Every year we hear there are some folks who don’t know what to do with the onions in their box. While that’s never a problem at my house, maybe it is at yours? Try this recipe – no idea where it came from – and substitute whatever cheese you like in place of the Gorgonzola, if blue is not a favorite at your house.
Baking the onions like this is an easy way to caramelize them without having to keep stirring a skillet on the stove.
Yes, melons make great smoothies. Or soup. Try this one both ways.
Love this recipe from thekitchn.com. Use more or less tomato, according to your taste and how many tomatoes you have on the counter. (You’re not putting those tomatoes in the refrigerator, are you?) And yes, use the cinnamon. Love these long-cooked beans.
I love gazpacho, especially when it’s as hot as it is right now. This recipe is from “Julia Reed’s South: Spirited Entertaining and High-Style Fun All Year Long.” There’s the gazpacho and then there’s a sherbet. You can make one or the other, or both – but it’s a very impressive combination if you can make the time to do the sherbet. Gazpacho goes together in minutes.
This is a recipe from Mark Bittman’s “How to Cook Everything Vegetarian.” In his notes he says, “Beets, like carrots, can be eaten raw. And they’re delicious that way, crunchy and sweet. So sweet, in fact, that they need a strongly acidic dressing like this one for balance.”
If you don’t have shallot, finely dice a little bit of the yellow-skinned onion in today’s box.
I wish I remembered where this came from. But it’s a great way to use the corn and peppers from today’s box. We don’t have field peas yet, but I’m betting we’ll see some soon. And this is delicious without field peas – so consider maybe dicing up a zucchini if you have one left from last week. It’s an easy recipe for a slow cooker.
There are a couple of pickled green bean recipes. Here’s one more from the food blog Popsugar. If you don’t have all the spices, it’s ok. Just use what’s at hand. And if you just want to turn these into refrigerator pickles, then you can skip the information about sterilizing and processing the jar and just refrigerate after the brine has cooled.
You can multiply this recipe by the number of jars of beans you want to fill.
New York Times ran a series on mocktails and I particularly like this one.
Craig Richards of St. Cecilia demoed this recipe at the Peachtree Road Farmers Market. Love the combination of melon, cucumber and peppers.