Eating and living locally . . . mindfully . . . simply.
So I was standing in line at CSA pickup tonight STARVING. For breakfast I had a half cup of granola and some raw milk. Lunch was a leftover piece of grilled KFC and about half a cup of leftover vegan chili from lunch out the other day. I’ve been eating crappy the past few days as I never did get around to meal planning and have had some late nights at work. Pizza crossed my mind . . .
Last week since I was out of state I gave my CSA share for the week to someone else. So, I had the unique experience of going to the farmer’s market and buying whatever I wanted. Ha! I knew I would make this soup, since I usually only get one fennel bulb at a time at the CSA and this requires three.
Now that I’m trying to wrap up Simply in Season, I’m coming across recipes that I wasn’t too interested in making last time I cracked it open. Great Green Vegetable Pasta, with its use of blended up cottage cheese (a technique I used before but don’t recall which recipe), was one of them. So I decided to wing a variation on my own.
This is one of those recipes that is great for using up whatever vegetables you have from your garden or CSA and lets the taste of the vegetables come through.
It feels great to be back in the kitchen! After a hiatus from Simply in Season, I’m motivated to tackle the remaining 54 recipes. This one is super fast, cheap, and tasty! Best of all, it features some of summer’s best vegetables.
Last Saturday I took a class on Simple Cooking. We had delicious beans, rice, and coleslaw dishes. I was inspired to find the local store that someone said had a great selection of dried beans and lentils. Tonight I dug out my copy of Extending the Table: A World Community Cookbook and decided to try a variation of the recipe for East Indian Spinach and Lentils.
I remember the first time I got a Napa cabbage from my CSA. It was HUGE! And what the heck would I do with it? I used some in stir fry, some in salads; it’s really quite versatile. And this Asian salad is perfect for potlucks!
This year we have been getting a lot of spinach with our CSA share. I don’t remember getting this much in the past; I think we used to get a small bunch with the root attached on occasion. But this year I’ve gotten a pound and .6 pounds of cut spinach the past two weeks. So I decided to revisit this recipe, which is a favorite of our CSA community.
I had a bag of spinach to use up and no idea what to do with it. I thought hmm, pasta sounds good tonight. So I searched the internet and found my inspiration from Aggie’s Kitchen.
I love it when a recipe tastes so good you can’t believe it’s healthy!
