It was my turn to go to the farm today to pick up the share and, well, I'm just overwhelmed with greens!
Here's the tally: 1 head of lettuce, 1 bowl spinach, 2 kohlrabi, 1 head bok choi, 4 squashes, 3 cucumbers, 6 beets with their greens, swiss chard, 1 bunch each of parsley and cilantro, 2 quarts of snap peas, 30 pods of fava beans and a quart of snow peas. I was supposed to get other herbs and 15 flowers but it just seemed like too much. Oh, and I got almost half a cup of mallow peas.
After extracting the mallow whites from the mallow peas, I made a salad and a stir fry for dinner. The salad was the lettuce, some of the spinach, peas (the snow peas were older, so I just shucked out the peas as if they were shell peas) and cucumber. To make the stir fry I marinated sliced beef in soy sauce with cornstarch, ginger and white pepper. When I was ready, I fried it in the wok until it was just starting to get done and the sauce was thickening. Then the vegetables were added: garlic scapes, red pepper, snap peas, the boiled mallow peas and 2 of the squashes. This was cooked for a few minutes until everything was tender and served over soba noodles.
In addition, I marinated the fava beans with chopped garlic scapes, red wine vinegar, olive oil, salt and pepper. That's for tomorrow. After dinner, I made another batch of those mallow forgotten cookies, also for tomorrow.
This leaves me with: bok choi, spinach, chard, beet greens, beets, kohlrabi, more snap peas, a cucumber, parsley, cilantro, and leftover salad. We have a lot to cook/eat in the next few days!
Here's the tally: 1 head of lettuce, 1 bowl spinach, 2 kohlrabi, 1 head bok choi, 4 squashes, 3 cucumbers, 6 beets with their greens, swiss chard, 1 bunch each of parsley and cilantro, 2 quarts of snap peas, 30 pods of fava beans and a quart of snow peas. I was supposed to get other herbs and 15 flowers but it just seemed like too much. Oh, and I got almost half a cup of mallow peas.
After extracting the mallow whites from the mallow peas, I made a salad and a stir fry for dinner. The salad was the lettuce, some of the spinach, peas (the snow peas were older, so I just shucked out the peas as if they were shell peas) and cucumber. To make the stir fry I marinated sliced beef in soy sauce with cornstarch, ginger and white pepper. When I was ready, I fried it in the wok until it was just starting to get done and the sauce was thickening. Then the vegetables were added: garlic scapes, red pepper, snap peas, the boiled mallow peas and 2 of the squashes. This was cooked for a few minutes until everything was tender and served over soba noodles.
In addition, I marinated the fava beans with chopped garlic scapes, red wine vinegar, olive oil, salt and pepper. That's for tomorrow. After dinner, I made another batch of those mallow forgotten cookies, also for tomorrow.
This leaves me with: bok choi, spinach, chard, beet greens, beets, kohlrabi, more snap peas, a cucumber, parsley, cilantro, and leftover salad. We have a lot to cook/eat in the next few days!
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