Country Cookin'

So I finally did something with all that squash of mine! I got the recipe from "Cookin' Southern Vegetarian Style". It has the zucchini, summer squash, mystery squash, tomatoes (also from the box), onions, margarine, and breadcrumbs. Come to think of it, there wasn't even any salt and pepper in it but it was so flavorful. I made some couscous to go along with it because it was in the cupboard and I was lazy. It was a nice and light dinner so I made dessert too! From the same cookbook I made Peach Cobbler with my white peaches. It was super easy and good but I think I like the cinnamon/crumb oat type cobbler topping better. This one was more like a sweet cake batter. The white peaches were good but actually I would have preferred a less sweet, more tart yellow peach in this recipe. I also stuck some grapes in the kids lunches. My son said "Those grapes are small but sweet!". All in all, I am happy with today's usage of the produce and have tons of leftovers for lunches tomorrow.

The Second Delivery!

I upgraded to the 4 person box for the extra fruit but I need to make sure I use all of the extra veggies!! At first it didn't seem like too much more until I had to stand on a chair to get it all in one picture together. So there are 4 different kinds of lettuce, red leaf, romaine, and two baby greens. There is a bunch of squash, summer, zucchini, and another of the mystery kind from last week. Beautiful tomatoes, cucumbers, grapefruit, lemons, limes, avocados, red onions, baby carrots, 4 ears of corn (yea I get a whole ear this time!) white peaches, apples and the cutest little green grapes that are super sweet! Wish me luck- I have some cooking to do-

Pluots, Plums, and Lettuce- Oh My!

My internet was down for the past few days so I will play catch up in this post.

I cut up a plum for my daughter's lunch, nothing too exciting but she loved it! My son got the pluot.

I made some Knish from "vegan with a vengeance" and used the lettuces for the salad. MMM they were yummy but turning on that oven was a mistake! It ended up 89 degrees in the house and I gave in a turned the air conditioning on!!

That is it so far! I am going through my cookbooks to see what I can do with all the rest.

BBQ Corn

For dinner last night we bbq'd corn (from the box of produce), some yams with maple cinnamon margarine, and garlic bread. All of the recipes for the bbq items are from Steven Raichlen's fantastic book "How to Grill". Most of the book is meat, poultry, and fish but there is a nice section on veggies with great pictures and instructions. Anyhow, I substituted vegan margarine for butter where needed and omitted the cheese for the bread. I added a bit of nutritional yeast to give it a cheesy flavor but it would still be yummy without it. The Yams were the BEST I have ever had! Fluffy, smoky, and just delicious with the maple cinnamon margarine-WOW! The corn was perfection. I love the way it pops right into your mouth. The veggies were enough for the adults but the kids wanted some vegan bbq riblets from Morningstar Farms. I also made some fried okra and some boiled okra. Both recipes from Cookin' Southern Vegetarian Style by Ann Jackson. I am thinking of upgrading to the larger size box when this month's deliveries are done. We have eaten most of the fruit already and could have used the extra ear of corn last night.

Mystery Squash

The first veggie I used was one of the mystery squash. I made Isa Chandra Moskowitz's Scrambled Tofu from her book "Vegan with a Vengeance". I didn't have any mushrooms so I cubed up one of the squash instead. I also added some Soyrizo and made a yummy breakfast burrito with some refried beans, soy cheese (follow your heart mozzarella is the only one I can stand), salsa, and avocado. My kids didn't feel like a burrito though so they just had toast with their scrambled tofu. Honestly, I couldn't really taste the squash since it was mixed in with so many other ingredients but my kids couldn't either so I guess this was a good way to get some squash down their throats!

The First Delivery

This is my first box of produce from Garden of Eden Organics. I was so excited when I first opened it up and started pulling the fabulous fruits and veggies from it. It seemed neverending! A huge head of red leaf lettuce, a bag of spring salad mix, green onions, the most BEAUTIFUL basil, cilantro,a zucchini, yellow squash, two green squash I don't know the name of yet (anybody?), a big bag of grape tomatoes, pluots, apples, plums, white peaches, red grapes, and a head of garlic. Right off the bat we chopped up a peach, pluot, and apple. My super picky son LOVED the peach and pluot which was a welcome surprise to his normal reaction to new things. I will try to post how I use the rest of my haul throughout the week.