Fennel and Kohlrabi SaladKohlrabi is a brassica, which is just a fancy way of saying that it is in the same plant family as broccoli, cabbage, and cauliflower. A prime kohlrabi is sweet and crisp, almost like an apple, and can be peeled and eaten raw. You can eat kohlrabi greens, but they tend toward the bitter end of the spectrum, and with the abundance of delicious green leafy things (like this week’s Spring Mix from Four Tern Farm!) to eat in Alaska in July, we usually just add our kohlrabi leaves
Roasted Fennel and Cauliflower w/ ChickpeasIf you’ve never tried fennel, you’re in for a treat. When eaten raw, this member of the parsley family has a light anise flavor. The entire fennel plant is edible, and when the white part of the plant (the bulb) is roasted, fennel has an intensely sweet flavor. You can add raw fennel to salads to add depth of flavor by either thinly slicing the bulb for added crunch and flavor or by tossing in chopped up fennel greens. If you’re looking for a way to use both the cauliflower i
Grilled Garlic ScapesLast week, we lovingly tucked the green tendrils of garlic scapes into your CSA boxes, and this week we are happy to say that we get to do it again. If you’re a biweekly member and didn’t get to experience them from last week’s box, let us begin by saying that garlic scapes are the green part of the roughneck garlic varieties that grow well in Alaska. The above ground scape part of the garlic plant is usually snipped off to encourage the plant to direct its growth into fatten
Sesame Roasted Turnip Salad w/ QuinoaI’ll admit, my favorite way to eat Snow Apple Turnips is raw and undressed, like an apple. They are that sweet, that juicy, and that earthy and delicious. If, however, it’s a full meal you’re aiming for, this Sesame Roasted Turnip Salad w/Quinoa is up to the task. This recipe calls for Hakurei turnips, which are much larger than what you’ve got in your boxes this week, but I’m sure the only reason this blogger recommends those is that she hasn’t tried the flavor-packed punch