After several years managing and writing about CSAs (Community Supported Agriculture), my top 10 tips and tricks for making the most of your CSA share, farmers’ market haul or garden bounty without letting it overwhelm you.
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This week in The Crisper Whisperer, a riff on the classic French remoulade salad using kohlrabi. Like the vegetable itself, it’s just a touch assertive.
A healthy and delicious raw beet salad with goat cheese and walnuts is a recipe for a more productive day and a longer life. For a Kennedy-quality legacy, you’re on your own.
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Mignonette granita is an elegant and unusual condiment for raw oysters inspired by 3 Forty Grill in Hoboken, NJ.
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A pair of recipes for your passive-aggressive oven: Chard Gratin and Blueberry Crisp.
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Recipe for farro salad with baby beets, beet greens, caramelized onions and feta cheese.
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Recipe for phyllo purses stuffed with fava greens, radish greens and Gorgonzola dolce. Substitute any cooking greens you like for an elegant vegetarian hors d’oeuvre.
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Recipe for an easy strawberry-rhubarb crisp with a versatile, crisp oat topping. The basic recipe for the filling and the topping can be used with any seasonal fruit, from berries to peaches to apples and pears.
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Recipe for a rustic fava bean purée adapted from Alice Waters’ The Art of Simple Food.
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Dispatch from our first experience with home canning. We canned crushed tomatoes and used them all year long.
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Quick, easy and healthy recipe for Disappearing Zucchini Orzo, adapted from the Camille Kingsolver recipe in Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle.
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Adaptable recipe for an easy fruit compote to use when you have a lot of fruit that’s a little past its peak.
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The recipe for Linguine with Beet-Roquefort Sauce that made me finally learn to love beets.
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When life gives you a zucchini patch that spreads to the compost heap, make Zucchini and Saffron Vichyssoise—and play baseball.
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Recipe for a light summer supper of sautéed beet greens and fava beans with pan-fried Halloumi cheese.
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A chilled soup of roasted tomatoes with garlic, onions and herbs makes quick work of tomatoes on the brink.
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Recipe for Garlic Scape Hummus inspired by the world’s best hummus from Olives in Princeton, NJ.
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A sweet riff on the Portuguese caldo verde, this hearty, healthy soup of kale, potatoes, white beans and chicken sausage comes together quickly and easily.
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Links to resources about green garlic, and a recipe for Basil and Green Garlic Pesto.
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Link to Mark Bittman’s article on eating less meat, and why that strategy makes extra sense for CSA members.
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This sorrel and potato soup is perfect as a first course or light lunch when the days start to warm up.
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