This Week’s Produce

WOW…you don’t hear from me for a whole week and then three posts in one day!  I am seriously making up for lost time here today.

Here is another week of beautiful produce…and I may not be doing a good job of keeping up with the blogging but I am managing to keep up with the fruits and veggies!

This week I got:

 

which translates to:

• potatoes
• lettuce (butter?)
• Roma tomatoes
• Crimini mushrooms
• a bunch of parsley
• cucumber
• broccoli
• escarole
• acorn squash
• onions
• shallots
• eggplant
• blueberries
• lemons
• apples
• pears
• Galia melon (new for me…looks like a mini cantalope!)
• tangelos
• straberries
• mangos
• raspberries
• oranges
• pineapple

Lots of good salad stuff in there!

I have found the green bags to be a great help in making the produce last other than the herbs.  For these I stick them in a cup with water, like flowers in a vase, and they seem to last a couple of weeks that way!

I have also found if I wash my lettuce as soon as I can, tear it up, spin in the salad spinner until dry and store in the green bags that it is much easier to grab a handful or three to make salads for lunch or dinner, and more apt to get used.  It took me until yesterday to do this week’s batch…but it finally was done.  I washed/spun/tore both the lettuce and the escarole and just mixed them together!

Then…using anything I could grab to throw in there…from last week and this week…I made this:

This thing is HUGE!  Wouldn’t even fit on the plate so I had to use a Gladware bowl.  I had the same thing yesterday and today….and made it for lunch for FabHubs yesterday.  He was thrilled. (Can you see the sarcasm dripping from those words?)  But I made it so he ate it (insert an evil gleeful triumphant cackling sound here!)

So what is in this?  Glad you asked!

• Escarole
• Some kind of lettuce, I think butter but I am not sure
• Carrot
• Daikon
• Mushroom
• Tomato
• Red Bell Pepper
• Celery
• Shredded beets (I shredded a whole bunch on my KitchenAid this weekend and kept them for week-long salad use!)
• Cucumber
• Maybe something else but I cannot remember!

On top I sprinkled a small handful of roasted cashews…and then I warmed some seitan pieces in a pan (those are the meat-looking things) and add those on top.   The fat and protein in these two things will help keep me going until dinner!  I hope.  Well, that is the plan anyway!

I dressed this whole nekkid thing with the current love of my salad life…Thai Peanut Dressing!  I am out of it now (sniff sniff) and am going to try to duplicate that recipe in the next few weeks (found a recipe in my Everything Vegetarian cookbook!!) so I don’t have to travel all the way to Norman Brothers market (small, privately-owned specialty market) and pay a king’s ransom to get it.

A yummy, healthy, filling lunch!