Meal Plan | Week of 12-15-13

South Coast Farms CSA | Fall Quarter Week 7

In this week's organic CSA box, I received the following:

• Baby turnips
• Radishes
• Fresh herbs including parsley, cilantro, and dill
• Oranges They are curiously yellow like lemons
• Grapefruits
• Fuyu persimmons
• Fuji apples 
• Spinach
• Arugula
• Rainbow Chard
• Spaghetti squash
• Potatoes I traded in a couple heads of lettuce to double my portion
• Onion
• Celery

Recipe Ideas

• Entrees
• Homemade Gnocchi
• Spaghetti Squash Lasagna with ground bison (instead of turkey)
• Flank steak I bought two (1.5-1.75 lb. steaks, each) from Costco
• Asian-style flank steak with sautéed rainbow chard
• Grilled flank steak with herb salsa verde
• Thai-style flank steak
• Flank steak with shallots and red wine sauce
• Sauces
• Herb salsa verde, or chimichurri
• Sides
• Brown butter baby turnips
• Rosemary & dill roasted carrots
• Spicy radishes
• Arugula salad with proscuitto and persimmons (see tweet below)
• Waldorf-ish salad (spinach, apples, walnuts)
• Breakfast
• Grapefruit brûlée
• Banana Orange Smoothie
• Desserts
• Orange Olive Oil Cake

Persimmons in your salad? Yes! Inspired by Bruno's (Brea). Fuyu, arugula, parm, prosciutto, lemon vinaigrette pic.twitter.com/S8I6QCOxLB
— Succulent Succotash (@asucculentblog) December 10, 2013