Eat Your Vegetables

Cooking away the CSA, week 7: Fruity starter salad

http://www.lawrence.com/users/photos/2013/may/27/256102/ I warned you last week that I'm deep in the midst of enjoying salad season. And you know what other season we're just starting? Berry season. And the collision is beautiful. I just adore fruity salads. They're light and beautiful ...

Cooking away the CSA, week 6: Salad season

http://www.lawrence.com/users/photos/2013/may/20/255693/ It's officially salad season, my friends! Sure, we've been getting greens for weeks, but we're really rolling now. And, if you've been following this space for a few years, you know I couldn't be happier. I've been buying greens ...

Cooking away the CSA, week 5: Greens, greens everywhere

http://www.lawrence.com/users/photos/2013/may/13/255182/ It is FINALLY 80 degrees. And mid-May. And sunny. And all those things mean summer is right around the corner — as underlined by the fact that I bought a dozen or so herb starters this weekend for my container garden. Including ...

Cooking away the CSA, week 4: Pizza dough can be the kitchen sink of CSA eating

http://www.lawrence.com/users/photos/2013/may/06/254511/ Last week in our CSA, we received whole-wheat flour, pea greens, spinach, salad greens, chives and green onions. You might look at that list and think it looks like one giant salad after another. And you might be right. We did use ...

Cooking away the CSA, week 3: How to build a green smoothie

http://www.lawrence.com/users/photos/2013/apr/28/253997/ I've written a lot of smoothies over the years to this space. A LOT. And the majority of them have had some green element to them. They might not have actually been green, like the smoothie I wrote about last week, but they are green ...

Cooking away the CSA, week 2: One pan, tons of veggies and dinner for days

http://www.lawrence.com/users/photos/2013/apr/23/253690/ Last week, in our very first CSA pickup of the year from [Rolling Prairie][1], we received spinach, green onions, salad mix, dried mushrooms and tofu (Central Soy's local tofu). It was a great and versatile mix of items we could’ve ...