Salad 24: Oh Sweet Spinach

A very fruity spinach salad or a fruit salad with spinach?

Ingredients:

5 ounces fresh spinach (half a 10 ounce bag)

3/4 cup chopped celery

3/4 cup dried cranberries

1 can (15 ounces) mandarin oranges - or fresh Cuties or Halos

or 1 cup of pomegranate seeds

1 large Granny Smith Apple

1 teaspoon lemon juice

1/3 cup pecans

Optional: Feta cheese

Dressing:

4 tablespoons olive oil or vegetable oil

2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar

2 tablespoons white wine vinegar

2-4 teaspoons white sugar - Or use Honey to taste or Stevia

1/8 teaspoon each: paprika, onion powder

1 tablespoon poppyseeds

Throw it all together. A very fruity spinach salad or a fruit salad with spinach?

Salad 24: Oh Sweet Spinach

CSA session 6 week 4

 This Weeks basket includes Kale, Spinach, Turnips, and Carrots.

Kale is great for plenty of things. Quiche for example is pretty good with it. I like quiches for breakfast because its an egg pie and who doesn't like a good pie? 

Spinach Artichoke dip is one of the ways that I like to eat Spinach because it has all the good things. Cream Cheese, Spinach, Artichoke, Garlic, Other stuff. Spinach salad made with strawberries or mandarin oranges is good, too.

With carrots there's about a million and one ways to make something. You can fry them, sautee them, roast them, or glaze them. They taste good raw too. You can make something sweet, or something savory. Basically, you can do anything with carrots and it will taste good. I'm sure that even bacon-wrapped carrots would taste amazing.

Turnips are quite a different story. They're a vegetable that is good raw while also tasting good cooked, baked, fried and sauteed. I thought they originated from Germany or somewhere in Europe, but turns out that they originated from Eastern Asia! Another fun turnip fact is that there is so many different colors of them. There is the purple top, a bright red one, all white round ones, yellow ones, Hakurei turnips and more! They taste good with plenty of things (Parmesan Crusted Crushed Turnips anyone?) 

This bacon-wrapped chicken recipe was our lunch for today. We also roasted turnips using the unused rub. We put butter in an 8x8 size pan and melted it in the oven at 350 degrees. Then we added the turnips to that, covered them in butter and then poured the rub over the top of them. After the rub was poured and covered, the turnips were put back in the oven for 30 minutes and it tasted AWESOME! 

I hope you enjoy this weeks basket and recipes!
-Maggie

CSA session 6 week 4

CSA Session 6, Week 3

It has been a very busy week for Sleichter farms. Seven of our sows and gilts have farrowed this week, bringing 68 new piggies to the world. These will be our 4-H pigs for this spring and summer. Jay is also helping with the cattle in Abilene this weekend. And Jay and the kids returned to school. It’s been a busy but rewarding week.

Today’s basket includes spinach, carrots, purple sweet potatoes, garlic, and either collard greens or Swiss chard. How do you tell which one you have in your basket? Collard greens have white stems; Swiss chard has yellow, orange, or red stems.

This weather is great for soup, and so are the ingredients in the basket. Our house will be having gnocchi soup with purple sweet potato gnocchi and spinach strips added in. Vegetable soup is a bit of a no-brained, and leave it to Martha Stewart to have a delicious, versatile recipe to use. 

For a heartier meal, collard greens or Swiss chard can replace the cabbage in cabbage rolls, such as in this recipe. Or, oven roasted veggies
  can be a side dish for any meal. I am a big fan of one-sheet-pan meals, because nobody likes doing dishes. This one incorporates many of our basket ingredients; just don’t skimp on the spice, for best results.

We hope you all are staying healthy, and hope this year will only get better from here. Thank you for your continued support of our family farms.

CSA Session 6, Week 3

Salad 23... Napa Cabbage Slaw

Here ya go! Cole slaw is better with fresh ingredients. There is so much more flavor in Napa cabbage, and the lighter texture is refreshing. I don’t like heavy dressing on the Napa cabbage, so today’s recipe is a five ingredient vinaigrette. 

The Before:

The After: 

Salad 23... Napa Cabbage Slaw

CSA Session 6 Week 2

Welcome to the first CSA basket of 2021! This Weeks Basket has 1 head of Bok choy, a half pound dinosaur kale, 1 bag of carrots, 1.5 pounds of root vegetables and 1 onion.

Even though there was no CSA last week, it hasn't slowed down here one bit. We've got 7 pigs due to give birth today and school starting on Tuesday we're definitely going to have our hands full. But the piglets are going to be cute and I'm glad to get to go back to school and see friends.

Here is 10 different fun Bok Choy recipes for you to use your families "Chinese food night." I really think the meatballs would taste good. You can't go wrong with a good meatball.

I like Kale because of how good it tastes in a lot of things. For proof of that, here is 57 different Kale recipes to try. The Kale BLT salad looks to be delicious. 

Carrots can be good with many things. I would say that carrot cakes are a great option to use that in, but between Christmas and New Years, I'd rather have something savory. I can't pass up a good tart and this one has Carrots and Ricotta Cheese. 

This Root Vegetable Hash looks like something we had once that we also added Kale to. I liked it and I definitely wouldn't mind having again.

All these Recipes have a bit of onion in them somewhere, so the onion can be added to any of them.

I hope you enjoy your veggies this week
-Maggie

CSA Session 6 Week 2