My first CSA dinner! We just did a half share from a near-by farm, and wow, did my first box surprise me. A great deal of super yummy veggies and fruits! The girls polished off the (more) strawberries while I scrubbed the spinach. I topped it with a just picked tomato and some pecans, craisins, and asiago. A great salad for the summertime!
My brother, his wife and baby daughter were able to visit me on this day! We were planning on picking out a meal and shopping together, but since things rarely work according to schedule, I picked up some salmon while I was out running errands. It ended up being a salmon night, and lucky for me, the sopas filling from the night before tasted absolutely wonderful on the salmon portions! I scattered lemon oregano feta on top, which really added a great taste. Yum!!
Strawberry season is upon us! My girls and I searched the fields for strawberries and came away with quite a few! We had a whole bunch, and since we were to attend a graduation party in the next couple of days, I decided to do up some desserts. Unfortunately I didn't take pictures of all my creations, but my brother and I were able to turn out a
strawberry tiramisu, strawberry rhubarb tartlets, and
strawberry lemonade bars. The girls also ate plenty as snacks and breakfasts.
Sopas! I think it I came across the recipe in the latest Vegetarian Times mag. The sopas were these little "cakes" wiht a depression to hold some filling. I made my filling with zucchini and corn, as was the recipe they suggested on the following page. The filling was great! The sopas? Well, I don't know if I bought the right flour or not, seeing as my grocer's international aisle is a bit limited, and I thought I bought the right ingredient, but I may not have. The flour I purchased aws cornmeal, and I'm just not a fan of cornmeal. I never have been. I thought that since the meal was ground so fine, I would like it, but nope. Still looking for a good cornmeal recipe :D
Salmon is one of the few things DH and I will agree on, but unfortunately I'd love to douse mine with maple syrup or at least tamari!! For the sake of DH and his diet, we just did a plain salmon, but quite good). It was smattered with some garden herbs and salt and pepper.
Summer has arrived! Well, so says the calendar, but some kind of rainy season seems to have descended upon the northeast. I did have this on a sunny day, and even made a double batch for a picnic/BBQ my family was attending. This salad consisted of edamame, black beans, corn, fresh grape tomatoes and scallions. The seasoning had yummy grapeseed oil and a zing of cilantro.
After DH returned from the upright freezer commenting on the "mountain" of frozen broccoli back there I thought of my options. DH likes broccoli, but for some reason won't eat it while he's doing th Atkins diet. Weird, I know. And the girls eat raw broccoli but not cooked. Me? I don't even like broccoli! But since I was the one to buy it... And I'm not opposed to eating foods I don't like. I just haven't found the right way to prepare them, is my theory. As was the case with broccoli. I'd eat it in this soup anyday!! Which, probably translates to everyday, since we have so much broccoli. It's a mushroom and broccoli soup, from the cookbook "The Modern Vegetarian Kitchen" by Peter Berley. It has such a great earthy flavor and was easy to make. I think I found out how I will be usuin gup the "broccoli mountain".
This was a delicious (DELICIOUS) carmelized onion pizza. I can't rememebr where I found ther recipe; I remember seeing two that week, so I picked one. The onions were carmelized with some balsamic vinegar and the pizza was topped with... monterey jack? And calamata olives. I am definitely going to have to remember this one, it was so good!!
My first CSA dinner! We just did a half share from a near-by farm, and wow, did my first box surprise me. A great deal of super yummy veggies and fruits! The girls polished off the (more) strawberries while I scrubbed the spinach. I topped it with a just picked tomato and some pecans, craisins, and asiago. A great salad for the summertime!
My brother, his wife and baby daughter were able to visit me on this day! We were planning on picking out a meal and shopping together, but since things rarely work according to schedule, I picked up some salmon while I was out running errands. It ended up being a salmon night, and lucky for me, the sopas filling from the night before tasted absolutely wonderful on the salmon portions! I scattered lemon oregano feta on top, which really added a great taste. Yum!!
Strawberry season is upon us! My girls and I searched the fields for strawberries and came away with quite a few! We had a whole bunch, and since we were to attend a graduation party in the next couple of days, I decided to do up some desserts. Unfortunately I didn't take pictures of all my creations, but my brother and I were able to turn out a strawberry tiramisu, strawberry rhubarb tartlets, and strawberry lemonade bars. The girls also ate plenty as snacks and breakfasts.
Sopas! I think it I came across the recipe in the latest Vegetarian Times mag. The sopas were these little "cakes" wiht a depression to hold some filling. I made my filling with zucchini and corn, as was the recipe they suggested on the following page. The filling was great! The sopas? Well, I don't know if I bought the right flour or not, seeing as my grocer's international aisle is a bit limited, and I thought I bought the right ingredient, but I may not have. The flour I purchased aws cornmeal, and I'm just not a fan of cornmeal. I never have been. I thought that since the meal was ground so fine, I would like it, but nope. Still looking for a good cornmeal recipe :D
Salmon is one of the few things DH and I will agree on, but unfortunately I'd love to douse mine with maple syrup or at least tamari!! For the sake of DH and his diet, we just did a plain salmon, but quite good). It was smattered with some garden herbs and salt and pepper.
Summer has arrived! Well, so says the calendar, but some kind of rainy season seems to have descended upon the northeast. I did have this on a sunny day, and even made a double batch for a picnic/BBQ my family was attending. This salad consisted of edamame, black beans, corn, fresh grape tomatoes and scallions. The seasoning had yummy grapeseed oil and a zing of cilantro.
After DH returned from the upright freezer commenting on the "mountain" of frozen broccoli back there I thought of my options. DH likes broccoli, but for some reason won't eat it while he's doing th Atkins diet. Weird, I know. And the girls eat raw broccoli but not cooked. Me? I don't even like broccoli! But since I was the one to buy it... And I'm not opposed to eating foods I don't like. I just haven't found the right way to prepare them, is my theory. As was the case with broccoli. I'd eat it in this soup anyday!! Which, probably translates to everyday, since we have so much broccoli. It's a mushroom and broccoli soup, from the cookbook "The Modern Vegetarian Kitchen" by Peter Berley. It has such a great earthy flavor and was easy to make. I think I found out how I will be usuin gup the "broccoli mountain".
This was a delicious (DELICIOUS) carmelized onion pizza. I can't rememebr where I found ther recipe; I remember seeing two that week, so I picked one. The onions were carmelized with some balsamic vinegar and the pizza was topped with... monterey jack? And calamata olives. I am definitely going to have to remember this one, it was so good!!
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