Harder than I thought

For those (very few) of you that are following along, let me just apologize for my lack of timely postings. I am finding it way harder than I expected to actually come up with something to do with all of the vegetables before they are past their prime, primarily b/c my creative time and my cooking time are SEVERELY curtailed by the toddler. In some ways having the veggies around makes my life easier... for example, she'll help trim the green beans while I am cooking. But this has made me realize how much of a struggle it is just to get dinner on the table some nights. However, having the vegetables silently making me feel guilty(and frankly, MOCKING me) from the crisper HAS made us skip the take-out route on more than one occasion, like tonight for example.

Tuesdays, I try and use up whatever is left over from the week before, as we get our new box of yummy on Wednesdays. I DID not feel like cooking today, but on top of the C.S.A. vegetables, I had a bunch of stuff from my parent's garden that needed eatin'.

SO... here's what we had.

Zucchini soup: I sauteed diced zucchini with onions and garlic until soft, added broth and then pureed it. Then I stirred in a buttload of chopped fresh herbs, some red pepper flakes and topped with grated Parmesan cheese. Verdict: NOT bad, although when my mom makes it, it gets all velvety. Mine was NOT velvety in the least. Tasted ok though.

Green beans and corn on the cob: The picture above is from a week or two ago, it is NOT a picture of our most recent bounty. So it does not picture the two most successful veggies (at least in the eyes of the toddler) we have recieved yet. Apparently Sydney LOVES corn on the cob. She ate a WHOLE ear herself and was asking for more. She also helped trim the greenbeans and break them in half for cooking.