Recipes I Made Because My Farm Box is Back!!

I was so excited to see the stack of boxes on my porch when I arrived home this Monday afternoon. Farmer John veggies are back, hooray!!

If you’re not familiar with the “my farmer” concept, CSA’s (Community Supported Agriculture) are like buying a part of a farm. You pay up front for a season of vegetables and their food is available to you weekly. To find one in your area, visit http://www.localharvest.org/csa/

I’ve had my farmer, Farmer John of J&S Farm, for about 11 or 12 years now. Technically, I order a 1/2 box and also get a dozen eggs. The boxes come once a week delivered to me. It’s so great!

Here are the contents of my box for this week. FYI – the little hand is holding dill 🙂 

Needless to say …. Mondays are delicious at our house! Some of the veggies we eat right away. This week my 5 year old and I ate all the sugar snap peas. As I pulled out the strawberries and the mint, I thought…. yum, I really want to eat these together in a lemonade.

So I made the most delicious Minty Strawberry Lemonade (which I am more appropriately terming a “smoothie-ade”). After posting the pic on my social media pages, I had a lot of interest for the recipe. And I’m such a kind and responsive person, that I created a special page just for the recipe!

Minty Strawberry Lemonade Recipe! Aka ‘Smoothie-ade’

You’ll want to try it!

Sweet Potato Muffins

After that, I wanted something creative to do with some sweet potatoes that were already cooked and in my fridge. I had 2 fresh ones from Farmer John and wanted to use up the already cooked ones before cooking these. So I decided to go for Sweet Potato Muffins and found this recipe, from Good + Simple.

YOU MUST TRY IT!

I usually make all kinds of alterations to recipes, adding this, cutting back on that. This recipe was really great as is. I made one small change, which was to mix some flax into the muffins in addition to sprinkling on top. They were as tasty as they look!!

Now you have some suggestions for your nourishing eating pleasures. I hope you enjoy!!

– Julie