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What to do with the vegetable deluge?
Aug. 9th, 2010 10:56 amI know I'm not the only one on my friends list who feels inundated with produce right now, so I wanted to share some favorite recipes that are great for using it up before it goes bad!
It's almost cliche to feel drowned in squash at this time of year. Here's one good way to use it up as well as another use for basil beside making pesto. It's especially nice because many squash soups call for winter squash, and this one is made for summer squash like zucchini, crooknecks and pattypan:
Summer Squash Soup with Basil
And this may be obvious, but two other dishes that can use a lot of produce include
a) homemade veggie-heavy chili (vegetarian or with meat) with peppers, corn, tomato, fresh cilantro and oregano, onions/green onions/chives. Super easy in the crockpot and doesn't heat up your kitchen too much when it's hot out.
b) omelets! Use up your herbs, kale, zucchini, etc.
And here's one more versatile recipe for using up lots of veggies that also tastes awesome and is easy to make:
Peanut-Ginger Noodles - just swap in fresh veggies for the suggested frozen ones. Veggies that work well in this include carrots, green beans, spinach, cabbages of all types (Asian and regular), onion, peppers, squash.
It's almost cliche to feel drowned in squash at this time of year. Here's one good way to use it up as well as another use for basil beside making pesto. It's especially nice because many squash soups call for winter squash, and this one is made for summer squash like zucchini, crooknecks and pattypan:
Summer Squash Soup with Basil
And this may be obvious, but two other dishes that can use a lot of produce include
a) homemade veggie-heavy chili (vegetarian or with meat) with peppers, corn, tomato, fresh cilantro and oregano, onions/green onions/chives. Super easy in the crockpot and doesn't heat up your kitchen too much when it's hot out.
b) omelets! Use up your herbs, kale, zucchini, etc.
And here's one more versatile recipe for using up lots of veggies that also tastes awesome and is easy to make:
Peanut-Ginger Noodles - just swap in fresh veggies for the suggested frozen ones. Veggies that work well in this include carrots, green beans, spinach, cabbages of all types (Asian and regular), onion, peppers, squash.
