Happy Friday!
Now that I am working at the Farmer’s Market, Fridays always leave me with a bit of panic because I know that the next two days will be tight to fit everything in. I was a busy little bee on Canada Day preparing for the market. The weather report is finally calling for some hot and sunny weather on Saturday, so I hope it will be a good showing despite being a long weekend.
New flavours for sampling at the market this week will be Classic (chunky peanut butter) and Present (cranberry pumpkin spice)!
For Canada Day dinner, Eric helped me make a use-up-the-CSA-veggies stir-fry.
Cute as a button.
Eric is a good chopper! He has culinary talents just waiting to be cultivated.
All kinds of veggies went into the skillet….zucchini, asparagus, mushrooms, green onion, garlic scapes, diced tomatoes, and seasonings.
Sweet ‘n Spicy Zucchini, Asparagus, and Potato Stir-fry
Ingredients:
- 1 tbsp cold-pressed sunflower oil
- 10-15 asparagus spears, broken at the ends
- 1 large zucchini
- 1.5-2 cups canned diced tomatoes
- 3 large green onions
- 1 garlic scape
- 2 red potatoes
- Sea salt, to taste
- 1 tbsp pure maple syrup
- Tiny bit of Arvinda’s curry masala (just to add a pop of heat)
- Freshly ground black pepper
- 3 minute vegan parmesan cheeze, for garnish
Directions: Chop all veggies and throw into a skillet with 1 tbsp of oil heated on medium. In a small bowl mix the seasonings with the canned tomatoes and stir well. Pour over the veggies and mix. Cook for about 30 minutes until potatoes are tender. Serve with 3 minute vegan parmesan cheeze.
I had it with some seedy + savoury Glo Doughs. The meal was fantastic! So much flavour and so energizing.
Speaking of CSA’s…
No mystery ingredients this week! Tomato, red potatoes, 2 spinach, 2 zucchini, mushrooms, 2 asparagus, cabbage, and a huuuuuge green onion.
No garlic snakes! It looks like we might be past season now… :ermm:
By the way, last week when I posted this green below a few of you said that you didn’t think this was fennel. Now I am not sure what it is! I could have sworn the farmer said fennel, but it doesn’t look like fennel pictures online unless it is some other variation…
I also was behaving like some sort of crazed fan so it’s possible I heard the farmer wrong in all the excitement!!
Any guesses?
After dinner we headed out on our bikes for a 4 mile bike ride…
Summer is served.
Going on bike rides in the summer always reminds me of being a kid!
This time Eric went ahead of me on the trail and I fell way behind. Remember the other night when I said I was super fast on the rocky trail? Well, apparently I wasn’t. :lol:
It is a JUNGLE in there now. I won’t even tell you how many cobwebs I biked through!
Eric was so far ahead of me on the trail that he went down a side trail (unbeknownst to me) and he jumped out and scared me when I biked past him. Needless to say my speed picked up after that!
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The veggies from your CSA just looks incredible. Sigh. I wish I liked veggies. I need them force-fed to me for a few weeks or something.
I could do an intervention…maybe Food Network will pick it up…? lol
Let’s do it.
Yummy Canada day dinner! Good luck tomorrow! I bet lots of people will be out :)
I also have veggie envy. I wish there were a CSA around me that let you chose the foods you got. I just know that if I left it up to them I’d get the few veggies I hate (but are grown in abundance), namely garlic and onions. Ick!
I’m keeping my fingers crossed you get beautiful weather tomorrow. Your meals always look delish. Have a great day! :)
That mystery green looks like purslane to me!
http://img4.sunset.com/i/2009/05/purslane-l.jpg
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3741/is_n12_v40/ai_13298112/
Good luck tomorrow! I’m sure you’ll sell tons of your goodies:)
That bike ride sounds fun. Haha.
Good luck at the market tomorrow!
I think it looks a bit like watercress? Although fennel and watercress do not sound the same ;) Have a good day!
I hate it when my hubs hides and scares me on trails like that! Aren’t they silly! :)
Umm – amazing! haha Those mushrooms look awesome.
Seriously that dinner looks so yummy that I am going to the Farmers Market this weekend to get all the veggies to make it!
Love trail riding! How fun :)
I looooove me a good veggie stir-fry. I love how you guys get an awesome variety of veggies every week… Jealous! :D
Wei-Wei
Husbands!! Mine did that to me on the boardwalk in SFO – though he convinced the ‘Bush Man’ guy (long story, but google and you should get the info) to scare me . .. so he could claim he was just a third party. It wasn’t so much the scaring as the storyline he used to get me to walk past the Bush Man – he knows me too well!
I am pretty sure with the long weekend and people slowing down, plus nice weather, you should get a huge turnout at the market.
mmm…your csa batch this time looks great!!
what a fun bike ride!! it looks super refreshing!
Hi Angela,
I think what you have there in your CSA is wood sorrel, or oxalis:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxalis
Very high in oxalic acid – not sure I would want to eat a whole lot of it!
Growing up, I knew it was edible but we just considered it a pretty and bitter-tasting weed.
Caitlin, you got it lady – that there is oxails :) I studied turfgrass in college and had to learn a lot of “weeds.” I love finding out how many of them are edible and TASTY!! Even the bitter ones I’ve found can be added for a special punch here and there.
Whoops! glad I double checked myself – that’s black medic (http://www.dereila.ca/dereilaimages/BlackMedic2A.jpg) oxalis has the more heart shaped leaves. I’m forever confusing these two. I also struggle with ground ivy vs. creeping charlie :/
Ahh, I looked quickly and thought I saw heart-shaped leaves! I’ve never seen fenugreek before- so interesting to meet a new herb!
Oooh! Trail riding! I wish we had trails (and trees!) here!
oh, i wouldn’t punched nate if he scared me like that! that’s one thing i’m not a fan of, especially when i’m already feeling kind of creeped out! i love your CSA bag…so many veggies! YUM!
That CSA stash is huuuuge!! I think the stash I get from my CSA is a “half-size” and it’s enough for me but I think they’re going to get bigger. The weather has been a little weird in Portland!
Question- I really want to buy some glo bars….I can’t remember, but do you offer small samples of each bar to try them out before buyign a big box of one?
I don’t currently, sorry!
Errhh oh no witht he cobwebs! I’ve ridden through them on my horse a number of times, and it is HORRIBLE!
Is there aanny way you’d take orders for your Glo Bars to the UK? I think I even know 2 shops that would stock them if I asked (they always stock things when I ask :p), but if not, just for me!> :)
I don’t ship overseas yet but hopefully some day!
haha what a practical jokester!
I HATE biking or hiking through spiderwebs. It is the worst and they are impossible to get off your face.
I LOVE stir fries. I make a really similar one to that with garam masala powder.
I want to move to Canada! I absolutely love all the backgrounds for your foods and your bike trails! I have big trail-envy!
Hey Angela! How do you make your juices? Do you use a juicer, blender, vitamix? I’d like to start making juices, but wasn’t sure which tool to get…
I have a Breville juicer :)
Wow those veggies look so yummy! I’m going to have to try making them!
Good luck at the Market this weekend!!
Hahahah I always scare my boyfriend, he hates it, but it always gives us a good laugh! I’m such a jerk. lol
I need to learn to not read your blog when I’m hungry. :P It’s like going to the supermarket on an empty stomach- sooooo many tasty things you need to try them all!!
We had a similar looking green in our CSA (Ontario as well) which was an early type of Rapini. Sorrento I think? If that is what it is the leaves taste like broccoli. Good luck!
So fun! I’m so envious of your trail riding. I LOVE trail riding, but we don’t have any trails around here:(
Oh yea, and I don’t have a bike either.
Guess I’ll just live vicariously through your trail riding and stick to pounding the pavement for myself;)
Your bike ride looks so gorgeous. I have a bike but it is definitely not the kind I’d want to be sitting on for a long time – the seat is SO uncomfortable!
Good luck tomorrow – I will be there! :)
LOVe that meal! it looks so delicious and colorful! food is so much more fun to eat when it is appealing, right??
to answer your Q about the soft serve in Hot oats, YES! I plopped it right on top of a hot bowl of oats, and it is life changing! so so so good, some of it melts, soem of it stays cold, it is quite an explosion!
happy weekend!
mmmmm i must try this!
Love the name ‘present’ for the pumpkin cran bars. So fitting because they seem like a gift to me!
Hmmm…. shiitakes, one of my favorites. Sorry I can’t help you out on the not-fennel weed, I didn’t think it was fennel either, but assumed it must be some strange variety. It almost looks like the shape of a watercress or something.
That dinner looks delish too! Can’t wait to hear how the market goes :)
LOOK at all those veggies! Color me jealous ;) That was a great idea for you to ask for a CSA supply as a gift. I think I will do that for my birthday next year.
Your stir fry looks fabulous! I love stir fries because they are different every time and never get boring!
Could it be fenugreek? Sounds a little like fennel?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/Illustration_Trigonella_foenum-graecum0_clean.jpg
http://www.nandyala.org/mahanandi/images/fenugreekleaves/menthikura1.jpg
Honestly it looks like clover to me. But I could be wrong. And I don’t really know what you would use clover for or why they would be selling it…
I agree, looks like yellow clover to me. My smart Dad says proper (i.e. Latin) name is “Medicago lupulina”, so you can try googling that one:)
I googled yellow clover and it does look VERY similar!!! Will ask tomorrow…tks :)
I love that you’ve been rocking out the farmer’s markets. I’m glad it’s supposed to be sunny for the one tomorrow! Good luck with sales!