A big part of my life is food. It's what led me to gain about 75 lbs with my pregnancy; helped me lose 35 through Weight Watchers; helped me fuel my Triathlons, Half-Marathons and day to day activities. I read about food. I think about food. I love food. I love healthy, good food. I love knowing who grows and harvests my food. That is why I'm a CSA member. Community Supported Agriculture for those of you who aren't familiar. It's a way of buying a "share" of interest in a farm's harvest. Basically I pay a larger sum of money up front for weekly boxes of locally grown, organic, happy produce. It's awesome. My son learns where food comes from. We learn what to do with kholrabi and we create friendships with the farmers and fellow shareholders. Overall, it's an old fashioned hippie fun time!
Last week I made a lovely summer lasagna:
Leftover roasted eggplant, homemade tomato sauce with fresh basil, homemade pesto, onions, zucchini and summer squash, oven ready lasagna noodles and light sprinkling of parmesan cheese. Layer all of that and bake, covered in a 375 degree oven until the noodles are cooked. (about 40 minutes) I made this in a loaf pan so I had just enough for a few work lunches. DELISH.
On to this week's harvest:
Lettuce
Arugula
Green Bunching Onion
Collard Greens
Beets with Beet Greens
Salad Radishes
Summer Squash
Cucumbers
Basil
Kohlrabi
Radicchio -- probably just Tuesday as we wait for some more maturity in the rest of the row.
Small bunch of loose flowers
What am I going to do with all of this? I'm not sure yet but a few things that come to mind are beets and beet greens with nutritional yeast sauce, kholrabi hashbrowns and eggs for a "breakfast for dinner night"; oven roasted radicchio with balsamic and olive oil, sauteed collard greens with baked potato, yogurt and fresh herbs, and my personal favorite, an homage to my Grammy Stevens, Grammy Blake and my Mom....
Cucumbers with salt and/or Salad Seasoning.
Like most family traditions we conciously and unconciously pass down, someday I will open my own vehicle's glove box and find a salt shaker..for those times when we just can't wait until we get home to eat a cucumber, fresh from the ground.
I make this beet hummus recipe often, and I *love* it. It's one of the few recipes I actually use regularly!
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YUM thanks for that! I will certainly try it!
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