If you’re CSA member (stands for Community Supported Agriculture), then you know about surprises.\u00a0 Open your weekly delivery and there could be anything inside.\u00a0 Last week I got a surprise that probably no one can beat:\u00a0 A jar of pickled turnips!<\/p>\n
As a Certified Vegetable Guide (!), I’m pretty good at devising uses for odd vegetables, but I just had to stash my jar and wait for inspiration.\u00a0 It came Friday night as I was making a kale salad.\u00a0 Usually I “marinate” the raw kale with olive oil and lemon juice.\u00a0 Could the pickled beets plus a little of the pickling brine substitute for the lemon?<\/p>\n
You bet!\u00a0 It worked perfectlly.\u00a0 Just needed a little sweetness to counterbalance the heartiness of the kale and vinegary-ness of the brine.\u00a0 A few raisins (chopped to distribute them more evenly) did the trick.\u00a0 Walnuts added a little more protein to my vegetarian meal.<\/p>\n
The only problem:\u00a0 What if you don’t have any pickled turnips?\u00a0 I’m going to work on a recipe to share.\u00a0 It’s a great use for turnips, which are plentiful and cheap, especially when they can then turn a simple kale salad into something quite unique:<\/p>\n
So here’s the salad recipe:<\/p>\n
1 large bunch of kale, stems removed and leaves torn into roughly 2″ squares<\/p>\n
1\/4 to 1\/3 cup raisins, chopped roughly<\/p>\n
1\/2 cup walnut pieces, toasted lightly<\/p>\n
1\/2 cup pickled turnips, cut into 1\/2″ cubes<\/p>\n
Toss together in a salad bowl.<\/p>\n
1 clove garlic, finely minced<\/p>\n
2 Tbsp. olive oil<\/p>\n
1\/4 to 1\/3 cup pickling brine.<\/p>\n
Combine in a small bowl and whisk together with a fork.\u00a0 Drizzle over salad and toss to coat evenly.\u00a0 Allow to sit and “marinate” for 30 to 60 minutes, if possible.<\/p>\n
Find out more from the Certified Vegetable Guide:\u00a0 visit the Vegetable a Month Club<\/a> and check out the demo site for spinach<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you’re CSA member (stands for Community Supported Agriculture), then you know about surprises.\u00a0 Open your weekly delivery and there could be anything inside.\u00a0 Last week I got a surprise that probably no one can beat:\u00a0 A jar of pickled turnips! As a Certified Vegetable Guide (!), I’m pretty good at devising uses for odd … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}