(2023) Thum Mak Tua (Long Bean Salad)

So excited to see green beans because I’ve been wanting to share a no-cook recipe we ran back in July on Lao salads. The source was Ilene Rouamvongsor and you may have met her at one of the Community Farmers Markets where she occasionally does chef demos and shares recipes. I’m giving you a much abridged version of her Thum Mak Tua which is a salad traditionally made with long beans, pounded with peppers, garlic, sugar and shrimp paste and then dressed with two kinds of fish sauce. Ilene would not be pleased with my truncated version (sorry!) but this is a version I can make with just things that are always in my pantry. And it’s delicious.

(2022) Bully Boy’s Teriyaki Sauce

If you’re looking at a behemoth bok choy and wondering what to do with it, turn to Riverview’s collection of recipes – https://grassfedcow.com/ingredient/bok-choy/ – for about two dozen ideas. But … I offer you a new one. I had dinner at Bully Boy Sunday night and my friends enjoyed their salmon teriyaki which is served with baby bok choy drizzled with their teriyaki sauce. It was delicious and it just happens we’re publishing that recipe in the AJC in about two weeks, so I am here to share the basics on that sauce so you can reproduce something like it at home. The bok choy was steamed until completely, meltingly tender, and served with the sauce (and the salmon and some steamed green beans). Use a few of the green onions from your box to make this. This sauce is definitely sweet so you just need a little. But it will keep in your refrigerator for a long time, so use it on other vegetables and proteins.

(2021) Blistered Green Beans

Have we talked about blistered green beans before? I hope not, because I’ve got a recipe to share. It’s from Alexandra Stafford of alexandracooks.com. You do have a head of garlic left over from a week or so ago? Love her very clear direction on how to make sure this is seasoned the way you’d like and how to get blistered but not burnt beans.

(2021) Summer Vegetables in Spiced Yogurt Sauce

This is also a recipe from the New York Times and totally adaptable for what is in this week’s box. You should swap out vegetables as you prefer. I’ve just been in the mood for Indian food, so this really appealed to me this week. We ran a recipe for Chicken Korma from Aroma Bistro in Roswell a week or two ago and testing that recipe just made me crave Indian spices.

(2021) Spicy Peanut Soba Noodles With Green Beans

I ran into this idea for soba noodles and green beans and since that was a big bag of beans in the box, I’ll probably split them between crudité and this recipe that I found in the Washington Post. It’s also a recipe that lends itself to whatever you have in your pantry. For example, they suggested if you don’t have soba noodles, try another thin noodle, such as vermicelli rice noodles or angel hair pasta. And that sriracha could substitute for the chili-garlic sauce, or that you could just whatever hot sauce you have on hand. And finally, that any mild vinegar could substitute for the rice vinegar called for here.