Week 12: pickup, corn chowder, bbq

Week 12's vegetables are as follows:
-eggplant
-cousa squash
-green peppers
-bok choy
-turnips
-carrots
-green beans
-tomatoes

On Friday night I made a corn chowder with last week's tomatoes and poblanos. I mostly used this recipe, but with the following modifications: no bacon (normally I would use bacon, but we had a guest who was vegetarian, so I used butter instead of bacon grease), 4 poblanos instead of 1 (and omitted jalapeno), no celery, no sugar, half & half instead of cream, and frozen corn instead of fresh. I really liked how this turned out, and will definitely be making it again. It was surprisingly refreshing for chowder, and the only real prep needed was the chopping.

On Sunday some friends had a barbecue and I brought the eggplant and cousa to grill. I also brought the green peppers and carrots to work today for lunch.

Tonight I am going to pot luck, and am planning to make a sort of stir-fry with the bok choy, green beans, turnips, turnip greens, and possibly the radishes and radish greens. I've been making a lot of greens in a sauce of different variations of soy sauce, ginger, garlic, sesame oil, and sriracha. We'll see....