale
- endive
- carrots (not washed, so they’ll keep longer)
- root parsley (on the left of my pile of carrots, hiding behind the…)
- kabocha pumpkin!
- celeriac
- cooking pears
- Jerusalem artichoke
I’m not planning our menus and we’ve been eating out, visiting relatives et cetera so next to this HUGE new batch we still have some veggies of the previous weeks to use up: beetroot — but like I said; I’ve got great plans for that ;) — parsnip, kohlrabi, leek and 1 small pie pumpkin. Maybe I would be wise start planning again ;)
Say, Elsje: if you see anything you’d like to use for our 24 mini-marathon dinner next Friday, just give a shout!
Ook in week 34 kregen we weer een fijne tas van De Aardvlo!
Maïs behoort tot mijn favoriete groenten — ik zou wel iedere dag een maïskolf lusten maar dat is niet zo goed voor me ;) En ook courgette staat hoog in de top 10; wisten jullie dat ik die groente pas heeeeeeel laat heb ontdekt, in 1990 of zo?!
Biologische prei smaakt geweldig, veel beter dan die van de Appie (oooooh daar komt weer een preek van mijn broer ;) en die fris en fruitige zomerappeltjes komen ook als geroepen!
Tel daarbij de spekbonen en romainesla op en je weet: dit is een superweek! :))
* The picture on Flickr has English notes about the veggies! *
De groentetas van week 32 daagt ons weer uit om nieuwe recepten te zoeken. In plaats van Christmas in July kregen wij meiknolletjes in augustus.
- meiknollen
- groene bataviasla
- sperziebonen
- venkel
- prei
- bosje tijm
Met de tempeh die we nog in huis hebben wordt dat in ieder geval een keertje nasi goring (prei) met sambal goreng boontjes eten. Jawel, ook dat is een all-time favourite die regelmatig op tafel verschijnt. En dan kunnen we meteen dat restje kool uit de koelkast opmaken. Met de boontjes die overblijven maak ik dan boontjessalade met tomatensaus, yummy! De rest van het weekplan moet nog worden uitgedacht, dus suggesties zijn welkom!
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