Q: There’s an enormous sack of weird-looking bulbs in my fridge. What should I do?! A: Breathe. Get a peeler and start peeling them. Soon you’ll have pickles (or something else delicious) and everything will be OK.
Having a share in a CSA is wonderful. In theory.
CSA = community-supported agriculture. If you're not familiar, it's a system where a group of customers prepays a seasonal subscription fee directly to a farmer (or multiple farmers) and, in exchange, they each receive a lovely array of fresh fruits/vegetables on a regular basis throughout the growing season.
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There's just one problem.
As a CSA subscriber, sooner or later you're bound to end up with strange, inexplicable vegetables you have no idea what to do with in your share. And you panic, and you freeze up, and they sit in your fridge, and then they rot, and you waste your money, and then everyone's sad.
So! Herein are some doable, delicious ideas for how to cook and eat a few of the most often problematic or over-abundant CSA suspects: kohlrabi, garlic scapes, turnips, chard, beets, and sugar snap peas. Because they deserve to be eaten, and you deserve to eat them. Carry on.
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So what should I do if I got 17 tons of KOHLRABI?
TELL ME WHAT IT IS! A vegetable in the brassica genus (cousins include cabbage, broccoli, kale, etc) that grows as a big, tough bulb just above ground level and has leaves sticking out of it like weird little alien arms.
TELL ME WHAT IT TASTES LIKE! Kohlrabi isn't actually a root, but it acts a lot like one. The crunchy, starchy texture is similar to jicama or turnips, but it has a mild, slightly sweet cabbagey flavor. You can eat it raw or cooked. The leaves are fair game too; you can approach them the way you would a tough bunch of kale or collards.
TELL ME WHAT TO DO WITH IT! First of all, make sure you PEEL the HECK out of kohlrabi. It has a thick outer green layer that you want to completely slice away so you get to the non-fibrous white interior. After than, you can...
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