A Wonderful Fun!!!! Box this week…..
Peas Shoots-Keep these little beauties in the window on a dinner plate and give them a drink from time to time. Snip a few for delicious pea flavor added to sandwiches, top a salad, or garnish soup. We eat them as a fresh snack!
Garlic Scapes-These are the flower heads cut early from the tops of the garlic we planted last Fall. Removing these heads before they develop ensure a larger more flavorful garlic bulb. Chop and use as you would use garlic in your meal preparation. Great garlic taste.
Italian Large Leaf Parsley-The most flavorful “robust” parsley flavor of all the parsley. Keep in the fridge in a glass of water or sealed plastic bag.
Romaine Lettuce-Great in a salad mix with the other wonderful greens this week. Fellow CSA member Chris Lemke mentioned to me last week they grill it! Sounds delicious.
Spinach-The last of the Spring planting.
Pac Choi Assorted Mix- 3 varieties all bagged together in your box. We are really enjoying these wilted down in chick broth or vegetable broth with a bit of soy sauce.
Asian Green Mix-2 varieties here. Yukina Savoy is the thick, crinkled dark savoyed leaves. Vitamin Green is the smooth brilliantly green leaves. Packaged in your box in the same bag. Both are in the brassica family and have a mild flavor. Delicious steamed or in a stir fry but also offer a unique addition to fresh salads.
Spring Turnips-We love them raw with a bit of salt, sliced thin on our salads or a surprise in a sandwich wrap. They sauté well in a mix with the above Pac Choi and/or Asian Greens.
Red Rover Radishes- Last of the radishes until Fall.
I’m having a bit of trouble getting the recipes in the recipe section……they keep disappearing! It is that cut and paste thing! I’ll get it…..Anyway I can’t say enough about Pinterest for a quick reference for recipes and I have noticed there are many blogs with weekly postings for CSA box cooking on the internet.
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Found a great recipe that used many of the ingredients in the 2nd box… A Chinese chicken salad with red chile dressing (found on Food Network). I used a lot of the pac choi stems instead of napa cabbabe, also tossed in the rest of the spinach, we grilled a few chicken breasts to throw on top. It was delicious, lots of chopping, but worth it!
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Pasta-with-Garlic-Scape-Pesto-395769
I made this yesterday with the garlic scapes and it was delicious and easy. You can buy already shelled pistachios in bulk from Pierce’s, 1/3 cup was less than $2.