I actually waste a fair amount of the stuff I get from the CSA. I need to start taking it into work. It's still worth it because the stuff I do use is great, and a lot of it not stuff I've cooked with before. It's funny - it used to be that I didn't really eat a lot of vegetables. Now, I can mostly make my way through those - though I have no idea what to do with all these fricking beets - but the fruit? Turns out I'm not really a fruit eater. I've got three weeks worth piling up on the counter in varying states of decay.
(My dinner was awesome, by the way. I eat collards all the time but the celery root was a new CSA thing. It was all very Top Chef, with the fish on a bed of celery root puree and all topped with masses of crispy roasted collards. I confess I was shocked there were no celery root recipes in the Top Chef Quickfire cookbook, but I worked it out on my own.)
I'm trying to figure out low fiber, non gassy making, tasty and vaguely nutritious meals to make him. Any suggestions welcome! It's going to be trial and error for a while.
Um, chicken and rice is what the vet always had me make when the dog had stomach issues. There's got to be some sort of online source for easily digestible food ideas.
I don't know if cauliflower is low fiber, but cauliflower leek soup is a puree, tasty, and you can up the caloric with butter and other goodies. Basically, 2 leeks chopped fine sauteed in butter and garlic-don't know if garlic is an issue- pepper, salt and nutmeg. Then dump in broken up cauli, cover with chicken or veggie broth, cook till soft, then blenderize it all until creamy. You can add cream and parma, but really don't need to.
But if cauli is high fiber, well...it's good for later?
I have lots of info on what to avoid but not so much on meal plan or yummy recipe ideas. I have a nutritionist at Moveable Feast on the case for me. Yesterday I made peanut noodles with ground turkey and edamame. That seemed to work well. Tonight I made a sort of savory ric porridge with chicken and zuchhini. that seems to be a little gassy making maybe from the onion I put in? Gassy is ok as long as it's not painful for him.
Soup sounds yum Sophia!
Yeah, I'd stay away from onion.
The good thing for me is that the CSA would come in the summer, when I have a lot of time on my hands and can cook. OTOH, I don't have air conditioning, so cooking is very hot. OAnotherHand, I am pretty sure my friend M, with a family of four, who is in grad school with an unemployed husband could use my extra and it would seem like a favor to me, insteadof me giving her food. OYetANotherH, I have loved gardening in the past, and those bags seem to give me a way of doing it without digging up a rental property. But I could get sick of it, and let things rot.
He doesn't like cauliflower! Freak.
Brenda, we joke A Lot about just boiling chicken breasts and mixing it with minute rice for him. Like we do with Frank when he has digestive issues.
Roast them beets!!!
How does one flavor things without onion?!
I would think you could just omit the onion from the soup, although it is just in there for the broth making part. I actually added some old lettuce to the part where I was boiling the chicken, and it added some good flavor, so maybe just the celery, lettuce and the chicken?
