One item in last week’s produce box was a beet- not so pretty on the outside but brilliant on the inside and super nutritional as well. Just so happened that I was given an additional bag of beets a couple of days later. I was excited to have them but I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with them. I’ve made a lot of beet soup in the past few years but haven’t really explored much more with them. I’ve always been a fan of beets though, and it was time to branch out. [Read more...]
Salad with Our First Cherry Tomatoes
August 17, 2009 by ·
Our cherry tomatoes are finally turning red! The other day we made our first salad using them- I have to say, fresh picked cherry tomatoes are oh so delicious and satisfying; I’m already anticipating the next ripe bunch any day now. This salad was thrown together with a mix of our usual produce, offerings from our organic produce box and some wonderful from our garden. Just thought I’d share the idea with you, it’s always nice to have salad inspiration- mmmm vegetables! [Read more...]
Grape Almond Cilantro Salad
August 5, 2009 by ·
My friend Ellen is about to enter her first year of culinary school; a couple of years ago she started her blog- gogochicago as a way to track what she eats and cooks as well as recipes that she enjoys and creates. A while back she posted about her grape almond cilantro salad which appealed to me right away. [Read more...]
Kale Salad
July 30, 2009 by ·
Raw Kale?
I never thought to use raw kale for the base of a salad. I though it would surely be too tough to eat like that. Then I saw a post from Vegan Yum Yum, which is a really great vegan food blog (definitely check it out)! The other day her post called “BLT Salad” inspired me to make the first harvest of kale from our garden into a fresh raw salad. Although I didn’t end up following her recipe exactly, it was definitely not something that I would have put together without her idea. It was suggested to use a different type of kale than we are growing- Lacinato kale, which I have yet to try. The variety we are growing is a bit more common curly leaf kale. I thought i would try the idea out anyway. [Read more...]
