Market Basket —chapter 1

by jhooleybartlett

Ever not sure how to use what you see at the market?  Here is a possible market basket and suggestions on how to use the contents now and in the future.  The ideas are actually endless but one rule of thumb, keep it simple. The food tastes best when you just keep it as close to what it is as possible.

Basket One:

peanut butter, fig and onion jam, fruit jam, chicken, pork chops, ground beef, brisket, eggs, pesto, granola, arugula, Kohlrabi, swiss chard, bread, cinnamon rolls, peas, broccoli, tatzoi, nappa cabbage, summer squash, beets, white turnips, kohlrabi, carrots, garlic scapes, lettuce bok choy and green peppers

Multiple meal preparation:

  • Roast chicken with lemons and thyme, remove from bone taking one half the meat, cut up and save for future meal.
  • Cook bones from chicken and freeze for stock.
  • Braise Brisket with carrots, bock choy, garlic scapes and beets.  Divide in half, freeze one half for later,  Take braising liquid and use some for meal, the rest freeze in small portions to be added to soups or stir fry.
  • Nappa cabbage: if too big for this week, shred half and blanch (1.5 min), cool then spin dry.  Freeze to use for soups.

Breakfast

  • Cinnamon roll French toast (especially if the rolls have gotten stale)
  • Poached egg over wilted tatzoi or greens
  • Omelet with broccoli, greens, summer squash
  • Granola with milk or over yogurt
  • Toast with jam and eggs of your own choosing

Snacks

  • Granola, Kohlrabi with soy sauce. Peas and hummus, Peanut butter and bread

Lunch

  • Peanut butter and jelly sandwich
  • Salad with turnips, kohlrabi,  carrots, summer squash and either chicken or brisket
  • Sandwich with either meat
  • Egg salad sandwich or add hard boiled eggs to greens
  • Pickled beets with greens and hard boiled eggs
  • Raw veggie platter

Dinner:

  • Pork chops glazed with fig/onion jam- grilled, grilled nappa cabbage and summer squash
  • Stir fry: garlic scapes, summer squash, broccoli, swiss chard, peas and carrots
  • Hamburgers with pesto, lettuce on a roll with nappa cabbage slaw (with carrots) or carrot and beet salad
  • Pesto pasta and broccoli and tatzoi or chard
  • Nappa cabbage cooked with soy sauce, pork chops pickled beets
  • Swiss chard or tatzoi stir fry with chicken or brisket
  • Grilled pizza with broccoli, ground beef (browned) pesto.
  • Frittata made with chard that is sautéed with garlic scape, also add summer squash