Vegetable Soup

I am going to try to cook most of the recipe's from the book "French Women Don't Get Fat", a book Taumi gave me a while back.  I have no time limit for myself, because I don't really care if I ever get through them all.  But I did start!  I didn't include a recipe for this one, so if you are interested, just ask :)

The recipe called for 3 leeks.  Good thing I like leeks!  I actually added extra of everything in the recipe except leeks and at the end, I'm glad I did.  That would have bee really leeky.

Almost done!

And voila!

It almost looks like a squash soup, but no squash was included, I promise.

CSA

Malachi and I signed up for a Community Supported Agriculture program last year and it just started a couple of weeks ago.  We get our produce through Threshing Table Farms.  The website now has recipes up, but last week it didn't.  And we got beets.  And I have never even eaten a beet before, much less prepared and cooked one!  So I went to trusty ole Allrecipes.com and used their ingredient search for beets.  We also got red potatoes, which I definitely have prepared before, because I love them.  But I wanted to try something at least a little new with them, so I went to allrecipes for them as well.

The chopped up beets.

The potatoes.

And I don't have a picture of the finished taters.  Mostly because I was starving at this point, but also because they just looked like potato spears, nothing special.  However, they did have a little kick of lemon in them because I used this recipe.

But back to the beets.  I made Beet Soup and although it just looks like pureed beets, it did have a little extra somethin' somethin'.  And was actually tasty.  A flavor I've never experienced before, but still delicious!

And I think Malachi was very happy with the meal his wife cooked for him.  (Cause let me tell you, it doesn't happen too often!)

Anyways, we already have our second installment of the CSA food, and we have more beets this week!  So I have more planning and learning to do!

But if any of you have the opportunity to join a CSA, I highly recommend it!