This recipe came from Bon Appetit no telling how long ago. An easy, easy salad and a nice green addition to your Thanksgiving table.
Cabbage and Apple Salad for Thanksgiving
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Cold Noodles with Fresh and Preserved Greens
Preserved mustard greens can be found canned at most Chinese markets but I’ve included a recipe for preserved greens that you could make with your collard greens. Yes, you’ll have to plan ahead of this dish, but you’ll have an interesting way to use up some of your collards.
Try your romaine lettuce in this dish, or the tender radish and beet greens. Or the cabbage! Or use the kale and cook the greens a little longer than called for here.
Adapted from recipes on seriouseats.com and Saveur magazine.
Broiled Salmon with Kale and White Beans
I wish I could remember where this recipe came from. It’s an easy weeknight dinner, and even better if you’re one of those cooks who instead of opening a can of beans, prepares your own beans, using your favorite dried beans, flavoring them just the way you like them, slowly simmering them into submission and then freezing what you don’t eat right away in dinner-size portions.
Kale and Peach Salad
Have you had a chance to attend any of the chef demos at the East Atlanta Village Farmers Market? Seth Freedman cooks at 6pm each Thursday, demonstrating really lovely, simple recipes. Here are two I thought you might enjoy.
Pan-Seared Catfish with Creamy Greens
This recipe is from the August 2012 issue of Fine Cooking. Of course, any fish will do.
Roasted Garlic and Smoky Greens Soup
Adapted from a recipe chow.com. You can dress up this soup with a poached egg for a very elegant dinner. Another option for using up some of that garlic! And if you don’t have smoked paprika in your pantry, buy some!
Smoked Chile Collard Greens
One more collard green recipe – this one from Bobby Flay’s “Bar Americain Cookbook”. You can always cook the beet greens along with the collards to make up that 2 1/2 pounds the recipe calls for.
Garbanzo Beans and Hearty Greens
This is a recipe from Cooking Light magazine. Just the collards or beet greens. Either will work. You may want this dish longer in the last step, depending on how tender you want your greens.
No smoked paprika? It’ll be fine. But really – buy some the next time you’re at the market. It’s wonderful.
Winter Greens with Olives and Capers
And we can certainly be sure that more greens are in our future. Here’s an idea from “Okra”, the magazine of the Southern Food and Beverage Association.
Greens with Peppers and Ham
Our final pepper recipe also features greens. Now you have an amazing assortment of greens in this week’s box. My box had a few collard leaves, a bunch of mustard greens, all the tops from those hareuki turnips and the greens from the kohlrabi. I have to say that the kohlrabi bulbs are so small (believe me, they’ll get bigger as the season goes on) that I just cleaned them and sliced them up to eat raw with the hareuki turnips. Then the greens went into the sink with all the others. I’ll be making the gumbo z’herbes we featured last year. I can’t find the recipe in the archive, so I’ll make a note to include it next week.
Anyway, here’s a recipe from chef Eddie Hernandez of Taqueria del Sol, also demonstrated last year at the Peachtree Road Farmers Market. It uses greens and peppers. Hernandez’ version was all collards, but this mixture of greens in the box would work just fine. You cook the greens separately, then add them as an ingredient. Just steam the greens unless you have some leftover from another meal. Love that this will use up some of your jalapenos and tomatoes as well.