Help!: Long on Greens
The rain and the terroir here mean wads of greens (mustard, collard, totsoi, cabbage, kales and so on) from my CSA...any suggestions? if I see another dinosaur kale, I may scream.
I made bok choy kim chee, a kind of gratin/crustless quiche, saute for pizza topping and froze lots of mixed green sautees for winter soup already. Cole slaw for a party coming up Sat.
What else?
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11 Comments:
i think you got it covered, i'd stockpile for winter at this point. i like mixing greens with white beans, lots of garlic and olive oil....
pooch at 9:52PM on 07/29/09
many food banks take fresh foods as well as canned/boxed let your good fortune be someone else's as well.
inkandsausages at 10:00PM on 07/29/09
Cabbage rolls? Sauerkraut? Frittatas? Pumpkin risotto with white beans and greens? Green smoothies? Stir fries? Salad with cabbage, toasted peanuts and sesame oil? Pesto? Mushroom ragout with greens? Collards and black-eyed peas? Peanut stew over wilted mustard greens? Homemade spinach pasta? Spanokopita with kale instead of spinach?
KarynMC at 11:00PM on 07/29/09
I like making a pot of lentils with fresh greens on Sunday then eating it for lunch or with dinner during the week. Here's a simple "recipe":
Rinse lentils (yellow split pea, french lentils, masoor daal, toor daal, really any lentil) then put in a pressure cooker with a splash of oil, a diced tomato and a diced onion. Pressure cook. In a deep pan, saute mustard seeds, dried red or green chilis, 3-4 cloves garlic diced and chopped greens (kale, collard greens, spinach, chard, etc. work). Add to the cooked lentils (if you want this to be more soup like, puree half of the lentils before you add the greens) along with salt, cayenne pepper and a splash of pepper. A teaspoon each of coriander powder and cumin powder spice this up nicely as well.
You seem to have a really good "problem" on your hands :)
nithya at hungrydesi at 9:04AM on 07/30/09
kale and smoked neck in the crockpot... oddly enough, a childhood comfort food of mine, although we tended to eat it in the winter.
Tons of kale, some smoked (pork) neck or a few ham steaks if you can't find that, salt, little bit of chicken broth. Stick it in the crockpot and that kale cooks down to nothing!
cabbage and kielbasa in the crockpot... another childhood staple... cut up cabbage, kielbasa links, caraway seeds, little bit of sliced onion... great with a grainy mustard and a beer.
wasliche at 11:39AM on 07/30/09
what pooch said
@nithya at hungrydesi - haha OH NO! "problem" lmao
hungrychristel at 2:31PM on 07/30/09
Kale chips. Roast pieces of kale at 200F for 40 minutes or so after sprinkling with olive oil and good salt.
CanadianFoodieGirl at 2:48PM on 07/30/09
make some pastelones... I usually use fresh or frozen spinach, but I guess you could use whatever you have on hand.
Baby Spinach and Potato Pastelon
Artichoke and Spinach Casserole
Sweet Plantain and Spinach Pastelon
Provencal Sandwich
MadelynRodriguez at 4:07PM on 07/30/09
Haha wow, that is a lot of greens! How about just plain salads? Here's a simple one: Kale with Parmesan, Pine Nuts and Bacon Bits.
Chew on That at 4:31PM on 07/31/09
Thanks! Gonna try the kale chips tomorrow..many suggestions a tad too wintery for this finally nice weather but I'll take them all under advisement, esp. the risotto, cabbage salad and lentil combo.
hauswriter at 8:52PM on 08/03/09
What's wrong with making collard greens? You can make those with a variety of greens and freeze them for winter.
missjess at 3:33PM on 08/08/09