Eaters - 10 Compost - 0 Carry Over - 1
This was a week that my husband picked up the box, and unlike me, he took it 'as is.' Often, I take one or two items that are hard sells with the family, and exchange them at the farmer's market for ingredients that I know that will be well received. Seeing as it was our last official week of the year, however, it seemed like a reasonable challenge to accept the box as it was. Interestingly, a few items that almost certainly would have hit the compost nine months ago were not that hard to integrate into our meal plan for the week. We ate up everything this week, with the exception of a few avocados that weren't quite ripe enough to consume, but they will definitely get gobbled up in the coming week as we all love avocados.
The Best
- Surprisingly, we all loved this very simple sausage, white bean and swiss chard soup. This was a delicious, quick alternative to the Italian wedding soup that took many hours to prepare several months back. This may have been the first time that our entire family willingly ate swiss chard at the same seating!
The Good
- While it was a little bitter for the kids, the grown ups quite enjoyed the Indian style mustard greens and spinach. Served with some brown rice, curried chicken, and homemade naan, I was pleased to find a recipe we liked using mustard greens.
- While quite simple in many ways, this Thai-spiced salad could act a great base for a number of proteins.
- Arugula on pizza is fantastic! We all loved this recipe with fig jam and prosciutto.
- Never one to want to waste, I took our left over curry chicken, mixed it with some shallots, golden raisins, crushed cashews and a bit of mayonnaise to make a yummy and pretty curry chicken salad.
- Using lemons from the box and our backyard, I made this tart and tasty lemon bar recipe. I could eat these every day.
