Ikea food

A couple months ago, Steve and I experienced Swedish meatballs in the Ikea food court for the first time, served with a heaping pile of mashed potatoes, gravy, and a side of lingonberry sauce. Delicious and cheap! We bought a bag of frozen meatballs, two packets of gravy, and a jar of lingonberry sauce to [...]

CSA box: Leeks, chard, arugula, and more.

In between making large amounts of food that can be frozen for later in preparation for the baby, we’ve been enjoying the fresh veggies and fruits from our CSA box.

On the plate: Garlic bread, Swiss chard sauteed and covered with buttered toasted breadcrumbs, and baked eggs with creamy leeks. Consensus was that Swiss chard is [...]

CSA Box: More greens

I’ve used up all the greens from our CSA box, just in time for Wednesday’s delivery!

Our box had some young, soft lettuce (I’m not very well versed in types of lettuces, so I have no idea what kind of lettuce it was). I chopped up one of the Fuji apples that came with the box [...]

CSA Box: Catching up

Now to catch up on CSA Box food photos!

This meal used up two items from my box: tokyo turnips and bok choy. I tried a turnip recipe where you braise the turnip in soy sauce, mirin (a sweet Japanese wine), sugar, and water, but totally overcooked them so they were really mushy. White rice and [...]

CSA Box: Many meals

I’m giving up on the day-by-day post idea, but still intend to post photos and formal and informal “recipes” or meal descriptions as I work through our CSA box contents.

Using up the remaining items from our first CSA box, I made potato-leek soup using a recipe from America’s Test Kitchen Family Cookbook with Farmer’s Market [...]

CSA Box 2 arrives

We picked up our second CSA produce box on Wednesday night. I put everything away and didn’t take a picture, but here’s a list of what we got:

3 Pink Lady apples
3 navel oranges
small bunch of romaine lettuce
bunch of crocodile spinach
bunch of red kale (less than last week but still generous)
baby bok choy
small head of Wakefield [...]

CSA Days 12 and 14: Turnip bisque, salad, and sausage-potato-kale soup

We went on a mini-vacation and when I got back, I started using up the rest of our CSA produce box.

First up on Sunday night: Turnip bisque, which was an easy soup of simmered sweet potato, turnip, and leek, all pureed together with crispy shaved-and-baked turnip strips on top from the Eatwell Farm newsletter. I [...]

CSA Day 8: Broccoli “taco”

Yesterday was one of those “eat everything we have in the fridge before leaving for the weekend” days. In the fridge: Half a cup of leftover steamed broccoli from our produce box. Also, fixings for salad, but I wasn’t in a salad mood. I scrounged a soft corn tortilla leftover from our Tuesday church small [...]

CSA Days 4 – 7: Salad, broccoli, pasta, and baby bok choy

Day 4: Sunday

For lunch, I made another quick salad with produce box lettuce and mushrooms and oranges from the Farmer’s Market and some pieces of leftover steak. I made a basic vinaigrette with olive oil, sugar, white wine vinegar, salt, pepper, and a dash of dried oregano. Then I made grilled cheese sandwiches with bread [...]

CSA Day 3: Spinach, salad, and salmon

Day 2 passed with more mandarin oranges and the last Pink Lady apple. Saturday night, I made a late dinner with more goodies from our Eatwell Farm box.
First, I spent half an hour rinsing off the polar bear spinach. Here’s a close-up picture of what I was working with:

I found it best to tear off [...]