CSA Week 20

Cilantro, sweet potatoes, red leaf lettuce, golden cauliflower, broccoli, delicata, collards, potatoes, and eggplants.

From left: cilantro, sweet potatoes, red leaf lettuce, golden cauliflower, broccoli, delicata, collards, potatoes, and eggplants.

Week 20 One Straw Farm CSA was another big one, and made me realize that I better start squirreling some of this fresh food away for the winter. I’m already mourning the end of this adventure, which ceases in a mere 6 weeks. I spent the week prepping and either cooking or storing any accumulated stuff, knowing how fully I am going to miss the weekly CSA drop-off! This week brought red leaf lettuce, cilantro, collard greens, broccoli, sweet potatoes, potatoes, delicata squash (remember: you can eat the rind!), eggplants, and a gorgeous golden cauliflower. This week’s recipe merges some of last week’s ingredients with this week’s and takes us all the way to Africa, for a delicious vegetarian Ethiopian dish.

Tikil Gomen (Ethiopian Cabbage Stew)

Normally this dish would be lovely shades of ochres and orange, but my purple cabbage made it more colorful---and I like it!

Normally this dish would be lovely shades of ochres and orange, but my purple cabbage made it more colorful—and I like it!

Ready in 1 hour (including prep); serves 6

Ingredients

2 tbsp olive oil (or Ethiopian or regular ghee)

4 carrots, thinly sliced
1 onion, thinly sliced
2 tsp sea salt
1/2 tsp ground black pepper
1 tsp ground cumin
1/2–1 tsp ground turmeric
1 head cabbage, shredded
5–7 potatoes, peeled and cut into 1-inch cubes

Preparation

  1. Heat the olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Cook the carrots and onion in the hot oil, about 5 minutes.
  2. Stir in the salt, pepper, cumin, turmeric, and cabbage and cook another 1o minutes.
  3. Add the potatoes; cover. Reduce heat to medium-low and cook until potatoes are soft, 20 to 30 minutes.

From Allrecipes.com

  

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