Plum Bread Pudding

Plum Bread Pudding

It’s September! WTF, right? Summer is almost over and everyone’s heading back to school, picking up more work, just plain buckling down. I’m pretty much out of cooking time myself, but those CSA shares keep on coming. This is a quick breakfast or dessert to use some of our perfectly ripe plums, golden eggs, and a dried-out Fairway baguette.  Though the recipe is sized for a loaf pan and about 4 generous servings, but you can also make it bigger or divide the ingredients into individual cups. For a 9×13″ pudding, double the recipe and bake 1 hour.  For 6 small cups, use the same amounts but reduce the cooking time to 15 or 20 minutes. You can make this ahead of time and serve it cold or at room temperature, or dig into it straight out of the oven. It’s easy, cheap, between-seasons seasonal cooking. Make this in honor of your frugal grandma.

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Cucumbers in Scallion Sauce

Whenever I go to Grand Sichuan, I order their Cucumbers in Scallion Sauce dish. The cool cucumber chunks bathed in this sesame-scented emerald sauce are even better than their fabled soup dumplings. Really.

So I had to re-create this dish when I got my hands on our lovely yellow cucumbers. The sauce is basically a pesto made with my trusty immersion blender, but you could also use a food processor or mortar and pestle. This version tastes pretty close to the original, but my scallions were pale and a little bitter, which serves me right for not getting them at the farm. Lesson learned, universe! I’ll be stocking up on Saturday and making this again. Continue reading

Raw Kale Salad (wait, hear me out)

Was your second week of CSA season as crazy as mine? I feel like I’ve been home about 20 minutes total in the past few days, and I haven’t gotten to do as much cooking as I’d hoped. I must admit, I have a bundle of chard and a cup of gooseberries still waiting for some attention, and I haven’t even a shadow of a plan for the 4th.

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What I Made With My Share: Turnip Mash and Wilted Greens

Editor’s note: Stacy Cowley shares her experiences trying to cook through her weekly CSA share, despite a more-than-full-time job, a husband and two troublesome cats. This is her second installment.

I’m a CSA box slacker. Between late work nights, impromptu “let’s go out” dinners and other cooking-interruptus occurrences, I entered week #2 with  provisions from week #1 still on hand.

Happily, the turnips seemed to be surviving. But I needed to use up multiple things in one go, so I hit epicurious to see what I could do with both the turnips and the attached greens.

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Anise-Hyssop Sauce Recipe

Anise Hyssop by nycnosh on Flickr

When you pick up your second share today, you’ll get a bundle of fresh anise-hyssop. What is that and how do you use it? I thought you’d never ask!

Anise-hyssop is a licorice-scented herb from the mint family, and you can use it any way you’d use mint or basil. Infuse simple syrup for lemonade, milk for ice cream, whiskey for cocktails; add its flowers to cookie dough; toss whole leaves in a salad or Thai chicken dish; layer with tomato and mozzarella; add to a pesto. Continue reading

Garlic Scape and Radish Green Pesto

Garlic Scape and Radish Green Pesto with Hanger Steak and CSA Salad

Hi CSA members! I’m Moriah and I’ll be giving you weekly recipe ideas for all of the amazing vegetables from the Red Hook Community Farm.

Now that we’re nearing the end of our first week of CSA season, you’re probably hustling to use up some of the bounty to make room for Saturday’s distribution. Let’s start out quick and easy with a pesto that uses two of the lonely little vegetables you might not immediately recognize.

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