Friday, November 9, 2012

recipe update: vegetable edition


On a meal-time note: As it is already well into November and most of what I have been eating is going out of season, I was delighted when my pal Sylvi asked if I would like to split a Community Sustainable Agriculture box (I am 78% sure that is what CSA stands for) for six weeks in November-December. Obviously, I said absolutely, as it means we get to go every week and pick up a milk-crate sized parcel of locally grown organic produce to split. My haul this week:

one ginormous acorn squash (any suggestion as to what to do with it?)
two large red apples
a bunch of mustard-leaf lettuce
a bunch of regular red lettuce
three parsnips
a bunch of red and green kale

This is lovely because it means I get to creatively build my dinners (my lunches are pretty much nonexistent and breakfast is always eggs on toast or jammy yogurt) around whatever comes in the box. And I don't have much experience cooking Autumnul/Winter vegetables yet.

This recipe is what I am trying out tonight from Food & Wine: Kale with Garlic and Oven-Roasted Parsnips.*

If you have any favorites of your own with any of the above vegetables, or squash or potatoes or kale or salads, email them to me and I will try them out!

*The wonderful thing about the internet is being able to type in a handful of ingredients and come up with delicious recipes when you don't know what to cook!

4 comments:

  1. About the acorn squash -
    Cut in half - end to end. Remove seeds & stuff.
    Place cut side down in pan with 1/2 water.
    Bake at 350 for 30 minutes.
    Turn right side up and put 1- 2 Tbl. butter and 1 - 2 Tbl. brown sugar in the cavity and bake for another 30 minutes. Delecious and nutritious.

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    1. That's 1/2 inch of water in bottom of the pan.

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  2. Close. Community Supported Agriculture. Good for you in identifying even what is in the box. That is an enjoyable challenge for us. Have fun.

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  3. Oh fun! I didn't know you and Sylvi started a CSA. And that recipe sounds oh-so-yummy. Maybe I'll have to try it when I am home over break...

    much love,
    j.

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