Showing posts with label csa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label csa. Show all posts

Monday, October 26, 2009

The resident chicken hater

My husband, for some reason, doesn't like chicken. I think it might have something to do with getting food poisoning from a chicken dish (not made by me, of course). Getting him to be ok with making chicken dishes has taken some time over the past six years but recently, I made one that he exclaimed "THIS IS THE BEST CHICKEN DISH EVER." I whole heartedly give Martha Stewart props for this tasty chicken dish which is super easy to make. It also includes items from my CSA as well.

Ingredients

Serves 4

1/4 cup all-purpose flour

Coarse salt and ground pepper

4 fresh whole sage leaves, plus 4 minced leaves

4 (6 to 8 ounces each) chicken cutlets

4 slices (3 ounces) thinly sliced prosciutto

4 teaspoons olive oil

3/4 cup dry white wine

1/3 cup reduced-sodium canned chicken broth

1 tablespoon cold butter

Directions

In a shallow bowl, stir together flour, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and 1/4 teaspoon pepper. Set aside.

Lay 1 sage leaf lengthwise on each cutlet, then wrap a prosciutto slice around middle of each cutlet, encasing sage. Flatten with the palm of your hand to help prosciutto adhere to the chicken. Dredge cutlets in seasoned flour; tap off excess.

In a large nonstick skillet, heat 2 teaspoons oil over medium-high heat. Cook 2 cutlets until golden brown and cooked through, 3 to 4 minutes per side. Remove cutlets, and keep warm. Repeat with remaining 2 teaspoons oil and 2 cutlets.

Add wine and broth to skillet; cook over high heat until reduced by three-quarters, about 2 minutes. Remove from heat; let cool 1 minute. Add butter and minced sage; stir until butter is melted, about 30 seconds. Spoon sauce onto plates; top with cutlets. Serve immediately.

Chicken with Prosciutto and Sage

Ingredients Serves 4

1/4 cup all-purpose flour

Coarse salt and ground pepper

4 fresh whole sage leaves, plus 4 minced leaves

4 (6 to 8 ounces each) chicken cutlets

4 slices (3 ounces) thinly sliced prosciutto

4 teaspoons olive oil

3/4 cup dry white wine

1/3 cup reduced-sodium canned chicken broth

1 tablespoon cold butter

Directions

In a shallow bowl, stir together flour, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and 1/4 teaspoon pepper. Set aside.

Lay 1 sage leaf lengthwise on each cutlet, then wrap a prosciutto slice around middle of each cutlet, encasing sage. Flatten with the palm of your hand to help prosciutto adhere to the chicken. Dredge cutlets in seasoned flour; tap off excess.

In a large nonstick skillet, heat 2 teaspoons oil over medium-high heat. Cook 2 cutlets until golden brown and cooked through, 3 to 4 minutes per side. Remove cutlets, and keep warm. Repeat with remaining 2 teaspoons oil and 2 cutlets.

Add wine and broth to skillet; cook over high heat until reduced by three-quarters, about 2 minutes. Remove from heat; let cool 1 minute. Add butter and minced sage; stir until butter is melted, about 30 seconds. Spoon sauce onto plates; top with cutlets. Serve immediately.

Monday, June 22, 2009

CSA Week 3 meal plan

Another exciting CSA week! We ate the cherries right up! Here are the items we'll have for dinner this week with our basket of goodies!

Steak, baked chili potatoes (csa), grilled summer squash (csa) and greek salad (various csa goodies)

Lentils and swiss chard risotto

Chicken with fennel (fennel, carrots from CSA)

We have spinach and romaine to go along with each meal along with fresh basil, we'll make caprese salads too!

Unfortunately, our parsley died right away so we'll be making lemon orzo pasta this week instead of last. So far, that is the only thing we've wasted.

Next week brings the following veggies:

Bunched Spinach
Baby Romaine
Cucumber
Broccoli
Walla Walla onion
green beans
Cilantro
Red gold new potatoes
Fennel
Cherry Tomatoes

I see homemade salsa in our future...

Sunday, June 14, 2009

CSA Week 2 meal plan


CSA Week 2
Originally uploaded by fiveforefun
photo courtesy of Jen Floyd, who gets the same CSA as we do!

Here are the meals I came up with from stuff in my CSA:

Marinated Chops (in vidalia onion dressing) with corn and zucchini
salad
Pasta with Kale and mixed greens

Grilled Chicken with Sesame broccoli

Lemon parsley orzo with caprese salad

I still have potatoes to make but maybe I will grill them with the
chicken. This will be my first time trying kale. I'm so excited!

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

This week's CSA

My family is sharing a CSA (community supported agriculture) with Kate and Jeff. This is something I have always wanted to do and what the hell, it costs $11 a week, it supports the community and it's organic. It's like Whole Foods, without walking out with all the extras like Pirate Booty and $5 loaves of French Bread. Each Wednesday, I come home to this bunch of organic goodness but then I'm left with, what to make??? Well, that what I'm gonna post each week.

Friday night is meal planning night in our family. I'm totally addicted to Everyday Food Magazine and I have a ton of cookbooks. This should be pretty fun for my readers, esp. since a lot of them already get this same CSA.

Anyways, here are the veggies from this week:
Salad Mix
Carrots
Green Zucchini
Italian Parsley
English Shelling Peas
Yukon Gold potatoes
Broccoli
Italian Kale

Happy cooking!