Menu Plan Monday – June 21, 2010
June 21, 2010 by Marci
For the past two summers our family has enjoyed bountiful boxes of vegetables from a local organic CSA farm. The vegetables have been wonderful although sometimes new to us. Who knew we would like beet greens, turnips and ground cherries so much?! We never know what is going to be in our box until we pick it up. Its like Christmas! Since we pick up our box on Wednesday, I have to move my meal planning from Sunday to Wednesday. So today’s Meal Plan Monday is actually Meal Plan Wednesday.
This week’s veggie box contained turnips, radishes, spring greens, lettuce, green onions, broccoli, sugar snap peas and garlic scapes. Delicious! The kids love eating turnips, broccoli and snap peas raw. The spring greens were wonderful with strawberries, gorgonzola cheese, walnuts and balsamic dressing. The lettuce was great in salads, on burgers or wilted. The green onions and garlic scapes were great in omelets and salads. There were more turnips this week than we could eat raw, so we made cream of turnip soup and it was fabulous!
What are your favorite summer veggies? Have any great recipes to share? Please?!?!
Here’s the meal plan I came up with:
Dinner
Cream of Turnip Soups, salad, homemade bread
Grilled pork chops, wilted lettuce, fresh veggies and dip
Grilled brats, potato salad, fresh veggies and dip
Grilled chicken, spring green salad with strawberries, left over soup
Grilled burgers (I know, ANOTHER GRILLED MEAL!! It’s too hot to cook inside this week!!), grilled asparagus
Breakfast
Omelets
Whole wheat pancakes
Bagels and cream cheese
Cereal
We have fruit of some kind every morning
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Comments (4)
I love any veggie that I can keep alive(I’m horrible at growing anything except artificial flowers). Right now, we are harvesting squash, green beans, zucchini, and cucumbers. I made a pasta primavera with squash and zucchini, and I love ice cold cucumbers when it is super hot outside. Somehow during the summer, food just tastes better(my guess because it is fresh and ends up grilled in some form).
that sounds fabulous! I am putting up a post later this week about our “family CSA” of sorts. My husband’s grandfather grows a bunch of things and we usually get a bit of it.
Anyway, we Koreans love garlic scapes. My husband calls them alien weed because they kind of look loopy, and weird. But I cut them into 1″ sized pieces, and saute them lightly with sesame oil, and red pepper paste, (though you could do this with red pepper flakes) a touch of sugar, and a touch of salt. We eat this rice, and any grilled meat.
I didn’t know you could eat turnips raw. Do you just make them into sticks like carrot sticks and dip them in a yummy ranch dip?
Do you grill? or does your husband grill? I love grill night because it means my husband cooks! Have a great one, hope you are enjoying the first week of summer!
Abbie- Thanks for the garlic scapes tip! I have been just using them like I would green onions. We love raw turnips. Some varieties are better than others. Just cut them into sticks. Yum!
We are so on the same page! Grilling is the only cooking I can get my hubby to do, too! And I don’t even think he realizes he’s cooking!! lol!! Love it!
I’m on board with the grilling this week – it is sultry outside. Or, I was until I found out that my propane tank needs to be changed and the person assigned that job is unavailable. Oh well!