greens identification

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Well friends, I will probably be asking for some quick help in the next 20+ wks. We joined a local community agricultural co-op and get a weekly bushel basket (box). Wow, lots of great stuff! But I don't know exactly what I have gotten a few times. My current question is what is the large oak leaf shaped green with a red mid-vein? I cooked it up as a green with Vidalia onion, and garlic scapes that came also in the box. What else can you do with greens? I need some quick recipes. Greens are great cooked up, but I want some variety since there is so much.

 

I also got some carrots with the green tops attached. Aren't the tops poisonous? I vaguely remember reading something like that, but maybe it wasn't carrot tops. We ate the beet tops, but what about radish tops? What are some things you can do with radishes besides salads (beautiful babies--varicolored, incl purplish, red, pink, white and brown). I put four in a stir fry, and the rest are sitting there.

 

Thanks ahead of time-- I know I can count on this group to give me some ideas.

 

Peggy

 

 

 

 

 

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Welcome to the wonderful world of CSAs -- you're going to have a lot of

fun (and challenges!).

 

Your unidentified green sounds like kale to me. Did it look like one

of these: http://www.writerguy.com/deb/recipes/recipe%20jpegs/kale.jpg

?

 

Carrot tops are perfectly edible but, in my experience, don't have any

especially notable flavor. They're nutritious though. I've added them

to soups in the past and couldn't really taste them. Until recently I

usually gave mine to my son to feed to his rabbit, but he no longer has

the rabbit so I'm not sure what I'll do with them when we start getting

them again.

 

Radish greens are edible, too, but I confess I've never eaten them.

Try this search for some recipe suggestions: "radish top recipes"

(without the quotation marks).

 

Good luck!

 

 

pkinnetz wrote:

 

 

 

My current question is what is the large oak leaf shaped green

with a red mid-vein? I cooked it up as a green with Vidalia onion, and

garlic scapes that came also in the box. What else can you do with

greens? I need some quick recipes. Greens are great cooked up, but I

want some variety since there is so much.

 

I also got some carrots with the green tops attached. Aren't the

tops poisonous? I vaguely remember reading something like that, but

maybe it wasn't carrot tops. We ate the beet tops, but what about

radish tops? What are some things you can do with radishes besides

salads (beautiful babies--varicolored, incl purplish, red, pink,

white and brown). I put four in a stir fry, and the rest are sitting

there.

 

Thanks ahead of time-- I know I can count on this group to give

me some ideas.

 

Peggy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Advice.

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Hi Peggy

It sounds like you might have gotten some Swiss chard.

 

here's a picture of chard:

http://www.jungleseeds.com/images/SwissChardBL.jpg

 

Susan's blog has a great Swiss chard pie recipe

http://blog.fatfreevegan.com/2009/06/savory-swiss-chard-pie.html

 

Good luck with your boxes! I wish I lived near a CSA.

 

Take care,

Mary

 

 

, pkinnetz wrote:

My current question is what is the large

> oak leaf shaped green with a red mid-vein? I cooked it up as a green

> with Vidalia onion, and garlic scapes that came also in the box. What

> else can you do with greens?