Pretty, pretty food

CSA Share #8

What happened to my picture?

I swear I took a picture of my CSA share yesterday, but it is somehow not on my camera/phone.  Hmmmm.

It has been a busy day.  Fitting ending for a busy week.  I'm wiped out now.

Spent the day cooking.  And cooking.  And cooking.  Didn't take photos of everything, but here are some of the delicacies.

Fried green tomatoes from my garden.  These were freaking awesome.

Two batches of pickles being fermented.  CSA cukes.  

Beans and onions with bacon bits.

Cole slaw from the giant cabbage in the CSA box.

It was a bacon-y kind of day.  I wrapped some bacon around slices of the other half of the giant cabbage and baked it in the oven.  I cooked the onions and beans with bacon.  Then, I fried up a package of chicken legs in the bacon fat.  Oh, yes, I did.

Aside from the dishes above, I made some hard boiled eggs, chopped up some veggies, and peeled and sliced up beets, which are now bubbling away on the stove.  Speaking of which, I should probably go check on them. I may have made something else, but my brain is foggy and I can't remember.

Have a good week, people.

Colorful share this week

Giant Cauliflower!

CSA share #5

Contained this enormous cauliflower,

So, I made this cauliflower gratinée.  I guess I fail at being a vegan.  

Oh, well.

Help! There are veggies exploding out of my fridge!

That's how I felt this weekend, so I decided to do something about it.  Most of yesterday, and a good part of today have been taken up with prepping, cooking, and storing a bunch of food.

First, I made a bunch of spring rolls (my new favorite treat) with avocado, mango, lettuce & our own garden's mint leaves.

This one had some issues, so I decided to gobble it up first.

Then I made a brown rice & bean, tex-mex kind of salad.

But- to use up the bulk of those exploding veggies, I made veggie fritters for the second time in a month.  These are definitely NOT low cal, but they are soooooo yummy.

I took a bunch of kohlrabi, some carrots, some broccoli, some green beans, some snap peas, some parsley, an onion, garlic scapes, and possibly some other veg that I've forgotten.  I chopped up a giant bowl full of veggies and then ran them through the food processor in several batches.  A couple batches I pureed pretty well, then I left a couple of the batches a little more chunky.  I poured those in a mesh strainer over the sink and pressed them to drain out some of the fluid.  

I put the pureed veggies in a big glass bowl, and mixed in enough eggs and gluten free baking mix and almond meal to make it stick together and look like this.

Then I poured some olive oil in the frying pan and let it heat up a bit.  Then I dropped scoops of the batter into the pan and flattened them out with the back of the spatula and fried them until they were dark brown on both sides.  These are very delicious, especially with a little Goddess Dressing drizzled on top.

To placate the picky people, I also made a pot of my homemade chicken noodle soup.  It does smell really tasty.

I also washed, chopped and bagged 4 heads of lettuce for easy use in salads.  Now I'm tired and don't feel like doing anything else!  Lol!

Pretty good start to the new season

We've had a good early growing season around here, so the produce is looking amazing fairly early in the CSA season.

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4
I have never seen such a huge kohlrabi in my life.  Looks like more  veggie fritters are on the menu!