Tonight’s dinner made really good use of several veggies in our share today. Escarole, spinach and swiss chard if I wanted to throw that in (I decided to save it for another night), plus I used the garlic scapes in place of garlic. And we had a tossed salad of lettuce, tomato, cucumber and I pan-fried tofu to add a little obvious protein to our meal (I am told grains have protein so not to worry about adding it too much but I can’t help but feel the protein should be obvious — a holdover from traditional meat-centered eating I guess!)

The recipe is from Alice Waters’ Vegetarian book. It is linguine with a sauce made from red wine, escarole, spinach, onions and garlic. The onions caramelize and chopped capers are thrown in at the end to add some zing. I was not convinced this would be a great dish but I was willing to try it once. Now I plan to keep it on my list of go-to pasta dishes. My only problem was that the recipe I found on the internet was on a UK site so it was all in metric. I have no idea what the actual measurements are as I literally just guessed at everything but it turned out great except for being a bit on the dry side. Next time I will ladle some of the pasta cooking water into the dish before serving.

http://www.riverford.co.uk/recipes/recipe.php?recipeid=498&catid=4

Oh! and I want to try this recipe for Mizuna salad with crispy fried chickpeas and tahini vinaigrette.

http://recipes.rimag.com/recipe.asp?id=88

I am not sure we’ll be getting mizuna again though. Last year, I felt overwhelmed with large bunches of mizuna and this year the one bunch I got so far was on the small side. What an interesting growing season this must be. All the rain! I bought a pound of gorgeous red strawberries at the Union Square market last weekend and they were disappointingly tasteless. For Father’s Day pancakes with strawberry compote, however, I doctored them with some lemon juice and a teaspoon of raw sugar. It did work and Luke loved the pancakes and strawberries but given how much I paid for the strawberries, they were disappointing!