Potato-Leek-Gruyere Gratin. More cheese.
Delicious and beautiful. 50 cents per serving. If a gratin sounds like something you shouldn't try at home by yourself, the sound's deceiving. Click. Seeing and tasting is believing.
Celery Root Soup
These powerfully flavorful and aromatic celery root knobs are still turning up at Farmers Markets everywhere. Seasonally abundant and cheap. Smooth and light in this addictive soup that's wonderful hot or chilled. Make a big batch.
Deacon’s Sweet Potato Crisps
Shockingly delicious. Crisp and crunchy. Just one ingredient. Sweet potatoes. No oil. A small handful of calories per handful. No salt unless you want to add it. Less than ten minutes of your time to make a batch.
Apple-Pear Ceviche. Tuna optional.
The Fall fruit harvest quickly transformed to a sweet and spicy salad. An intensely flavorful Way to lighten up a rich meal. Or to build a light, refreshing one. Less than $1 per huge serving.
Spiced Cauliflower Soup. Find a big pot.
50 cents for a very big bowlful of very big flavor and your daily Vitamin C requirement. Sweet, pure cauliflower laced with warm, exotic spices. Body-satisfying but light. A perfect dish to add to your cool weather diet. Find your biggest pot and make a week's worth.
Celeri Remoulade. Or Celery Root Salad.
A classic combination of the crisp, crunchy and aromatic with the slick and luscious. Great with your boeuf bourguignon. And amazing with hot dogs. Takes the place of cole slaw and sauerkraut. Make it in 10 minutes.
Aromatic Roasted Red Cabbage
50 cents per aromatic, sweet, sour and slightly rich side serving. 200% of your daily Vitamin C, 50% of your Vitamin A and 100% of your Vitamin K per serving. Wow! And great color, too.
Top this: Apples on Tarte Flambé
Thin slices of apple on top of sweet, creamy onions and crisp, super smoky bacon. On a very, very thin and crisp no-tossing, no-spinning, no-rolling pizza crust you easily make from scratch. You're forgiven in advance if you eat too much.
Drinking & Walking: Red Wine Substitute
Like a good wine, it's refreshing. It's not sweet. You get "fruit" from apple. Sweet earthiness from beet. And herbal "notes" from sage, rosemary and mint. Really nice to sip with food. Per glass, 100 calories less than wine. And it may lower your blood pressure.
Root Rösti CSA. All in.
Rösti is a traditional Swiss dish, a potato pancake only better. When you swap the potato for earthy beets and sweet carrots, it's even Better. Sweeter. Richer in flavor and Vitamins A and C. Delicious, cheap, easy.