The return of spaghetti squash gives me the chance to offer one more recipe – Spicy Spaghetti Squash with Shrimp – from Southern Living. Sort of like shrimp and grits but with spaghetti squash.
Recipes
(2022) Radish and Butter Spread
This compound butter recipe came from allrecipes.com.
(2022) Roasted Poblano Strips with Cream (Rajas a la Crema)
This week’s box included a small bag of hot peppers with jalapenos, habaneros, and poblanos. The heat in poblanos can vary – sometimes mild, sometimes hot. This recipe came my way from the Splendid Table and is originally from Rick Bayless’ cookbook More Mexican Everyday. I like to save up my poblanos until I have enough for this recipe, but you could also substitute some bell peppers. The recipe suggests using the rajas as part of a vegetarian taco filling. We did that, then enjoyed the remainder in a creamy chicken dish later in the week. In addition to vegetarian tacos, rajas are the perfect accompaniment to grilled meat or fish tacos, to steak or pork chops, or to grilled, sauteed, or broiled fish or chicken.
(2022) Sausage & New Potato Salad with Mustard Vinaigrette
And for the potatoes, I’m going to make this Sausage and New Potato Salad with Mustard Vinaigrette, also from The Cook’s Warehouse. These cooler evenings put me in the mood for dishes with smoked sausage. And it’s a chance to use some of those bountiful peppers from today’s box.
(2022) Tempura Fried Okra
For the okra, I’m going to make Tempura Fried Okra using this recipe from The Cook’s Warehouse. Our bag of okra isn’t a pound, but that’s ok.
(2022) Creamed Eggplant (Baba Ganouj)
Here’s a simple recipe for baba ghanoush from Madhur Jaffrey’s World Vegetarian. Anyone lacking inspiration for eggplants would benefit from simply reading this cookbook’s index of twenty-some eggplant recipes! Wishing I had more eggplants now.
(2022) Tomato Vinaigrette
With that one tomato, I’m going to try this Tomato Vinaigrette recipe from Emily Nunn of The Department of Salad. She adapted the recipe from “Williams-Sonoma Cooking at Home.” I’ve still got two red onions from past boxes, so I’ll put part of one to good use here.
(2022) Warm Okra and Tomato Salad
And finally, a different salad – this one with okra because I still have some of last week’s box of cherry tomatoes. It’s a recipe from the Washington Post.
(2022) Roasted Squash with Tahini and Herb Salad
Also in our box were three delicata squash and I’ve got a great recipe, appended below, for this lovely squash that doesn’t need peeling before you enjoy it – Roasted Delicata Squash with Tahini and Herb Salad from Martha Stewart Living about 5 years ago. Try the poblano pepper in this instead of the serrano. Won’t be as hot, but definitely flavorful.
(2022) Spaghetti Squash Slaw with Mint, Hazelnuts, and Pomegranate
I found this spaghetti squash slaw recipe at seriouseats.com. That’s what I’m doing with ours this week – but using chopped pecans instead of hazelnuts because the hazelnuts I had in the freezer went into baklava for a recipe we’re publishing in the AJC next week. I’ll probably skip the pomegranate seeds as it’s not really pomegranate season and I am never pleased with those packaged pomegranate seeds in the produce section.