Shopping Spree!

Week of October 24

The shelves at Alfalfa's are still stocked with local veggies!  This week's meals will be centered around Colorado's finest fall squash, leafy greens, and sweet fall fruits.

Some ideas are formulating already: Pomegranate-glazed chicken with green olive and walnut pilaf, Stuffed delicata squash with wild rice and kale salad, Blue corn tacos with spicy ground beef, arugula and lebni.  Yum.    

My Basket is full of...
(-> and here's what I made with each item)
Local, Organic Produce:
-Russet Potatoes -> Potato Leek Gratin (made with cashew milk)
-Yellow Onions
-Easter Egg Radish
-Bartlett Pears -> Pear Ginger Compote
-Jonathan Apples
-Leeks ->Potato Leek Gratin
-Green Curly Kale -> Emerald Kale Salad with Persimmons and Pomegranate

 Healthy Proteins:
-Pasture-fed ground beef -> Spicy Blue Corn Tacos with Arugula and Lebni
-Free-range bone-in chicken breast -> Pomegranate Glazed Chicken
-Pastured eggs from my friend's farm

New, exciting, and just plain fun:
-Organic Coconut Butter
-Fuyu Persimmons ->Emerald Kale Salad
-Pomegranate -> Emerald Kale Salad
-Local, organic Irish oat bread
-Local, organic blue-corn tortillas ->Spicy Tacos
-Raw green olives -> Millet Pilaf with Green Olives, Walnuts and Pomegranate
-Wild capers
-Organic Lebni (Kefir cheese)

Pantry Staples:
-Organic raw walnut halves -> Millet Pilaf
-Organic raw cashews -> Maple Cashew Creme (served with warm gingerbread)
-Organic raw almonds -> Almond Milk
-Organic raw sesame seeds
-Organic great northern beans
-Organic garbanzo beans