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?
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donderdag 5 mei 2011 bij 20:23
Leeswammes
Very nice to see your first haul. I’m thinking the leek would be good in a quiche? Or is there too much of it? I’ve never heard of rapini. I’m going to look it up.
vrijdag 6 mei 2011 bij 10:27
Gnoe
Raapsteeltjes in Dutch; I bet you’ve heard of those?
Thanks for the idea of a leek pie — I love leek pie. :) Unfortunately quiche is one thing that is a bit of a challenge since I’ve become vegan: no egg, no cheese… (butter and cream are easy to substitute). Last night we put some of the leek in the nasi goreng we had with oséng-oséng green beans & endive. There’s still a lot left, but leek is one of those veggies we ALWAYS got some use for.
zaterdag 7 mei 2011 bij 17:52
Kame
Rapini sounds delicious.
If you look the other way around,we will steal your Rapini, Lettuce and Tomato ;)
woensdag 25 mei 2011 bij 11:35
Gnoe
I wondered where it had disappeared to! ;)
maandag 9 mei 2011 bij 11:21
Uniflame
Maybe the recipe of the lettuce mash I posted? Without the eggs of course :)
woensdag 25 mei 2011 bij 11:38
Gnoe
Good suggestion but I have found that just omitting an ingredient often isn’t a great option; you need to substitute. That was true when I started making ‘meat’ recipes as a vegetarian and still is now that I’m veganizing vegetarian dishes.
donderdag 19 mei 2011 bij 03:00
Bentobird/Jenn
Fresh and spring-luscious! salads and a risotto with green veggies and leeks sound good…happy spring Ms. Gnoe!!
woensdag 25 mei 2011 bij 11:39
Gnoe
Thanks Jenn! Always loving your enthusiastic comments! :)
zondag 22 mei 2011 bij 14:01
Louise
The herb flowers look so fabulous. A perfect marker of spring.
woensdag 25 mei 2011 bij 11:40
Gnoe
It does, doesn’t it? It was so much fun to look at I almost forgot to actually *eat* it! LOL