"Why would anyone think to eat this?!?!"

Ryan thought I was trying to poison him last night when I gave him a raw red dandelion green to try (picture of his face after eating below!). The greens showed up in our food bin and I almost put them in a salad. Luckily, I tasted one first and realized how bitter they were (quite the kick!). I did some research and realized that if you saute them in bacon fat it takes out a lot of the bitterness.


We also cooked the vegetable that we had no idea what it was. We cut it open and sure enough, no seeds, and yellow rings. It was a GIANT beet (Allison, I think the picture looked deceiving but I appreciate the research you did....now I want to try one of those crazy squash!).


Aside from the two veggies I made homemade foccacia bread topped with roasted garlic. Ryan loved it evidenced by the fact that we have NONE left.


The next night we had a meal of ALL veggies. This was pretty new to us because we usually always have some type of meat or bread-like substance (rice, noodles, etc). The meal included grilled corn on the cob, portabello mushrooms (which were cheaper than regular mushrooms! Not sure what was up with that but we took advantage!), sweet potatoes, and kale with caramelized onion.