Simply In Season calls this “Weed Soup” in the recipe notes. It’s a great way to use up CSA leftovers!
Sesame Garlic Glaze for Meat and Greens
June 9, 2010 By 6 Comments
This is a recipe from From Asparagus to Zucchini that I found last year when I was searching for a bok choy recipe. Before I realized that you can use glazes like this for any type of green or stir fry or meat. After taking a few classes at my CSA, I realized that a couple of glazes / stir fry sauces / salad dressings in your back pocket can make very efficient (and delicious!) use of most any vegetable that comes your way. This has become one of our favorites.
Top 10 Things to Do with Kale
May 4, 2010 By 41 Comments
Ah, the dreaded kale. Are YOU wondering how to cook kale? The first year I did a CSA (community supported agriculture, where you purchase a share and get 1-2 bags of vegetables each week from a farm) I had no idea what anything was. There was a large chalkboard indicating how much of each thing you were supposed to pick up. Luckily it was listed in order, so by process of elimination I could determine what the mystery vegetables were. {Read More}
Fitness Friday: Kale Chips
February 26, 2010 By 15 Comments
So, for the longest time I’ve wanted to make kale chips, I just never got around to it. Lately the kale in my winter CSA has been a bit on the dry side, so I figured now would be the perfect time to give it a try. I’ve read many variations on the recipe, instructions to bake from 350F to 450F, 10-15 minutes. Sprinkle with oil and salt. Various kinds of oils or salt. My first attempt was with Pam {Read More}
Whole Beet Skillet
February 7, 2010 By 4 Comments
I used to think I hated beets. Turns out I just don’t like canned beets in those weird jelly-like slices. When I started getting them in my CSA, I’d steam them when I made rice. The juice made the rice a pretty pink, and when they were steamed they didn’t have the funny taste I remembered from my childhood. For this recipe from Simply in Season, I didn’t have the greens (in the store they’re sold without them), so I {Read More}
Rutabaga and Greens Fritatta (Dark Days Challenge)
January 17, 2010 By 1 Comment
For this week’s Dark Days Challenge, I decided that I had better start using all the rutabagas that I’ve been amassing from my winter CSA. I started by looking through the recipes that Eater’s Guild had sent me. In the interest of full disclosure, I should state that DH was highly skeptical. He hates rutabagas and turnips, or so he claims. So he did go out and buy very un-local, un-environmentally friendly salmon and made it in his smoker thing {Read More}
Dark Days Challenge: Honey Baked Chicken, Collards, and Apples & Squash
January 7, 2010 By 7 Comments
Can I just say, this was the most delicious meal I’ve had in awhile? This Dark Days Challenge thing is harder than I thought it would be. Before I started this challenge, I thought I had the eating local thing down pat. What I didn’t realize was, how very hard it is to have every. single. ingredient local. So many times, the sides are mostly local, but the meat isn’t. Or the meat is, but the sides aren’t. Or I {Read More}
Dark Days Challenge: Fiery Chicken and Greens
December 20, 2009 By Leave a Comment
WARNING: This recipe not for the faint of heart or weak of colon. I decided to combine two challenges today. My blogger friend FJ, whose blog is www.flawlessfitnessbook.com, asked me to create a meaty dish with some sort of high-water content vegetable, preferably spicy. His audience is a bunch of hard-core bodybuilders (although, I love his style of writing and find his advice just as helpful for a regular old person trying to lose weight and get more fit). I {Read More}
Chicken Vegetable Soup
November 27, 2009 By 6 Comments
While the recipe in Simply in Season merely calls for a 3 pound whole chicken, I knew that this was the perfect recipe for a stewing chicken. Stewing chickens are usually tough old birds and are very inexpensive, even when they are the organic free range variety that I get from the farm where I have my milk share. When I purchased two of them, my farmer said “you do know those are stewing chickens, right?” I said, “of course!” {Read More}
Greens in Peanut Sauce
October 31, 2009 By 2 Comments
From time to time, people tell me that they love the Simply in Season cookbook, but they don’t know what to make from it. Some of the recipes scare them, so they are glad that I’m doing this project so they can see how the dish turns out. Greens in Peanut Sauce is one of those recipes that I tried almost as soon as I bought the book. I had just returned from Malawi and was used to the flavor {Read More}
