First delivery of the Spring/Summer season from Avalon Acres! If you live in the Nashville area and want to join a CSA, this is a great one -- includes truly free-range meat, eggs, pasta, jams/jellies, etc., along with locally-grown, pesticide-free produce. The fresh strawberries are almost gone and so is half of that bok choy and a large head of farm broccoli after last night's dinner with my parents (udon noodles with steamed broccoli and carrots in sesame-peanut sauce and pork chops with bacon and bok choy, homemade vanilla yogurt and fresh strawberries).
I have lots of spinach in my garden and a big bag from Avalon, so I think I will do a spinach-pasta dish this week and that is as far as I've gotten with the planning. Avgolemono is a possibility since I have some lovely, farm-raised chicken breasts in the freezer. I also have not made broccoli soup for the kids yet, so that is an option. One terrific use for spinach and other greens: smoothies! They taste terrific and my kids love them. They get a kick out of eating greens that way....and so do I since that is the only way they actually consume greens thus far.
In case you have not yet figured it out, the "Inside My Fridge" picture is an exercise that forces me to inventory and tidy my refrigerator. Doing this weekly reduces waste and gives me an opportunity to be creative with meals instead of resorting to fish sticks or "the box" as the tubular pasta and dried, processed cheesefood is known in our house. A little planning goes a long way.
Love the new spring heading picture!
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