Just the three of us

Last week we shared our CSA box, minus Patrick who was away on a retreat. The box as usual was full of tasty goodies as you can see below. Morgon Mae brought over some garbanzo beans and we sauted some garlic and wilted the arugula in with the beans for a protein main course. There were six ears of sweet corn that we cooked, and were very buttery sweet. The cherry tomatoes were an orange variety and we popped them in our mouths greedily. We enjoyed some raw beans from our garden too. The small bag of edamame (soy beans) we got in the CSA box was put into boiling water for a few minutes and just a touch of salt was added to them when served.

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The Manchurian Candidate (for best use of cauliflower)

We made this Manchurian-Style Cauliflower the other night from our Driftless cauliflower, and it was really delicious. We used the roasted variation for the sake of time/mess, but deep fried would probably win out. The whole recipe is in the preview for Mark Bittman's "How to Cook Everything Vegetarian" cookbook at Google books, so there is no reason to not try it out.



Plus the book rules, so you should really just buy it when you are done stuffing your face with the cauliflower.

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Pickles==good

After eight long days of waiting, I pulled out the Drifltless pickling cucumbers from the crock today. This is the first cucumber pickling run for my new crock, and I was curious to see how they would turn out.



Delicious is how I would say they turned out. I put in mustard seed, black peppercorns, bay leaves, dried red pepper, cloves, cinnamon stick, and some fresh dill from the back yard. I totally winged the spice amounts, and went a little heavy on the cloves, but all around a good flavor.

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