Southern Ontario Local Menu Plan – June 3-9
June 3-9
These days the menu features lots of green items. It’s wonderful. It also would seem that there is some debate on the internet (and maybe beyond) as to whether it’s healthier to eat leafy greens raw or cooked. Since my 3-minute internet research session was inconclusive I’ll stick to just not worrying about it, and will cook them sometimes and sometimes not. Basically I will let the recipe and my stomach decide what sounds best (which reminds me of this interview I started to read last night).  For further reading on cooking leafy greens try reading this article about Kale and its recent popularity.
Looking back at least week, one great meal was Cream of Asparagus Soup with Fresh Cheesy Garlic Bagels ! Â We ate it last night and like I just said, it was a great meal, especially the fresh bagels, which were topped with cranberry goat cheese (since we rarely buy cream cheese). Â Let me just say, once you start putting goat cheese on bagels it’s unlikely you’ll ever go back to cream cheese…
| Monday |
“100-Mile Mondayâ€
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| Tuesday |
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| Wednesday | “1-Dish Wednesday†|
| Thursday |
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| Friday | Grilled Flatbreads: |
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| Sunday | Out of town for conference in Niagara – Looking for strawberries too! |
June 3, 2013 @ 10:31 am
The bagels sound amazing! I don’t see a link anywhere…where can I find the recipe??
June 3, 2013 @ 1:18 pm
Hi Karen, thanks! I’ll post a recipe soon. In the meantime, they came from Joy of Cooking, just their bagel recipe. I googled it and several people have posted their own versions but I’m not sure if they’re the same as what’s in the cookbook. I’ll get our version up here in the next few days. They’re really fun to make and the results are worth it! If you have a few people to feed I’d double the recipe as they go pretty fast 🙂
June 4, 2013 @ 11:15 am
I just read Karen’s comment, and I was wanting the same thing.
Soup looks yummy!
We have just started Kale, use it in place of bread type sandwich wraps. Don’t like it personally cooked, hubby does.
And you are right, lots of people talking about raw or cooked vegetables.
June 6, 2013 @ 8:13 am
Hey, thanks! And about the raw/cooked debate I’m curious to see if that sticks around or is a fad. Either way, I’ll just keep eating….
June 8, 2013 @ 12:39 pm
We use an old 2002 Food & Wine Soups & Salads cookbook for our asparagus soup–no butter or cream. Uses olive oil AND uses long-grain rice as the thickener! The soup is great with or without the mushrooms and the gruyere croutes.
http://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/creamy-asparagus-soup-with-mushrooms-and-gruyere-croutes
Mom
June 8, 2013 @ 12:40 pm
oh, I forgot–also the soup freezes well since it doesn’t have the cream/milk.
Mom
June 8, 2013 @ 3:19 pm
Thanks, Mom, we’ll try that one next time!
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