Archive for the ‘Vegetables’ Category
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
This recipe for butter braised cabbage was a quick and easy, but not very good side dish. All I could taste was the butter; it just overwhelmed the cabbage. I like butter, but not that much. Shaun wasn't a fan either. We won't be repeating this ...
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Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
This week's box:
Butter Tomatoes-Sungold Cherry
Lettuce-Baby Heads
Turnips
Squash-Farmers Choice
Squash-Farmers Choice
Cabbage-Red
Cabbage-Green
Beets-Red Ace
Raspberries
Plums
Peaches
Cherries
They were short on butter this week, but got in a small harvest of gorgeous little yellow cherry tomatoes that they handed out as replacements this week, and I'll get the butter next week :-) ...
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Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
Tonight's dinner was mostly a selection of great roasted veggies from my CSA box - beets, cauliflower, broccoli, patty pan squash, and one Italian squash that I missed throwing into the chicken stew. I also made a little pan of chicken piccata, skipping the flouring step, and just putting ...
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Monday, July 19th, 2010
This incredibly tasty meal was a result of me looking into the fridge, grabbing a bunch of things, thinking vaguely about bruschetta chicken and my Italian vegetable saute and the fact that bacon improves just about everything, and ended up with this great stew-like concoction.
Italian Chicken and Vegetable Stew
Serves 2 ...
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Sunday, July 18th, 2010
This was a great easy meal! I used eggs and potatoes from my CSA boxes with some thinly sliced pork chops to make a balanced meal with the side of green salad we had.
Breakfast Skillet
Serves 4
1 lb meat of your choice, cut into small bite sized pieces (I used ...
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Thursday, July 15th, 2010
This week's CSA Box has:
Oregano
Lettuce-Baby Heads
Squash-Farmers Choice (pattypan this time)
Squash-Farmers Choice (Italian this time)
Potatoes-Gold
Cauliflower
Broccoli
Beets-Red Ace
Fruit boxes start up next week, and tomatoes should be coming in soon. Yay!
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Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
This recipe comes from Cooking Light. We thought this was only okay. The sauce was tasty, but too thin to stick to the chicken, even though I made a bit of a roux before adding the garlic and liquid to the pan to help with that. The ...
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Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
This recipe is inspired by many similar ones out there. Many of them include onion, which I didn't bother with. I added more garlic instead :-D Be sure you use low sodium chicken broth. I didn't, and it was rather salty. Other than that, ...
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Monday, July 12th, 2010
An easy dinner for a Monday evening - flank steak seasoned generously with Montreal steak seasoning, seared on both sides in a cast iron skillet over medium high heat then moved to a 425 degree oven to finish cooking; a pound of little button mushrooms washed, seasoned with garlic powder, ...
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Sunday, July 11th, 2010
Tonight we had some bratwursts and brussels sprouts. I usually roast them, but after trying baby turnips cooked this way, I wanted to try it with brussels sprouts too, and it turned out quite nicely.
Quick Braised Brussels Sprouts
Serves 2
1 lb brussels sprouts, trimmed and outer dark leaves ...
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