Boston Organics

[magid]

Small box, one-third fruit... plus extra stuff to make up for all the recent snafus.

• a large head of green leaf lettuce
  
• two biggish baby bok choi (the lighter green kind)
  
• a bunch of broccoli
  
• two leeks
  
• three biggish white baking potatoes
  
• six sweet potatoes
  
• four golden beets (I win!)
  
• a leek
  
• a cucumber
  
• a mango
  
• six navel oranges
  
• three Hamlin oranges

Now what I'd like is to have the pesky cold-thing that started yesterday gone, so I can muster the energy to cook some lovely things with this!

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Oof, sorry you are feeling ill. Perhaps a nice soup that doesn't take much watching as it cooks and would be soothing as you convalesce is in order?

I'm considering my cabbage-options for Shabbat. I seem to recall that you sometimes make coleslaw, or something like it. How do you prepare it?

[magid.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I like soup, but wasn't in the mood to make any yesterday (partly because a good soup takes longer than I was willing to wait, and partly because I wasn't thinking in soup. Also partly because it's impossible for me to make reasonable amounts of soup for one person :-). I made a spicy stir fry instead, which felt good on my sore throat, and used up the leeks, broccoli, and some of the sweet potatoes.

The cole slaw I make is more like a kim chee than a cole slaw: cut the cabbage thinly, then salt it. Rinse and drain after a while (an hour? two? not sure, but the cabbage should be a limp but still crunchy). Add shredded carrot, and dress with a mixture of soy sauce, toasted sesame oil, cayenne (or something else spicy), sugar, and I think something else I'm blanking on. Essentially, it's a hot and sweet dressing over the slightly salty cabbage.

[(Anonymous)]

Ooh, the stir fry sounds good, and I get what you mean about the spice on your sore throat. I'm glad you had energy to cook, and I hope you are feeling better.

Thanks for the great directions! I lack the dressing ingredients, so I think I'll file away your instructions for now and instead default to plain sauteed cabbage. That's what I like best, but then, in thinking about the carrots I also have, cole slaw had come to mind.

[magid.livejournal.com]

I still have a sore throat, but I'm hoping it stays just that and nothing more involved.

For the slaw dressing: I forgot rice vinegar! (How, I don't know, since it's more that than anything else.) Though sauteed cabbage sounds good, too. Or roasting chunks of it with olive oil and onions.

[(Anonymous)]

Perhaps some tea with honey? I hope so too.

I figured it might be. Good to know the relative proportion. Thanks again!

Perhaps I'll just have carrot sticks instead. Last week, carrots were a small part of a lovely chick pea salad, though.