from mediocre to pretty darned good

On Wednesday, I was starting to burn out. I had piles of greens. I made something that was ok, but probably not a repeat (or if repeated, it would need a variation on the theme). It involved split yellow peas, greens, and sundried tomatoes with New Mexican chili powder, served over rice. It was fine, not spectacular. I think I overcooked it, though not so much that anything lost its color.

On Thursday, it seemed like time for something completely different. We had a side salad and a weird, made-up quiche created out of materials-at-hand. For the crust, I made breadcrumbs in the food processor, then added walnuts and whole wheat flour, some olive oil, a tiny amount of butter, and some water. Too much water! So after pressing the mess into a pie pan, I cooked it at very low temps while the oven was warming up.

I sauteed onions, scallions (this week, the scallions were a couple of feet long, funny things, but tasty), and the remainder of the cookable greens -- spinach and mixed baby greens. Once cooked, I put them in a collander and pressed some of the juice out. Then, I added them to a mix of eggs, nonfat cream cheese, shredded cheddar, and nonfat yogurt.

I was pretty sure the whole thing would be an inedible gooey mess. But it turns out that the crust remade itself into the best-ever breadcrumby, tasty, crunchy, toasty container. And the filling was creamy and tasty. Yum. I might even try that one again.

We had a side salad, mostly because we had a surfeit of lettuce last week and more is coming this week, I'm sure.

Last night, we got a whole grain pizza crust to which we added sauteed onions, scallions, and walnuts, topped with blue cheese. Very simple, and quite delicious. At the store, we got some supplementary veggies and had a full-fledged salad -- lettuce, mozarella, red pepper, cucumber, mushrooms.

Tonight, we'll have an easy dinner of more salad, leftover quiche, and grocery broccoli, which I think will clean us out of farm veggies and make room for tomorrow's next farm pickup. Phew.