Tatsoi and other delicious veggies
Look what the CSA bunny brought this week! Too bad I wasn’t here, otherwise I might have caught his fluffy little butt and cooked him right up.
This week we have more salad mix, saute mix, spinach, ramps, and radishes. New this week is a small head of romaine lettuce, tatsoi, dandelion greens, and watercress.
Tasoi is an Asian member of the brassica rapa family. One common name for tatsoi is spoon mustard…aptly so because of the distinctive spoon shape of the leaves. It can be eaten raw or cooked. I imagine mine will be served salad style, probably mixed into a salad with the spinach.
Dandelion greens are delicious. These are really long and generously leafed. Dandelions are rich in vitamin A, calcium, and vitamin C. These will get a quick spin around a hot pan with a little pork jowl and served up next to some potatoes.
Watercress is one of the oldest known leaf vegetables consumed by humans. It too is very healthful…full of vitamins A and C, folic acid, iron, and calcium. Every year I look forward to our watercress bunch. It will be added to the yearly egg salad sandwich. It is the only reason to eat an egg salad sandwich…well maybe not? Anyway…that’s my position and I’m sticking to it.
Romaine Lettuce is the lettuce for a real caesar salad. This is a small head so I’ll use a small egg (yes raw!!! oh horrors!!!), lemon juice, garlic, homemade croutons, parmesan cheese, and a good olive oil and hopefully some fine anchovies. Anchovies are so salty and provide just the right unctuousness. I can’t wait for the ultimate bad-breath salad.
Have fun readers…it’s almost Friday!!! We get to watch Lost tonight (tivBob‘d from last night) and I can’t wait.
3 Responses to “Tatsoi and other delicious veggies”
1 jef 26 April 2007 @ 10:44 pm
What are your plans for the radishes? We get them non-stop and I’m running out of ideas here.
I made a pretty good pasta dish with some of my CSA items, the post will be up soon!
2 vanessa 29 April 2007 @ 11:58 am
Jef, so far I’ve never reached my limit on eating them naked right out of the CSA box. If I did it would be baquette, butter and salt next.
3 jef 2 May 2007 @ 3:05 am
I can usually only eat one or two of them before I could care less. I once sat down and ate the whole bunch just so I wouldn’t waste them, maybe that’s it.
I think 4 months of radishes is more than enough, can I get something else already?
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