CSA Box #12

CSA box #12 has arrived!  It contains:  Roma tomatoes, shishito peppers, green beans, sweet corn, bell peppers, edamame soybeans, Italian garlic, eggplant, sweet onions, poblano peppers, melons, Russian banana potatoes, crowder peas, broccoli, brussels sprouts, red beets, joi choi, and tomatilloes.  

First I'll wash and freeze the beet greens for use in breakfast smoothies.  I'll boil the beets and cut them up and put them in the fridge for eating alongside random meals.  I'll cut up and refrigerate the melon for snacking.  I'll steam the edamame and chill it for snacking later.  I'll boil the crowder peas in either water or vegetable stock for eating plain whenever.  One thing I've learned this summer is that I enjoy fresh beans that have been minimally cooked.

I'm also going to pre-measure and chop up some tomatoes, potatoes, onions, and bell peppers and freeze them for making sambar later.  It takes very little time to make when you've already got the vegetables chopped and portioned out and can just dump the entire container into the soup pot.  I can even use up the poblanos this way if I don't have enough jalapenos on hand.  It's a forgiving soup.

My neighbors have already agreed to take the shishito peppers, which I haven't enjoyed and they've never tried.  I'm going to ask if they want the tomatilloes and maybe the sweet onions and some corn too. 

 

Korean Eggplant Tacos with Kimchi Mayo (Vedge, pg. 171)

This is my constant plan for any eggplant.  It is my current favorite dish to eat.

Garlic Bok Choy

 Planning to make this with the joi choi to go alongside the eggplant tacos.

Shaved Brussels Sprouts

 

Seared French beans with caper bagna cauda (Vedge, pg. 97)

Assuming I still have capers.  I have to check.

 

Pasta Salad

To use up the broccoli but also the salad dressing in my pantry that's slated to expire next month.  

Vegan Hashbrown Waffles

I bought a waffle maker this week.  I want to try turning some of our farm potatoes into this.

 

Fresh Marinara

Because I have so many fresh tomatoes I don't know what to do with them all.  It's a good problem to have, but it's also a race against time. 

I saw this recipe for green bean fries and dip so I made it too.  I had fresh green beans though, so I fried them the same way I do squash blossoms.  It's not hard, but it's incredibly time consuming pan frying this many individual green beans because you can only put so many in the pan at one time.

I also made bananas foster and more vanilla ice cream (the base recipe linked here, minus eggs because I had none, and plus 1 tbs good vanilla extract).