Sugar Snap Peas and Radishes
Compliments of Whole Foods, this recipe serves 6 and is good warm or cold, pairing well with roast lamb, ham, or fish. (more…)
Category: Recipies
Summer Squash Strata
This lasagna-like dish can be made with any of your summer squashes and makes a great addition to any 4th of July party. From the cookbook “Simply Organic”. Serves 12.
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Sautéed Hakurei Turnips With Turnip Greens
Japanese baby turnips are tender, sweet, and juicy as can be. By taking advantage of both their leaves and their bulbs, this easy and delicious recipe from seriouseats.com requires very few other ingredients, allowing the turnip flavor to shine through. Because the cooking process is divided into two steps (blanching and sautéing), the turnip bulbs come out beautifully browned, while the greens stay plump and tender. Serves 4 as a side dish. (more…)
Southern-Style Collard Greens
There are many delicious ways to cook collard greens, but this is best-known way to do it in the South – low and slow in a stockpot (or slow cooker) with plenty of bold, smoky ingredients to amp up the flavor of the greens. This recipe from Southern Living Magazine takes a few hours to simmer, but only requires a few minutes of hands-on cooking time. Serves 10-12. (more…)
Kohlrabi Fritters
If you’ve still got those funny looking bulbs staring you down on your counter, here’s a new take on kohlrabi. I’ll admit that for 6 years of the CSA, I never dared try them. This recipe made me a convert. They will never go on the swap table again! (more…)
Shrimp and Avocado Salad
Found on Taste of Home, this gorgeous shrimp and avocado salad has such authentic flavor, you’ll think you’re sitting at a beachside cantina in Acapulco! Serves 4. (more…)
Spring Garden Soup
Another great soup recipe from The Victory Garden Cookbook by Marian Morash. It serves 4-6. Use 2 leeks (white and light green parts only) in lieu of scallions. For herbs, parsley, thyme, or tarragon is recommended. (more…)
Zucchini Butter
If Farmer John’s predictions come true, we may be in for more summer squash so here is a simple recipe for making Zucchini Butter. While the recipe as is yields about 2 cups, you can halve the recipe and make less. Give it a try if you have already made your fair share of breads, muffins, and gratins. (more…)
Roasted Sunchokes
This recipe, found on allrecipes.com is an easy way to cook these vegetables. Sunchokes (aka Jerusalem artichokes) are starchy tubers like potatoes and turnips. When roasted, the skin becomes flaky and the flesh becomes tender, but the taste of a sunchoke is slightly nutty and sweet. (more…)
Tuna Cabbage Salad
Here is a Tuna Cabbage Salad recipe submitted by one of our CSA members. It comes together quickly if you have a mandolin slicer, and can be prepared a day in advance. (more…)