Dark Days Update

This week's update is in our new space! This was a local week, to be sure. Here are the meals we enjoyed this week with links to the recipes.

Monday is our crock pot day. We had a rich, nourishing stew of red beans, cabbage and roots. It needed a little more punch, but it was very warming. All ingredients but the rice, celery seed and enchilada sauce were from our CSA, Abbondanza. Tuesday we had the leftovers and they were delicious with a dash of tabasco!

On Wednesday I roasted some veggies for a Veggie Pie and made up a HUGE amount of homemade veggie broth in the process. The house smelled wonderful all day! The pie was a little too dry for my taste, so next time I'll make it a bit more liquidy. We nibbled on the extra roasted veggies all week. All ingredients but the pie crust were from our CSA. Leftovers on Thursday were yummy!

On Friday, I fixed one of our absolute favorite soups, Lentil Buttercup. Buttercup is such a delicious squash - so sweet and yummy. I added our very sad looking old bok choi to it and it was a good addition. CSA ingredients were the broth made from the veggie pie veggies, buttercup squash, onions, garlic and bok choi. The red lentils were from the pantry and I think bought a few years ago! They seemed to be ok. Mmm...

Saturday we had a party at night, so I brought Pumpkin Black Bean Soup, a favorite! It used all CSA ingredients (pumpkin, Hopi black beans, onion, garlic, veggie broth). Tomatoes were from a can:-( Next summer I vow to preserve tomatoes!! Tonight we are going to enjoy the fridge of leftovers! This was Week 2 of the Dark Days Challenge. So far, so good!