Eat Your Vegetables

Cooking away the CSA, week 19: Summer by the forkful

http://www.lawrence.com/users/photos/2013/aug/19/260260/ Usually my family food goals revolve around attempting to plan meals and using up everything in our fridge, but last week it was something else entirely. I was determined to get as many bits of our last CSA box from [Rolling ...

Cooking away the CSA, week 18: Pantry potato pieces

http://www.lawrence.com/users/photos/2013/aug/12/259848/ So, I’m going to change things up a bit. You see, last week we got a fabulous assortment of yumminess from our CSA, [Rolling Prairie][1]: Watermelon, tomatoes, snap peas, cucumbers, starter onions, yellow squash and ...

Cooking away the CSA, week 17: Travel eats

http://www.lawrence.com/users/photos/2013/aug/05/259525/ If you try to eat healthy, travel can pose certain problems. Not only temptation, but just plain logistics. It turns into a sort of either/or situation: Either you eat what’s available (and it probably won’t be healthy) or you ...

Cooking away the CSA, week 16: Double squash delight

http://www.lawrence.com/users/photos/2013/jul/29/259191/ Before we get started on how to do nutritional double duty with not one but two kinds of squash in the same meal, I wanted to say thank you to all of you who contacted me with such positive things to say about [my writeup on veggies ...

Cooking away the CSA, week 15: On raising a kid who likes vegetables

http://www.lawrence.com/users/photos/2013/jul/22/258822/ Every Monday when we pick up our [CSA bag from Rolling Prairie][1], our 4-year-old son goes with us. And every Saturday when we go to the [Lawrence Farmers’ Market][2], he goes too. And when we harvest (or work) in the garden, he’s ...

Cooking away the CSA, week 14: The juice on dealing with abundance

http://www.lawrence.com/users/photos/2013/jul/15/258505/ We’re officially halfway through the CSA season, and therefore we’ve turned a corner where tomatoes are the norm, local sweet corn makes its brief appearance and basil goes with every meal. Abundance is coming. And it is both ...