Kara & Michael’s Blog

Corn, 6 ears
Leek, one
Garlic, one bulb
Zucchini, two
Hungarian banana peppers, two
Green bell pepper, one
Peaches, four
Basil, one bag
Spring Mix, one bag
New Red Potatoes, one bag
Cucumber, one
Green beans, one bag
Wax beans, one bag

I think that’s everything. Now we have to get off our lazy bums and cook this week.

Wow, that’s a mouthful. I had planned to pick peaches and blackberries this weekend at Homestead Farms in Poolesville, MD but hadn’t figured on the heat, the humidity, the sun. As it was, I was up in that area on Saturday, so we visited the Lotte Plaza in Germantown instead. We did a very bad [...]

If you’re smart, you plan out your meals for the week, hit the store once or twice and cook what you set out for yourself. It’s cheaper, less time-consuming, keeps you from eating out on-the-fly (which gets expensive very quickly).
Of course, no amount of planning can take every little thing into consideration. Sometimes, you have [...]

In this week’s box:

5 Zucchini
3 Cucumbers
2 tomatoes
6 ears corn
1 yellow onion
Spring mix
Beets
2 peaches
Green beans

I think that’s it, although surely Michael will correct me if I’m wrong. A coworker brought in a lemon cucumber from his garden yesterday, which is positively darling. I managed to take it home since everyone else was weirded out by it, [...]

Last night I made Flounder Florentine - using whiting instead of flounder and using collards instead of spinach. I thought I’d explain it because it was pretty simple and Michael said it was good.
To start, I boiled water with a vegetable bouillon cube. You could certainly use meat stock if you choose. Then I rinsed [...]

Garlic Scapes
Oregano
Chard, bunch of stems
Collard Greens, bunch of stems
Zucchini, one
Spring Mix, one bag
Big head of Lettuce (Red Leaf, maybe?)
Beets, one bunch
Red Potatoes, 6 or so
Bing Cherries, one pint

Michael loves cherries, and I’m allergic (darn birch sensitivity!) to uncooked cherries, so those are all for him. Still, though, is anything prettier than a cherry? Not [...]

I hope that “Bob” won’t regard this as a sacrilege, but Flying Spaghetti Monster appeared to me last night on my cutting board.  I doubt “Bob” minds so long as he gets his profits.

I simply pulled the garlic scapes out of their packaging and set them on the cutting board, and they formed this shape, [...]

Kara just wrote about what we got in our CSA this week, so I thought I’d list the meals we came up with to use up that produce. We’ll eat most of these two nights, or for dinner and then for lunch on a subsequent day, because the 700-750 calories we eat for dinner just [...]

Strawberries, 1 pint
Cabbage, one ginormous head
Chard, a bunch of stems
Collard Greens, a bunch of stems
Random Lettuce, two heads
Spring onions, another bunch
Garlic Scapes
New Potatoes, a few
Mint, a bag
Snow Peas, 3 sandwich bags
Tiny beets, bunch

I think that’s all, but I could be wrong. Our box was stuffed! I know a lot of people complain about [...]

Last night was supposed to be our night for sweet chili lime tofu and kale, a recipe from VeganYumYum that I’ve linked to probably a million times already over the past week. So, after heading to the grocery store and dropping three dollars (!) on extra firm tofu (the cheap brand they carry doesn’t make [...]