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Food Catchup Day

by Mixed Greens · July 26th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Today was a big food day. This last week, my SO had family in town, so we didn’t do a whole lot of cooking. And I’d been out of town the previous 2 weekends, so the cooking I had done was quick and easy. Today, I had a lot of food enjoying to catch up on.

The first thing I did was stop by some cherry trees I’d noticed earlier in the week on a bike ride. I’d talked to the residents and they’d said I could grab as many cherries as I wanted. These were not as sweet or as big as cherries you’d get from the store, but still very edible.

Washed Cherries with Pitter

After that, I got a cherry pitter and some scissors. I took the scissors to my garden and cut most of my normal basil (I have some cinnamon basil with which I’m still trying to figure out something to do). I made pesto:
Pesto

  • basil (stems are fine as long as you can chew them)
  • olive oil
  • parmesan cheese
  • pine nuts

Stick it all in the food processor, chop it up and pesto you have! I forgot to put in some garlic, but it was still pretty good. You can see I only got about a 1/2 pint, but now it is in the freezer for some winter day when I want to spread it on toast.

After that, I made breakfast from some things I’d gotten from the CSA. This is stir fried zuchinni and onions, with some chard remnants tossed in at the end.

Stirfry

For lunch, I made pizza-dillas.

Pizza-dilla

  • tomato sauce
  • shredded cheese
  • dried salami
  • tortillas

Place all ingredients on tortilla, heat in toaster oven until cheese is melted. Mmmmm.

I also tried a recipe from the CSA handout–baked kale:

Kale In Oven

  • kale
  • olive oil

Preheat oven to 400 degrees wash the kale. Remove the stems. Mix enough olive oil with kale in bowl to coat kale lightly.  Spread kale on a ungreased baking dish. Make sure that the kale is only one level thick–I burned my kale because I put too much in it (some pieces were not crispy, so I left it in too long). Stick it in the oven, checking every 3-5 minutes for crispiness. At the end, it tastes a bit like a healthy potato chip. My SO suggested mixing the kale with bacon, which would of course make it taste better.

Kale Chips

And finally, I pitted all the cherries. Originally, I was planning to dry them, but laziness got the better of me and I stuck them in jars in the freezer, to be enjoyed in a pie or on ice cream in the future.

Pitting the cherries

Cherries ready to be frozen

What a day!

Tags: CSA · Fruit · Gadgets · Recipe · Vegetables

3 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Bacon Is Good // Jul 27, 2008 at 3:06 pm

    Sounds like a fun day. The baked kale recipe looks cool, I didn’t know you could do that with kale!

  • 2 mango and sticky rice // Aug 3, 2008 at 6:18 pm

    what CSA are you a part of?

  • 3 Mixed Greens // Aug 9, 2008 at 8:57 am

    Bacon, the kale was good, if a bit burnt. I imagine that will be a staple for kale I get in the future.

    Mango, I’m a member of the Cure Organic Farm CSA.

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