Kate's Week 5 & 6!

I'm behind on posting, but also because I'm behind on cooking. Here's what our week 5 looked like:

Hot dog! We grilled those up on the 4th of July. 

We still haven't figured out what to do with the pickling cucumbers yet. The obvious answer would be to, well, make pickles, but we're not real sure how to do that, so they might go on salads instead. 

Week 6 looked a little something like this. 

So there's a theme here. Hen House really wants us to eat blueberries. Good thing we make green smoothies every morning with the little guys. I even talked Dave into trying smoothies to use up all of his blueberries.

I'm super pumped about more cheese, because, well, I love it. We haven't had the colby yet, so even better.

The cabbage and onions are a switch up from the previous weeks, so we'll find something delectable to do with them. Seems like there might be some cabbage rolls in the near future?

I'll keep you updated.
-Kate

Week 4 - Around the World Asia to Switzerland to Cuba

 

Kate picked up Week 4 for me and I found myself a bit overwhelmed with squash and greens!  The first night I decided to use up those two zucchini and some of those Asian ingredients I bought last week to make zucchini fritters, conveniently a recipe straight out of this month's Bon Appetit. www.bonappetit.com/recipes/2013/07/zucchini-fritters

I threw in some fresh chives and cilantro from my garden and fried them up in the sunflower oil from Week 1.  Dipping sauce included rice wine vinegar, soy sauce, sugar, and red pepper flakes.

 Tuesday night, I made a quick impromptu summer pasta dish with (believe it or not!) only ingredients I already had.  This included onions, cherry tomatoes from last week, corn, white beans, chopped up Swiss chard from this week, and a splash of white wine.

Topped my plate off with fresh basil from the garden.  Yum.

  
I gave Andrew the roast to cook to his own delight and he chose a Cuban pot roast from this recipe here: http://allrecipes.com/recipe/ropa-vieja-in-a-slow-cooker/ with Cuban style yellow rice: http://allrecipes.com/recipe/cuban-style-yellow-rice/

I can't take any credit for this one aside from pouring the water in the pot to cook the rice.  All Andrew!  And it was delicious. 

Also, no Cuban meal would be complete without mojitos!

Happy eating!
Michelle

Week 3 - Wrap it up

Sorry for the late post.  Week 3 delivered a sirloin - once again something else I have never made before! I also had eggs, more cherry tomatoes, subbed out something else to get squash, blueberries, and some lettuce.

Somehow, I got stuck on the idea of beef lettuce wraps, so instead of just using what the CSA provided, I went out and bought all the fixin's required for an asian dish - sesame oil, siracha, and rice wine vinegar: I already had soy sauce, and the "grocery store" at my parents provided me with hoisin sauce and minced ginger.  Now I was ready to use the steak and red leaf lettuce from HH.

I mashed up a couple of different recipes to come up with these, and boy were they tasty.  Extra siracha and red pepper flakes gave 'em some heat!  Topped them off with some julienne carrots to add some crunch.

Happy eating!
Michelle

Kate's week 4

Ok weather, you are seriously messing with my CSA vibe. But! check out the newest product in the CSA bags....flour: Ceresota flour from Newton, KS. Oh dear, what am I going to do with you? Maybe cookies? Maybe blueberry muffins? Recipes here: http://www.heckersceresota.com/recipes.html.

Got the roast, think it is going to be a Sunday dinner with the fam. Pot Roast dinner on Sundays is something my mom's family used to do when she was little, and we haven't eaten red meat in quite a while, but we've got it, so might as well enjoy the goodness.

Trying a new Good Natured Family Farm cheese: Cheddar Pepper. I am not a fan of spicy stuff, so we'll see if this pepper cheese is hot red peppery or...well normal black peppery. Honestly not a fan either way, but no judgment on the cheese until I try it. Cheese has a mysterious way of winning me over. I'll report back.

As for the blueberries and squash....they'll get eaten swiftly. The milk? Probably already gone.

-Kate