So I’m driving home last night listening to a food show on the radio, and they’re talking about how to liven up summer salads. One of the ideas was to add grains. Great idea! When I got home, I made a salad wrap with lots of our farm lettuce and spinach, some leftover brown rice, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘spinach’
15 Jun
CSA Share for 2011 Week One
Week One is finally here! My son and I had a great visit with our farmers at pickup last night, and the farm looks so good. I cannot believe the cherry tomatoes are planted and already flowering, AND I even saw a tiny cherry tomato starting. In our share this week: spinach green leaf lettuce [...]
28 Nov
Crockpot Greens and Beans
This greens and beans dish is a staple in our house over the fall and winter months because it uses up our “carefully”-frozen greens at the rate of a bunch a week. I was inspired by Farmer Mike’s sausage, beans and greens recipe in a newsletter from years ago, and adapted it for the crockpot. [...]
23 Jun
CSA Share for 2010 Week Two
Today’s share is similar to last week’s, with the addition of bok choy: Haikurei turnips lettuce another big bunch of spinach garlic scapes big head of bok choy pick your own herb bunch Seeing all that spinach made it easy for me to decide to blanch and freeze all my leftover spinach from Week One. [...]
16 Jun
CSA Share for 2010 Week One
The early spring here made for a good pickup this week. This week’s share consists of: Haikurei turnips lettuce big bunch of spinach garlic scapes one dozen eggs pick your own herb bunch Tonight I cut off the tops of the turnips and put them in a bag, and stored the turnips in a separate [...]
