Fresh Fork Meals
Fresh Fork meals!
Meal One: cabbage, onions (City Fresh), beef, mothe bean sprouts, turnips (Fresh Fork), Heritage Fair seasoning (Zagara's), Maple Syrup (Heinen's)
I fried the turnips in butter and when they were brown added some more butter and maple syrup to create a sauce. Believe it or not, this may have been the most delicious thing I made all summer. Try it.
The mixed greens and flowers part of the salad came as you see it, but I added some onions and some of the mothe beans, mostly because I was at a loss at what in the world you are supposed to do with them besides put them in a salad. Well, I think the Fresh Fork site said you could eat them as a snack too, but that's not very presentational.
The cabbage rolls are made by boiling cabbage and putting fried beef in them. They were closed with a toothpick. A word of caution: if the cabbage is boiled for too long, it becomes too soft to hold anything in it. But if it's not boiled long enough, the flavor is too strong and the whole thing is just too crunchy and tastes bad. So, getting it right is a delicate procedure.
Here's a nice close-up of the salad because it's so pretty. By the way that flower tasted like mustard, I was very surprised.
Also be careful to soak the flowers in water because worms and things love to live in them, particularly if they are farmed organically. This may seem gross. But first of all, you don't come across insects in your salad very often, and when you do, they are easy to get out of there. Just soak it. Second of all, think of it this way: the fact that little wormies can eat this salad means there is nothing harmful on it. If they're not being harmed by what they're eating, that means you won't be either.
Anyway...
Meal Two: cabbage, onions (City Fresh), beef, lentil bean sprouts, mothe bean sprouts, turnips (Fresh Fork), Maple Syrup (Heinen's), soup base (Marc's), Hungarian noodles (Heinan's), garlic (Zagara's)
The stir fry was cabbage, beef, maple syrup and turnips. The cabbage probably didn't belong in there but otherwise it was delicious. The maple syrup works good with beef as well.
The salad consists of mixed greens, onion and mothe bean sprouts. As you can see, I tried to just put them all in the salad and get it over with.
The soup is powdered beef stock, Hungarian garlic flavored noodles, and lentil bean sprouts. I hoped in vain that lentil bean sprouts could be cooked like lentil beans, but I was somewhat mistaken. It tasted alright, but a little crunchy.
Meal Three: onions, cabbage (City Fresh), mixed greens, turnip leaves (Fresh Fork), Heritage Fair seasoning (Zagara's), Inn Maid Noodles (Zagara's), Midi's pasta sauce (Giant Eagle)
The beef I mixed with onions and pressed into meatballs. This is a staple of Russian cuisine ( called Kotlety in Russian, I believe they make them in other places too. Denmark, the Middle East, Germany, etc), very easy to make.
I tried to boil turnip leaves. As may already be apparent, I am not proficient with boiling greens. They were limp and tasted awful.
And, the rest of the tast salad, nom nom, with onions.
The next entry will talk about Shaker Square Farmer's Market.
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