Well, The CSA Ended For The Season And I'm Bummed!

The CSA ended the week of Thanksgiving. It happened to be one of the best pick-ups all season. We got baby sweet potatoes that were the sweetest things ever. I roasted them with some parsnips we also received, then drizzled on some honey and sesame seeds. This is a traditional Japanese street food called "University Potatoes."

Roasted Sweet Potatoes with Honey and Sesame Seeds, Typical Japanese Street Food

I made a seriously amazing Asian Slaw with almost all CSA ingredients, and some stuff from my garden. I used the napa, the bok choy, garlic, cilantro, scallions, jalapeno, mint, then added ginger, rice wine vinegar and olive oil.

Seriously Awesome Asian Slaw

We did get a lot of cabbage at then end, so there was another slaw I made last night from the last of my white cabbage. It was shredded cabbage, a diced apple, diced red onion. The dressing was 2 TBSP of mayo, 1 tsp of dijon, zest of 1 lime, juice of 1 lime, olive oil, salt and pepper. Then garnished with mint I still had.

Last Head of Cabbage With Mint and Lime

With the celeriac, I made a classic French remoulade. The kind that appears on every lunch plate in France. Basically shredded celeriac, and a dijon mustard dressing. My kids wouldn't touch this, oh well. Rob and I loved it! The hardest part was peeling the celery root!

Celery Root Remoulade

And then I made a wonderful salad with the turnips. Melissa Clark, one of my favorite food writers who cooks seasonally from her local farmer's market, and writes about it in the NY Times, recently had an article on turnips. Usually they're roasted. Well she decided to shave them thin on a mandoline and eat them raw atop some arrugula. Since I had 2 turnips, I tried this and they were wonderful raw!

Thinly Shaved Turnips with Arrugula Salad

All I have left is some napa and I'm going to make kimchi, again, of course!. The 2 jars I made are almost gone and the stuff keeps for 6 months if kept in a Ball jar. I'm counting the days until the CSA starts again, but in the meantime, I still have herbs in my herb garden. Arielle came home from school with some string beans in a pot. I put the plant in a sunny window and it's about to flower! We'll see what we get. My parents gave me 5 old windows and I was going to make a cold frame, but it never happened. I plan to do it in the Spring and start early!! I was thinking of trying it now and putting that string bean plant under it, but now with snow predicted for overnight, we'll wait til Spring.