What we made our first week after getting veggies from Sandhill Farms

Samantha and I picked up a "trial" basket of veggies. My first impressions on choosing which basket to take home is that each one is more beautiful than the next. As usual it took longer to get out of B'nai that planned - too much chatting ;->

At home I started unpacking. First thing I noticed was a small bag of snap peas, the kind that are totally edible - needless to say that between Izzy, Samantha, and I they were gone very quickly - so sweet & juicy!

That first night I made a salad with the greens and cooked some chicken breasts in wine, adding the small packet of fresh herbs - looked like chives, dill, marjoram, and I'm not sure what else, BUT, it tasted delicious.

Then I looked at the cooking greens (they'll get cooked a few days later with olive oil, garlic, salt, pepper, and maybe a little chicken broth). Next were the multiple colors of carrots, beets & turnips (we had them tonight - sliced, drizzled with olive oil, salt & pepper then roasted on the grill along with the flank steak. Vic is certainly getting to be quite the master of his Big Green Egg!

Salad greens!!! Including edible flowers for a beautiful spot of color. The lettuce was gorgeous! Absolutely no waste - the outside tough very dirty leaves had already been trimmed away. The leaves needed a bit of a rinse to get the rest of the sand/soil off, but a quick spin in our salad spinner dried them off. I tend to only was the lettuce I plan to use for salad that day.

The fermented okra pickle - YUMMY!!! Similar to a real sour pickle from the pickle barrel - crunchy and delicious.

There was also a small bag of "young" spinach which I included in a quinoa pilaf with onions, mushrooms, and sweet potatoes which I brought over to some friends for dinner.

It is Tuesday - we still have some lettuce & the cooking greens. Maybe tomorrow will be greens with chicken sausage & pasta.

Happy Eating!

Alicia