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From Eating Well magazine, this recipe is easy and colorful. Feel free to add whatever other summer share veggies you have. If you have a few small, over-ripe tomatoes, chop and add them, too! Serves 6 as a side dish. (more…)
This salad, found on the drizzleanddip.com food blog, combines two of our favourite vegetables – the zucchini and the green bean. The crumbled blue cheese and chopped walnuts take it to another level. This salad only takes a few minutes to make. Work out quantities based on how many people you need to feed. (more…)
Zucchini Potato Fritters are a perfect easy meal that you can whip up any time for a satisfying breakfast, lunch or even a simple dinner in a pinch. This recipe, found on the Olga’s Flavor Factory food blog, is quick to make and doesn’t require much planning or prep work in advance. Yields about 25 fritters. (more…)
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…)
If you’re feeling like you have more squash than you know what to do with, here’s a great way to put them to use! Serves 4. (more…)
Ratatouille is a traditional French stewed vegetable dish originating in Nice, but popular among the entire Mediterranean coast. Mid-summer CSA shares will provide all you need for this delicious classic. Serves 4-6. (more…)
Welcome to Summer Squash season! As you may have noticed already, summer squash appears in a variety of shapes and colors, the most prevalent being the well-known green zucchini, the straight or crooked necked yellow squash, and the round, flat, often scalloped edge, patty pan squash. All these varieties are tender, warm-season vegetables that differ from their fall and winter cousins in that they are selected to be harvested while still immature. Thus, the entire vegetable, rind, flesh, and seeds, can be eaten. (more…)
From The Victory Garden Cookbook by Marian Morash, here’s a dessert recipe using squash that is fairly quick and yummy. Maybe this will bring the kids around to eating their veggies! The recipe is made in a 10-inch tube or bundt pan. (more…)
Found on Royal Rose’s radicchio.com, this recipe is easy, colorful, and readily combines some of our veggies this week. The recipe serves 6. (more…)
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…)