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Watercress

2016 CSA Winter February 6

2016 CSA Winter February 6 Planet Earth Diversified

 

  • Mixed Field Greens
  • Baby Salad Mix
  • Baby Arugula
  • Baby Red Sorrel
  • Baby Green Sorrel
  • Dill
  • Chervil
  • Cilantro
  • Lemongrass
  • Butternut Squash
  • Sweet Potatoes
  • Watercress pesto
Watercress

Watercress

Pesto

Pesto

Special for you! Fresh ground watercress pesto…try this as a dollop in the middle of a pureed sorrel soup (add sauté onion) and dab at it with hot toasty French bread (with butter)…um, yum! Will give a nice tone to the crisp flavor of the sorrel by deepening it with earth and pepper textures. Use the tang of the sorrel to your advantage and serve with a side of chopped garden greens…the pesto can shine here, too, just add olive oil or yogurt to create a salad dressing to match. Garnish the soup with your best health oil, i use flax for my mental health, and serve it hot.
Watercress pesto is one of the world’s healthiest foods…from the way we grow the watercress to the way we hand-grind each batch, great care is given to create the most potentiality for taste and nutrition. Known for being a peppery, dark, leafy green that grows with a wet foot along creeks and ditches, we bring it up off the ground and grow it on benches…it cascades over the sides, looking for more footing. This herb brought a happy smile to my face whilst i was hiking high in Western New Mexico…the excruciating altitude change had brought on a massive headache and i sought comfort in shaded wet rocks along a creek run. There, nestled calmly and absolutely was the watercress. What a relief to see such a welcome plant from home! I checked up stream and around about, found the land to be in use for cattle, probably a land management deal, and set about getting a clean cut. That cut was just magnificent. With time, water, watercress and rest, i was able to move onward. We hope that if you find yourself in a place of need or hunger, you will turn to the watercress pesto as a spread for tortillas or pizza instead of store-bought snacks and see how quickly your outlook turns around! To your health and pleasure, always, love, leslie.

2016 CSA winter January 30

2016 CSA winter January 30 Planet Earth Diversified

•   Baby Salad Mix
•   Baby Arugula
•   Chard
•   Baby Red Sorrel
•   Baby green sorrel
•   Chervil
•   Cilantro
•   Dill
•   Basil pesto
•   Lemongrass
•   Butternut Squash
•   Sweet Potatoes

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All kinds of Yummy choices this week from veggies like butternut squash and sweet potatoes thru herbs like chervil and dill to the wonderful and our famous Baby Arugula! When Michael and I want an affectionate term for things going well we say “Arugula!”
Also note this week the sorrels add a tangy treat to smoothies like strawberry and banana blueberry etc. Hope you made it through the stormy cold ok and we look forward to bringing next week goodies to the foreground. Leslie
Red Sorrel was introduced to us by the awesome Mike Perry of Harvest Moon Catering. My brother rocks the house! and boy, some yummy creations…thank you!! Sorrel is the flavor we usually reserve for fish steaks, Cut from the side like a sandwich roll, pesto smeared inside, baked, and topped with balsamic reduced/roasted pecans. Finish this dish with a scoop of rice, with a tablespoon of pesto added to the water of the rice in prep. Voila! Have fun with your garnish, maybe you have an edible flowering shrub around, or how about a sprig of the dill this week. Bed the fish on your mixed field greens and you have a classic PED meal. This week’s pesto flavor is one of my all time favorite, not because it is so popular, but because it is so helpful. Milk Thistle! the ultimate mother of cleaning…the liver that is. And with our liver tied to so much, use this pesto just as you would any other, slather it on sandwiches, pasta, pizza, in a frittata, a quiche, the possibility is endless in the kitchen. And it is much more fun that that medicine cabinet!

2016 CSA winter January 20/24

2016 CSA winter         January 20-24       PlanetEarthDiversified               

FIRST MAJOR SNOW STORM 2016

We are sending CSA out early so you have it if you’re snowed in Friday and Saturday

  • ·         Mixed Field Greens
  • ·         Tuscan Kale Greens
  • ·         Baby Red Sorrel
  • ·         Chervil
  • ·         Cilantro
  • ·         Dill
  • ·         Milk Thistle pesto
  • ·         Rose Geranium
  • ·         Butternut Squash
  • ·         Sweet Potatoes
  • ·         Pea Shoots

Surprise! Don’t throw those ribs away! No im not talking about pork or beef but sweet pea shoots. These often discarded parts are sweet right now and serve as a luscious replacement for celery stalks. Try it! you just might like it 😉 Of course the leaf is sweet and serves both th health and palate of the practitioner. As a vegetarian i appreciate the ability of sweet pea to remind me of spring even in the dead of winter. Heat you up as it cools you off, pea shoots are a wonderful medicine.

Pea shoot greens can be added to your juice routine if you are wanting a savory twist with say lemon or orange. Great straw treat while making lunch or dinner, and can invigorate some creative juices.

Red Sorrel was introduced to us by the awesome Mike Perry of Harvest Moon Catering. My brother rocks the house! and boy, some yummy creations…thank you!! Sorrel is the flavor we usually reserve for fish steaks, Cut from the side like a sandwich roll, pesto smeared inside, baked, and topped with balsamic reduced/roasted pecans. Finish this dish with a scoop of rice, with a tablespoon of pesto added to the water of the rice in prep. Voila! Have fun with your garnish, maybe you have an edible flowering shrub around, or how about a sprig of the dill this week. Bed the fish on your mixed field greens and you have a classic PED meal. This week’s pesto flavor is one of my all time favorite, not because it is so popular, but because it is so helpful. Milk Thistle! the ultimate mother of cleaning…the liver that is. And with our liver tied to so much, use this pesto just as you would any other, slather it on sandwiches, pasta, pizza, in a frittata, a quiche, the possibility is endless in the kitchen. And it is much more fun that that medicine cabinet! Yall stay well this wet weekend, and know we are thinking of you and what may inspire you… let us know!