Local Box 7/8/13 - Vegan Greenling Mealplan

wow, when i go out of town and skip a week it feels like forevs till a new one comes. so exciting

here's the scoop

Cherry Tomatoes
Peaches
Cantaloupe
Lettuce
Poona Kheera Cucumbers
Green Onion
Basil
Purple Potatoes
Spaghetti Squash
Popcorn on the cob

YES POPcorn on the cob - check them out! You just take off the husks, put them in a paper back, lay them in the microwave and pop-em. Groovy

So i am just finishing up week one of a 28 day plan - it's called the Wellness Reboot and it's designed my vegan Chef Christy Morgan - aka The Blissful Chef - i cook from her book Blissful Bites all the time.

It has a really fab menu, meal plan, recipes and workouts, super clean, healthy and delicious food - so all my meals right now are from that. I will do my best to adapt some recipes so as to use all my box food too. a fun adventure.

Cherry Tomatoes, Lettuce, Green Onion, and the Poona Kheera Cucumbers will all go in salads and also for snacks with dip or wraps.  In fact I made a wrap today with hummus and used the cucumbers in it, as well as sliced up some sticks of it for the side, you will see the cool color of this odd cucumber in the next post

Peaches and Cantaloupe will be my "sweet snacks" of the day if my son doesn't eat them first

Basil - Christy actually sometimes uses basil in smoothies, i tried, it, and it's GOOD! it can also probably be thrown into almost any recipe

Spaghetti Squash - I will probably just add this in as a vegetable side, so healthy and low cal and fat.

Purple Potatoes -these don't really seem adaptable to my meal plan but my kids LOVE purple mashed potatoes so there ya go.

see you next week

Local Box 7/11/13 - Vegan Greenling Meal Plan

oh summer - so much beautiful produce, and i love eating it mostly raw :)

here's the box:

Tomatoes
Basil
Swiss Chard greens
Hon Tsai Tsai
Green Bell Peppers
Fennel
Mangoes
Baby Carrots
Crookneck Squash
1015 Onion

Tomatoes - salads, and tonight i made sauteed onion and tomatoes and mixed it with lentils, delish, but I forgot to take a pic!

Basil - some kind of salad dressing - like this one Tahini Basil Salad Dressing

Greens - likely smoothies

Hon Tsai Tsai all the recipes i've looked up seem to be stir fries or sauteed, so we shall see what happens

Green Bell Peppers - probably salads or raw slices with hummus

Fennel - I may try grilling - supposed to have a veg grill fiesta next weekend with my brother and fam

Mangoes - i love Mangoes, so they will probably get gobbled up, altho the box came with a very delectable sounding Mango Salsa recipe that also uses the green bell pepper

in fact i used one this morning with strawberries, oats, coconut yogurt, and pecans, like a parfait

Baby Carrots - see Bell Peppers

Squash - maybe grill!

Corn-ee

quicky post with last weeks makings:

on the fourth we grilled the corn! I also threw on the sweet peppers and some veggie dogs, I topped my dog with the grilled peppers.

Beautiful Tomatoes! I ate them topped on toast and guacamole, with some carrot sticks from the box before that that were still around!

Another item that was still around from the previous box that I didn't write about was a spaghetti squash - I roasted it and topped it with a delicious sun dried tomato sauce that used a box tomato. The recipe was from Christy Morgan's Wellness Reboot meal plan - I got to recipe test it - check out the plan HERE - and get a kick start on getting healthy and feeling great!

Beets, chard and spinach went in smoothies, Cantaloupe for breakfasts and snacks for me and Gabe! happy times

Local Box 6/27/13 - Vegan Greenling Meal Plan

hey folks - so I totally missed an entire Local Box - i got the box, and ate the food - but no post. My laptop decided to take a week long sick break.

It's reached the height of summer heat - so pretty much from now till September it will be smoothies, salads, grilling and light meals

Here is this weeks delightful oontents:

Corn - my fave summer vegetable
Tomatoes
Swiss  Chard
Malabar Spinach
Sweet Peppers
Spearmint
Microgreens
Cantaloupe
Beets
Sweet Onion

Ahhh Corn, just in time for July 4, gonna grill them up to have with our veggie dogs, watermelon and ice cream.

Tomatoes - in a salad no doubt, with the Spinach. or open faced on hummus and toast

Swiss Chard - honestly i can't picture doing anything other than throwing these and the Spinach in green smoothies

Sweet Peppers - i am imagining grilling these up and eating them on my veggie dog

Microgreens - salad

Cantaloupe - my son and i ADORE cantaloupe and have been eating it every day, i have added it to smoothies before but i think it will be all gone before i get to!

Beets - I love shredded beets and carrots in salad. Also love to add beets to smoothies for added nutrition oomph

Spearmint - maybe some iced mint green tea!

see you next week with the results

Local Box 5/30/13 - Vegan Greenling Meal Plan

oh joy - PEACHES! I read in the paper how our local peach crop has suffered this year due to the weather, late frosts and stuff, so i was soooo glad to have them in my box this week!

Here are the contents:

Peaches
Yellow Beans
Swiss Chard
Garlic Chives
Carrots
Radicchio
Grapefruit
Beets
Sweet yellow onion

Peaches - smoothies, cereal, maybe grilled, it's time to get the grill going

Yellow Beans - Garlic Yellow Beans - delish looking

I'm craving pizza lately, I literally can't stop thinking about it. So I found these two recipes - one for Radicchio pizza with Truffle Oil from Alicia Silverstone's The Kind Diet - and another for Caramelized Onion and wilted Swiss Chard pizza

Beets & Carrots - I may roast and snack on,  and use in smoothies

here's a radicchio for your entertainment

Collards - i've already used them in smoothies
Grapefruit also!
Garlic Chives - these are the wild card, we shall see where they end up

Hot under the Collard Greens

I'm going to have to double up, and post the local box post tomorrow - meanwhile here are the goodies from the last box!

Here is the Collard Greens with Lentils, Tomatoes & Indian Spices, a success dish for sure.

Herbed Home Fries from Happy Herbivore - super delicious!

A basic side salad with the carrots, lettuce and Goddess Mint Dressing from Blissful Bites

Kale salad with carrots and kohlrabi

Berry Berry Quinoa with the Ah-mazing strawberries!

Local Box 5/16/13 - Vegan Greenling Meal Plan

sorry there weren't two posts for the last box, but by the time i posted the contents I had already used most of it!
I'm being on time now, check it!

Kale
Red & Yukon Potatoes
Green Kohlrabi
Mangos
Collard Greens
Spearmint Plant
Lettuce
Strawberries
Carrots
Green Onions

So tonight I'm going to make a basic Kale salad - massaged leaves with avocado, carrot, green onion, lemon juice, and maybe I will dd some diced mango or strawberries!

Also I am going to make Herbed Home Fries from Happy Herbivore cookbook with the potatoes. 

Kohlrabi - i may try to steam it this time, i bought an interesting salt free seasoning at Penzey's the other day that i have yet to try, it may be good on this

Collard Greens - if they don't just end up in smoothies, I'm going to make this Collard Greens with Lentils, Tomatos & Indian Spices because i have a bag of red lentils sitting around in my pantry and it looks amazing and easy

if you know me and my blog at all, you know that when ever i get mint i make the Mint Goddess dressing from Blissful Bites - not sure if Spearmint is the same but I'm going to do it anyway!

So that dressing will go on my lettuce for my salads - and that is that folks!

here's a kohlrabi for your entertainment