Boxing Day, April 29

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Dear John,

We harvested our first radishes, all four of them, on Friday. The CSA returns today. We have family in town, with more on the way, for multiple celebrations. Time to think about some menu options.

Today’s Box

  • Baby Green Bok Choy
  • Green Garlic
  • Green Leaf Lettuce
  • Rhubarb Asparagus

Things in the fridge

  • Sunchokes

In the Garden

  • Radishes

Open Preserves

  • Ha! You think I’ve managed to inventory the preserves? I haven’t even carved the time to brainstorm a meal plan reliably over the past year. Thankfully we’ve eaten anyway.

Springtime celebration foods

  • The cranberry beans got overcooked. Yikes! Let’s try making a dip to go with the radishes. And maybe this egg pudding. Sidebar: What’s the difference between a souffle and an egg pudding? What about a gratin, which apparently it was called previously? Whatever it’s called, I bet it’ll go nicely with a very simple salad of lettuce and dressing.
  • Rhubarb custard pie. Because it’s been too long.
  • Green garlic and bok choy sure sound like stir-fry to me. Maybe sometime simple with some tofu? Or dried mushrooms? [Edit. NOPE. I went looking for my links and before I got there came up with the ginger, garlic, bok choy soup and that sounds just right on the rainy day when I’m writing.]
  • Related: We have some leftover rice. Could do our standard fried rice. Or we could do a kimchi baked rice again. Either way, plan to add in radish tops and some frozen collard stems.
  • We still have some of the sunchokes from this year’s harvest. Mostly because we didn’t make sunchoke burgers or preserves this year. Do we want to make the burgers for the company? Or maybe do smashed sunchokes on salad? Or somehow make them a side dish for the risotto we’ll make for our big meal? In any case, let’s try to use them soon before we get caught in the glories of our produce bin.

Love,

Sarah

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