Tiffanie: this week's menu

I'm making good progress on the veggies in the fridge; we've knocked off the kale, half the zucchini, the bok choy, some lettuce, the fava beans, the spring onions (made quickles!)...

I'm planning to make:

• mapo tofu, rice, onion pancakes, sauteed kohlrabi, roasted zucchini
• baked potatoes with chili, sauteed swiss chard, etc.
• mushroom tofu potato stew with miso gravy. This is a big stew, so it'll be eaten over two days, with rice or pasta. I bought a parsnip to throw in, as I love parsnips. And I'll roast sweet potatoes on the side. Cabbage salad, perhaps with toasted almonds and bits of ramen noodles.

I hope that my fridge will be emptied out pretty well by Wednesday, for the next CSA box. :-)

The fava bean salad I made last week was excellent -- I recommend it highly. It was labor intensive -- the fava beans have to be shelled, then blanched, then peeled, and there is a hidden step of making quickles (quick pickled spring onions). The quickles are easy, and very yummy.

Tiffanie: my menu this week

We've got family coming to stay with us for a week starting on Wednesday, which will mean more restaurant dinners. So I'm just planning through Wednesday, and it'll be ad hoc after that (based on what is in the CSA box).

My plans for this week include:

• taco night (a weekly fixture!)
• Lal dal with jasmine rice, steamed artichokes
• peanut noodles, raw kale salad with toasted pine nuts, and probably onion pancakes
• Lentil soup, from the Barefoot Contessa cookbook. I adore this recipe, and I have a bunch of aging leeks that need to go into it. 
• orzo spinach olive salad. I saw this at Whole Foods, and I remembered making huge batches of it a couple of summers ago. I need to drag up my notes... I recall using varied ingredients in addition to the required orzo and olives. Feta, toasted pine nuts, cherry tomatoes, basil...
• cilantro cashew cream; I saw this on Soulemama this week, and it sounds like a lovely addition to my Mexican food addiction. Also a good way to use up CSA herbs and greens...