Organic CSA vegetables week 24, 2011
Our tomcat Ringo coming to check out the escarole among the organic vegetables again…
- Radishes
- Broad-leaved endive
- Romaine lettuce
- Chinese cabbage (napa, michihli)
- Red & green basil
- Broccoli
- Scapes (garlic flowers)
Organic CSA vegetables week 25, 2011
- Pointed green cabbage
- Rhubarb
- Red lettuce
- Rapini (turnip tops)
- Courgette (zucchini)
- Snow peas
- Parsley
It’s the last rhubarb of the season and I haven’t figured out yet what to do with it. Any ideas?
Here’s the rest of our menu plan!
Menu plan June 22-27 2011
- Pea soup from a can [Wednesday]
- Sambal goreng cabbage tahu (Vegetarisch Indonesisch kookboek p.93) [Thursday]
- Szechuan noodles (leftover sauce) and Chinese cabbage with coconut (Exotic & Traditional Vegetables p.2) [Friday]
- Simple dinner with guests before going to piano recital: Cream of tomato soup (La Dolce Vegan p.114), salad with snow peas, brownies [Saturday]
- Imam’s Eggplant, mashed carrot salad & tabbouleh (World Food Café p.37, 39 & 31)
- Tomato, cucumber and green pepper mezze (World Food Café p.37), Turkish lentil soup (Met machtig mooie menu’s de wereld rond p.36), leftovers
From the menu plan I previously posted I’ve already shown you the Couscous salad with Orange Basil-Tempeh and Sweet Miso Dressing. Here are the pictures of two other dinners I photographed.
Lentil loaf (from Food for Thought podcast) and Turkish takeaway leftovers
Szechuan noodles from Vegan Family Meals
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vrijdag 24 juni 2011 bij 16:22
Leeswammes
You always make such delicious meals! So impressed.
zaterdag 25 juni 2011 bij 15:26
Gnoe
TNX Judith! However, last night’s combination of szechuan noodles with coconut cabbage wasn’t great. Separately they’re fine. The cabbage recipe is tasty and takes about 5 minutes to make, so maybe I’ll post that one for people always wondering what to do with cabbage! :)
zaterdag 25 juni 2011 bij 15:37
Leeswammes
Such a pity it wasn’t a success. Sometimes the tastes or textures just do’t go together. I never make cabbage myself, so I could use an inspiring recipe.
zaterdag 25 juni 2011 bij 15:28
Kate
Your meals look delicious! Your post also reminded me that I haven’t even done any rhubarb this year – the weather’s been so dismal that I just never thought about this spring-ish food.
I do rhubarb in a crumble. Any sort of mixed berry is nice, but I remember one that had a citrus-y base to it, not as sweet as a lot of crumbles but very nice with cream or custard. I think it was a Jamie Oliver recipe so it shouldn’t be hard to find if you’re interested. Have a good weekend!
zaterdag 25 juni 2011 bij 15:46
TheBookGirl
Thanks for the peek into your CSA box…I thought I knew just about every type of cabbage, but I have not seen the pointed variety before.
Does Ringo like to taste anything from the box, or just inspect the contents?
zaterdag 25 juni 2011 bij 21:14
Margot
I always enjoying coming here to see what you have been cooking and eating. Most of it is stuff I’ve never heard of and I love that. It’s always good to learn new things.
zaterdag 25 juni 2011 bij 22:11
Carol @ There's Always Thyme to Cook
Everything looks delicious. I love the soba noodles! Such a nice assortment you get from the CSA. I would love to be able to have a box like that each week, I need to look into it. I don’t know much about rhubarb but I did see somewhere a strawberry-rhubarb jam that looked lovely! Must have a nice sweet-tart flavor.
zondag 26 juni 2011 bij 09:39
Marg
I’d be happy to come to yours for dinner any night!
zondag 26 juni 2011 bij 14:46
Louise
I’ve never heard of garlic flowers before. I was intrigued as to what to do with them. That looks like them next to the lentil loaf, is it? Are they just garnish there? Do you eat them? I would maybe have thought that you would use them like garlic chives.
zondag 26 juni 2011 bij 19:40
Uniflame
Such lovely food ideas :) I am rather uninspired lately but I did make a different kind of sushi yesterday (will post about that next week for weekend cooking) that I never tried before and is very easy to make.
maandag 27 juni 2011 bij 01:49
Patti Smith
Fresh veggies are so beautiful!! You don’t even need flower arrangements! I’ve never had rhubarb…can you believe that??
maandag 27 juni 2011 bij 13:39
Beth F
Is it too late to make reservations for dinner?? Your menu plan sounds fabulous. I generally just make rhubarb sauce (cook it down with a bit of sugar and some spices) and we eat it like applesauce.
I can’t wait to see what I get in my CSA basket tomorrow.
woensdag 29 juni 2011 bij 12:36
(Diane)BibliophileBytheSea
All these great veggies, and some appetizing foods as well/ You cat is so cute!
vrijdag 1 juli 2011 bij 23:40
Gnoe
Thank you all for the rhubarb suggestions. in the end we just cooked it up to eat like apple sauce (yay Beth! ;).
@TheBookGirl: Ringo doesn’t really take a bite but he DOES a great job inspecting the contents (each and every week) and somehow endive always has his special interest. He’s a cutie!
@Carol: we’re really happy with our CSA too — when the season ends we’re at a loss because we have to decide what to buy by ourselves. ;)
@Marg & BethF: my door is always open! :) Would be fun to have dinner together. :)
@Louise: there are several things you can do with garlic flowers, but we haven’t been very adventurous yet — we just baked them. They’re quite nice! I believe they’re more common in Chinese food?
@Uniflame: looking forward to your sushi recipe this weekend. :)
@Patti: I *can* believe that! Until we got it in our CSA I never bought it myself either. ;)
@ Bibliophilebythesea: it’s probably ‘not done’ to say I think Ringo is cute too?! ;)