Ginger - Peanut Veggie Wraps

1 chopped seeded peeled cucumber
1 chopped red bell pepper
1/2 cup shredded carrots

1 1/2 Tbsp sugar
1 Tbsp minced peeled fresh ginger
3 Tbsp fresh lime juice
1 Tbsp low-sodium soy sauce
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp ground red pepper
1 garlic clove, crushed
1/4 cup creamy peanut butter
2 Tbsp water

chopped fresh cilantro

Tortillas

chopped romaine lettuce

Place cucumber, carrots and bell pepper in a large bowl; set aside. Place sugar and the next 6 ingredients (sugar through garlic) in a blender, and process until smooth. Add peanut butter and water; process until smooth, scraping sides. Add peanut butter mixture to vegetable mixture; stir well. Add cilantro, and toss well.

Spoon vegetable mixture onto each tortilla; top each serving with lettuce, and roll up.

CSA Chronicles - Week 3

This week's box contained the following:

Baby White Turnips
Broccoli
Garlic Scapes
Kohlrabi

Napa Cabbage

Red Lettuce

Scallions

Snow Peas

Strawberries

Sugar Snap Peas

Summer Squash

I used the broccoli florets, napa cabbage, garlic scapes, green onions ans squash in a stir fry over brown rice.

I made a slaw type salad with the Kohlrabi and Broccoli stalks.

Broccoli, Kohlrabi and Apple Salad

Dressing

1.5 Tbsp apple cider vinegar

1.5 Tbsp brown sugar

1 Tbsp oil

Salad

1 Kohlrabi bulb, peeled and shredded

3 broccoli stalks, shredded

1 green apple, chopped fine

2 carrots, shredded

Mix the dressing and toss with the vegetables and fruit. Chill for at least an hour.

My Child's Menu (as of June 2007)

I'm trying to start my little girl on the right path to healthy eating (most of the time...). Here is a snapshot of what she is eating these days.



Breakfast

• Pumpkin Bread, Kashi Go-Lean Blueberry Waffles, Cheerios with Rice Milk, Kashi Autumn Wheat (known in our house as Cow Cereal, since the box lately has a cow on the back)with Rice Milk, Oatmeal (plain)


• Fresh Fruit: banana, strawberries, pineapple, kiwi, peaches, grapes, watermelon, ripe pear

Lunch/Dinner

Main Dish

• Pizza-dilla - whole wheat tortilla with cheese and tomato sauce
• Cheese quesadilla - above without tomato sauce
• Whole wheat pasta and tomato sauce (Muir Glen Garlic Roasted Garlicc is our latest favorite)
• Annie's Organic Whole Wheat shells and cheese
• Trader Joe's veggie meatballs
• Boca Chik'n nuggets
• Pizza
• Meat (lately it's the Hormel Nitrite Free Turkey) and Cheese
• Brown Rice (she likes it plain)
• Scrambled Eggs with cheese
• Quinoa
• Hummus with tortillas or cracker for dipping
• Cubed Avocado

Sides

• Fruit
• Applesauce
• Raw Veggies - she'll nibble on carrots, red peppers, sugar snap peas and celery
• Ketchup - she LOVES Muir Glen ketchup on anything
• Triscuits

Snacks

• Graham Crackers
• Triscuits
• Apple
• Whole Grain Goldfish
• Cheerios
• String Cheese
• Raisins and Dried Cranberries
• Banana (she LOVES frozen bananas)

She won't eat the following (and I've tried!)

• Cooked vegetables
• Mashed or baked potatoes
• Sunflower Seed butter (like peanut butter)
• Yogurt
• Beans of any kind - pinto, black, navy, garbanzo
• Blueberries
• Cantaloupe
• Plain, Un-buttered Popcorn
• Chocolate
• Condiments beyond ketchup

Random things I've discovered she likes...

• Green Tea (plain and ginger flavor)
• Caribou Coffee Coolers
• Pumpkin Seeds
• Jelly Belly jelly beans
• 1 or 2 lettuce leaves from my spring mix salad
• Don Pablo's salsa

CSA Chronicles - Week 2

This week's box contained the following:

• Lettuce
• Spinach
• Salad Mix
• Green Onions
• Kohlrabi
• Strawberries
• Garlic Scapes
• Sugar Snap Peas

I'm making a stir-fry tonight with the kohlrabi, sugar snap peas, spinach, green onions and garlic scapes. I've been eating salads with the lettuce and salad mix.

CSA Chronicles - Week 1

We've joined a CSA this year with Harmony Valley Farms. I'm going to do my best to chronicle the produce we receive each week along with the recipes/prep methods I used for each vegetable.

Week 1 Produce:
Arugula - mixed with hot pasta, olive oil, Parmesan cheese and garlic scapes until just wilted.
Asparagus - used as pizza topping along with red peppers
Elephant Onions - so far, haven't used. Look like green onions.
Garlic Scapes - used in the arugula pasta, the asparagus pizza and sauteed with spinach
Greens (Saute Mix) - will use in a stir fry, along with kohlrabi and elephant onions
Kohlrabi - sliced and peeled. Using for snacking and will likely make a stir-fry with some
Radishes - not a fan of radishes. Tried a bite and, yep, still don't like them. Will give to a coworker
Red Leaf Lettuce - using for salad greens.
Strawberries - eating straight out of the box!

Broccoli and Apple Slaw

Tart, sweet and surprisingly tasty.

1/2 (12 oz) package of broccoli slaw
1 green apple, diced
1/2 c dried cranberries

3 Tbsp brown sugar
3 Tbsp apple cider vinegar
1 Tbsp vegetable oil
salt and pepper to taste

Mix dressing ingredients and toss with slaw, apple and cranberries.

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