For this month’s what’s on your plate? I thought I would go through a few of the things I have made with items from the Wonky Box and divide the post into breakfast, lunch and dinner just for a change.
Breakfasts
As regular readers know, we have been getting lots of avocados delivered. I confess to being a lover of avocado toast, especially topped with poached eggs (main picture below), sprinkled with microgreens and a lovely pepper based seasoning I have to hand. I used up the rainbow chard in a ‘greens and egg’ dish on Saturday, which I ate feeling virtuous due to all the greens (who wouldn’t?). To fortify me for the Food Show on Sunday, I topped my avocado toast with halloumi, another feast.
Lunch and a very good soup
Faced with fennel and kale, I turned for inspiration to The Love and Lemons Cookbook by Jeanine Donofrio of Love and Lemons, and sure enough, found a kale, fennel and vegetable soup, full of cannellini beans. This was excellent, and was my lunch on Wednesday and dinner on Friday. Verdict – excellent.
Dinner or what I did with this week’s bok choy
I looked in the fridge this morning to plan tonight’s dinner and started off by marinating the block of tofu I found. As I doubt I could ever get Karl to eat this, it was bought with the view of eating it while he is away, and as he is back on Sunday, I thought it better get used! I used some white miso, rice vinegar, a little of the honey with ginger I have in my pantry, pepper and olive oil. I roasted that pesky bok choy, with some garlic, olive oil a sprinkling of chilli flakes and soy sauce, then topped the plate with the first of this season’s asparagus (still a bit pricey, but so hard to resist).
Verdict? Noodles as the base was a good option, the bok choy was very good but I wasn’t too keen on the tofu – I think I used too much miso (or it s very strong miso!). Verdict? Good way to use bok choy.
This well be entered in the What’s on Your Plate blog challenge hosted by bloggers Widow Badass and Retirement Reflections which happens on the first Wednesday of the month (I am almost a day ahead of them….at this time of year, 19 hours to be precise).
Thistles and Kiwis is a Wellington, New Zealand based blog written by Barbara, who likes cats, summer, good food and pretends to garden.
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