curly red lettuce
romaine lettuce
spinach
fresh peas
strawberries
rhubarb
hot house cucumbers
3 rhubarb streusel muffins
recipe for rhubarb streusel muffins
menu:
pasta with sausage, peas and parmesan (Cook’s country magazine)
blue cheese dressed salad with cucumbers and croutons (dressing: 1/4 cup crumbled cheese, 1/4 cup mayonnaise, 1/4 cup sour cream or yogurt, 1/2 cup buttermilk)
ceasar salad with broiled chicken
green salad with white beans, bacon and maple/mustard dressing (Cooking Light magazine)
soup with spinach and tortellini
pizza with spinach/apple/garlic and blue cheese (a pizza recipe book at Mom’s house)
strawberry scones (B’s favorite, from cook’s country magazine)
something yummy with the rhubarb, I’ll look recipes up in, "Simply in Season"
and, "the Joy of Gardening Cookbook." I made the Simply in season rhubarb streusel muffins (quite similar to the ones from the CSA) from the rhubarb in my garden, I made a pie last week, if the "nothing must change!" contingent of the family start calling for their favorites, I’ll know what to make again, otherwise, I’ll try something new. I’m the only one who really loves pudding around here though, so I’d better avoid rhubarb fool, but since M loves apple sauce, rhubarb sause might be a hit.
I need to think of snack foods that are not so expencive as boxed crackers, by the time I found Grahme crackers for the kids without transfats, it got expencive, and their favorite wheat crackers are only on sale so often. The way we go through apples around here is amazing! I wonder if I can do something with potatoes? Oven fries for afternoon snack would be a huge hit, but I’d have to be awake during nap time to make them, and until the refrigerator motor wakes K up less at night, I’m napping at nap time!
Carot sticks, toast, apples slices, what if I made muffins more? What if I got B to make muffins more? Apple slices dipped in peanutbutter and honey, apple slices dipped in dolce de leche? Forget the dipping and streamline? (M will turn his beautiful blue eyes on me and make a perfectly polite request for dipping sause, then I’ll be sunk)
First, I think I need to come have dinner at your house. Yum!
Our CSA gives us popcorn in large amounts. I pop it in a brown paper bag (3 big handfuls takes 2 minutes) and then I melt 1-2 tbsp butter and pour it over. Last week the kids at 8 quarts (hmmm… is that I sign I waited too long to give them a snack?) I'll pack it in baggies when we go out, and if we're at the farm working, we can always share it with the chickens and pigs. Popcorn– the ultimate at-home healthy snack!
Annie