Here is a great salad idea, from Mariquita Farms and epicurious.com using fennel, radicchio, and romaine lettuce. If you don’t have romaine, use any green or red leaf lettuce. If you can’t find black grapes, use red grapes. Serves 4.
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This recipe uses many of the vegetables we will be getting this week! Stir frying is a versatile way to put your CSA veggies to good use. You can really substitute almost any other vegetable for the ones listed in this recipe and it will still turn out great. Use your imagination! For a vegetarian option, leave out the chicken, use tofu or other protein, and use vegetable stock.
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Here is a greens recipe, from CSA member Veronica Sidhu (author of Menus and Memories from Punjab: Meals to Nourish Body and Soul), using paneer cheese rather than lentils. It is one most Americans are familiar with from Indian restaurant dishes. Recipe may be halved or frozen. Yields 8 servings (4 cups greens without cheese cubes).
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Pesto is a great way to use the garlic scapes in our CSA shares! For ½ pound short pasta such as penne, add about 2 Tablespoons of pesto to cooked pasta and stir until pasta is well coated. You can also freeze your pesto for use later in the year – try freezing it in an ice cube tray to make small handy pesto portions.
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A CSA member, Julia Egan, sent us the following easy recipe for those yummy summer squash we are now beginning to savor. You can’t get much simpler.
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This is a delicious seasonal soup, served at Michael’s on the Hill restaurant in Waterbury, Vermont, close to Stowe. The recipe serves 6 but can easily be doubled and it freezes well.
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This simple soup is equally good hot or cold. You can readily omit the potatoes for a lighter version. A small dollop of sour cream or crème fraiche before serving is a nice complement to the soup. The recipe serves 4-6.
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Here’s a delicious recipe from the Simply Organic cookbook that combines onion and cabbage with precooked pork chops and a honey dijon sauce. Try it out!
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From the cookbook “Simply Organic”. If you have a mandoline to slice the vegetables thinly, all the better. You can also substitute broth instead of milk. It tastes better if made one day ahead.
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This recipe is from Mark Bittman who writes “The Minimalist” column in the New York Times. If you do not have any dried shiitake mushrooms, so you can use fresh shiitake mushrooms. Where the recipe calls for reserved mushroom water from the dried mushrooms, you can substitute chicken broth. Yields 4 servings.