CSA box #13 includes: various round shaped summer squash, Zestar and edmond russet apples, green beans, cantaloupe, beefsteak tomatoes, bibb lettuce, red beets, bi-color sweet corn, mixed cherry tomatoes, sweet peppers, pickling cucumbers, 2 large cucumbers, shallots, Dutch kale, leeks, blue potatoes, and carrots.
First I'm going to wash and freeze the kale for use in breakfast smoothies, as usual. The beet greens are not in good enough condition to consume this time. The melons, carrots, and large cucumbers will be cut up and refrigerated for snacking. I'll wash the cherry tomatoes and just snack on them too. I'll boil the beets and (I assume?) pickle the pickles for snacking. I'm going to taste the peppers and apples before deciding for sure what to do with them because if they happen to taste really good plain, I don't want to waste them by cooking them. An email from the farm said the peppers might be sweet or spicier and we wouldn't know in advance. If they're spicy, I feel like I have more options. I used the last sweet peppers in place of red bell peppers in recipes and that worked fine too.
I'm planning to make an apple crisp this weekend in honor of the start of September and also having apples. I already made vanilla ice cream base yesterday to go with it; I just have to run it through the ice cream maker while the apple crisp bakes.
I think I'll make this to use up at least some of the new summer squash because I don't know what else to do with it and I can make this from things I have on hand. I don't have red lentils at the moment, but I do have cooked crowder peas in the fridge that I've been slowly consuming for the last week and would like to use up.
Another way to use up summer squash. I might want to try making these in the air fryer rather than oven or pan. I could also try using the crowder peas in place of cooking some chickpeas for these. They have a similar enough texture I think.
(Clockwise from top: cucumber slices, carrot zucchini fritter, brown basmati rice, barbati aloo subzi, cashew yogurt)
To go alongside the fritters (tomorrow night?) and use up the green beans and some potatoes.
This sounds really good, and I haven't had a breakfast burrito in years. An idea for using up some of our tiny potatoes. I also have some Ezekiel whole grain wraps in the freezer that need to be used. I think I'd want to make some vegan breakfast sausages to include too (linked recipe is really good and pretty quick and easy).
Summer Corn with Green Chile Cream (Vedge)
Because there's a bunch of corn, plus onions and some poblanos remaining from last week's box. I'm going to try just dicing and lighting sauteeing the entire thing in a pan this time because I don't want to use the whole oven and the pan should give it all a nice sear.
The CSA box unexpectedly came about 12 hours later than usual last night, so I had to make dinner from what we already had on hand. I ended up making a vegetarian version of these Disney cheeseburger pods (because I've wanted to try this for awhile) alongside some garlic bok choy. The drink is a strawberry Jarritos I split with Simran. The bok choy was a bit bitter, though that is likely due to the bok choy sitting in my fridge for the last week and not being at its freshest. The cheeseburger filling was fantastic. I used a package of Beyond Beef in place of the ground beef. I don't buy Pillsbury biscuits, so I used my usual recipe for buttermilk biscuits (substituting unsweetened cashew yogurt thinned with water for the buttermilk because I didn't have buttermilk on hand), which is great but not ideal for this. They tasted good, but there was so much bread material that the pods gave me and Simran stomach aches. Also I don't know how I feel about steamed bread, let alone steamed biscuit. It seemed fully cooked, but the lack of browning was weird. If I wanted to make a weird cheeseburger-flavored meal again, I'd try it with wonton wrappers and make them into potstickers or something to reduce the ratio of bread material to filling. But it would probably taste better to just cook some Beyond Meat burgers and eat them on a normal bun. Those things aren't particularly healthy, but they're as tasty as any meat burger I can remember.
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