I've decide to start posting about what I get in my organic basket from Bountiful Baskets and post ideas and links for the recipes I make using the produce. I hope that other people will find this helpful especially when they get ingredients that they are not very familiar with like I did this week. I only get a basket every 2 weeks right now, but with the organic baskets having less than the regular ones I might start getting.
Note: The recipes are not created by me. I have gathered these from cookbooks and online and will give credit to the chef who created them. The recipes I post will typically be from scratch. So no or very few processed ingredients. We (my husband and I) are not expert chefs so these recipes are doable for people who have some basic cooking skills. Of course read the recipes to see if they fit in with what you are willing and able to do in the kitchen after a long day.
The contents of my basket include: 2 pears, 1 red apple, a bunch of bananas, 4 kiwi, 2 avocado, 3 romaine hearts, green onions, garlic, 2 small heads of broccoli, green kale, rainbow chard, 6 red beets, 1 cucumber, and fennel. (Bold type items I have never tried before.)
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| Rainbow Chard - So pretty |
Garlic - Who needs a recipe for this? Not us. We probably cook with garlic at least 3-4 times a week. I did sautee some green beans and mushrooms last week in garlic butter. So yummy!
Fennel - I haven't used this very much so I searched for a new recipe. This sounds yummy.
Shaved Fennel and Green Apple Salad
Beets and Green Onions
Farfalle Pasta with Beet Vinaigrette and Parsley Pesto
Beets - These look yummy and I have sweet potatoes left from my last basket. Hmmmm I guess I need to decide what I want to do with those beets.
Sweet Potato and Beet Chips
Rainbow Chard and Green Onions - this is a new recipe for me. I love anything with lemongrass.
Lemongrass and Ginger Egg Drop Soup
Green Kale
Kale Chips
Avocado and Romaine Hearts
Quinoa Avocado Tacos
Broccoli and Cucumber - these will just be snacks or a quick steamed side dish (broccoli)
So it looks like lots of new recipes to try this time around. Let me know if you try any of these recipes. I'll follow up later to let you know how they turned out for us.
Happy Eating!
2 comments:
I wish we had Bountiful Baskets here! My sister is in UT and gets her produce through them and loves it. We've thought about joining a CSA out here but they're all really expensive.
I cooked with fennel for the first time this last week and wasn't sure whether I would like it or not, but the dish we ended up making (a pasta dish) was delicious! We have some left over so this week I was actually planning on making an apple/fennel salad too! This recipe: http://www.sassyradish.com/2011/04/apple-and-fennel-salad/. You'll have to let me know how your recipe turns out.
I'm glad you posted this blog of yours to facebook; I didn't even know it existed. I'll have to go back and look at your older posts now.
Hope you all are doing well :)
Oh and also we made kale chips just last week for the first time and they were yummy; Henry even liked them! Which was a huge success because he's refusing to eat anything green for months, except for the occasional cucumber. The recipe I used had just a touch of chili powder in it, but was otherwise the same as yours.
I'm excited to read more about your real food journey; hopefully it will help inspire mine!
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