Local Box 1/23/14 - Vegan Greenling Meals

first of Kudos to Greenling and the deliver drivers from being out in the terrible freezing wet weather bringing us all our delicious boxes of goodness! Super Sweet!

Ok here's the goods:

Mesclun Salad Mix
Avocado
Arugula
Spinach
Tangerines
Meyer Lemons
Cauliflower
Dill
Watermelon Radish
Rainbow Carrots

So last week, you know i was in Marshall for the New Year New You festival, and one quote from one of my heroes,  Dr Michael Gregor, stuck out and stuck with me. It was that for breast cancer survivors, eating at least one cruciferous vegetable a day can greatly reduce the risk of recurrance.  I know i'm a healthy eater, but i don't conciously do this...so of course it's on my mind now and I was so happy to see FOUR cruciferous veggies in this box - Spinach, Arugula, Cauliflower & Radish! Awesome.

Salad Mix - salads! with the Avocado, and may mix Arugula in there as well.  I can make a dressing using the Lemons.

Spinach - probably just saute or steam or add to a soup

Arugula, Dill, Avocado, Lemon - i found the perfect recipe in Nava Atlas' cookbook Wild About Greens - Very Green Avocado Tahini Dip!

Cauliflower - i'm torn - the box came with an amazing sounding recipe for Roasted Cauliflower with Lemon and Dill - it just uses more oil than i usually use.  I also found a Curry Cauliflower soup in Colleen Patrick-Goudreu's  Color Me Vegan cookbook.

Carrots - I may roast or just steam and eat. A few will now doubt get in a salad

Watermelon Radish - Salads most likely, or this Sweet Pickled Onion Watermelon Radish Salad but while im in a roasting mood i found this Roasted Watermelon Radish recipe

Rad-icchio

So I was cleaning out my fridge this morning in anticipation of my new delivery box this eve, and I discovered I had totally forgotten the radicchio from last weeks box!  It looked like it was still good, but I knew I had to use it today, or lose it.  

The stove was still hot from making some sweet potatoes, so I decided I would just try roasting it with a little bit of olive oil and salt.  So I washed the leaves and spread them out on some parchment paper on a baking tray, drizzled the olive oil, and then put of the corner of my eye I spotted the salt cellar  and gourmet salt that I got for Christmas from my ex husband and his wife.  This particular salt is Ghost Pepper salt.  You know how I love things spicy!  So I used that, stuck it in the oven, waited maybe 15 minutes and then checked on my experiment

Not bad.  A little odd. But tasty, like delicate crispy flaky spicy things that dissolve in your mouth.  

I want my baby bok baby bok baby bok

I have been a somewhat lazy cook! I baked the sweet potatoes and at them here and there.  I ended up feeding the pea shoots to Drizzle the guinea pig. He loved them. I still have the daikon.  Limes squeezed on whatever.  Oranges in smoothies!

I did however make the delicious Quinoa & Bok Choy Stir fry. It was really good, a perfect mix of flavors, super addicting

I went out of town this past weekend to Marshall, TX - to attend the New Year New You Health fest for my second time.  It's a plant based conference with renowned speakers, cooking demos by well known vegan chefs and work outs. The highlight was meeting Colleen Patrick-Goudreau who has authored three of my standby cook books and is an AMAZING speaker. If you want to be inspired, or want more info on veganism I encourage you to check out her podcast Food For Thought

I got really inspred while there and learned some new recipes as well as buying two new cookbooks!  The Health Promoting Cookbook by Dr. Alan Goldhamer who spoke at the event, and the new on by Chef Del Sroufe - Better Than Vegan, he was there doing a couple of cooking demo's and i love him!

Ok, new box this week! I hope to use my new recipes for it!

Local Box 1/9/14 - Vegan Greenling Meals

OMG do you all even remember me???? I haven't posted in so long, who knows why, busy, sick, my box day fell on thanksgiving AND Christmas so i didn't even get boxes for a few weeks, all of the above...

so I'm back, it's a new year, let's see what lovely new things i can make!
so today's box:

Pea Shoots
Treviso Raddicho
Bok Choy
Broccoli
Sweet Potato
Green Shallots
Marrs Oranges
Persian Limes
Daikon Radish
Live Rosemary Plant

Pea Shoots - i think in the past I have only made salads so I think I will try a cooked recipe.  Either this Soba with Pea Shoots, Shiitake Mushrooms, & Leeks because i have some amazing new special noodle bowls i got for Christmas - or easy pea-sy Pea Shoots Sauteed with Garlic & Ginger 

Treviso Raddichio - I found this rather tasty looking salad that uses Oranges too!  Raddichio & Orange Salad

Bok Choy - Quinoa & Bok Choy Stir Fry - this looks so good in the pictures! and i can use one of the limes for the juice

Sweet Potato - I tend to just bake these lately and keep them i the fridge for weekday meals

Limes - i want to make a salad dressing, maybe something from this Big List of No-oil Salad Dressings 


Daikon Radish - this Cold Soba Salad with Crisp Vegetables looks good, but there are a lot of them so i may try Roasting them

Ok, see you next week with the results!

peas peas me

here's a quicky before my new box comes today!


Purple Hull Peas - here i cooked them up, then later turned them into chili beans, a thing i usually do with a can of Pintos from a recipe i got from Wellness Reboot - basically smokey chili flavored.  And i served them over a baked sweet potato

Here is a delicious marinara that my son made using the basil

here is the before pic of sweet potato and butternut squash, onion, lemon and olive oil before going in to roast till really soft!

Local Box 10/17/19 - Vegan Greenling Meal Plan

Here's a combo post - because wouldn't you know - that in between boxes i got really sick and didn't even eat for a bunch of days!

From that last box i did roast the sweet potatoes and squash as they lasted, and i made the purple hull peas.

Getting ready to go in the oven

So here's whats in the new box from last week:

Avocado

Purple Hull Peas

Okra

Basil

Mustard Greens

Mesclun Salad Mix

Fuyu Persimmon

Sweet Potato

Key Lime

Already made up a batch of the peas and yesterday ate a bowl with some chopped up avocado and tomato and Tabasco, and today i had a bowl with chopped onion, nutritional yeast and Tabasco. Delish and quick.

Okra - I'm gonna roast these up too! I love roasted Okra.

Mustard Greens - sauteed up in my usual Good Ass Greens recipe

Persimmons - i'm not a huge fan of persimmons but have been having them every day in my new fave fall Green Smoothie - Almond Milk, half a frozen banana, a persimmon, a red apple, a tablespoon of peanut butter, spinach and cinnamon!

Sweet Potato - the ususal

Key Limes - a salad drssing from this Big List of No-oil Salad Dressings

It's Fall all up in here

hey eaters - here's what's up for the first box of October!

Purple Hull Peas
Sweet Peppers
Dill
Sweet Potato
Louisiana Green Shallots
Asian Pears
Red Potatoes
Mini Pumpkins
Butternut Squash

the Peas - i'm gonna cook up like this - Purple Hull Peas from Fat Free Vegan - and eat with greens and quinoa

Sweet Peppers, salads or stir fries

Dill - some kind of salad dressing - like this Cucumber-Dill Ranch

Sweet Potato - i just bake these up in batches and have them with almost every meal!

Shallots - I used some today in Shitake Miso Soup!

Asian Pears - i love these, today i chopped one up in some vanilla soy yogurt, topped with pecans

Red Potatoes - it's roasted potato season!

Mini Pumpkins - they have a recipe with these, but i will probably use them for decoration :)

Butternut Squash - i'm craving these chopped up and roasted with onion and spices