Crunchy Garlic Chicken

Week Two, Friday

It seems like we got more specialty items this week at Fair Shares, and fewer things to incorporate into our meals. I made one of my standard meals tonight, and only used spinach from the CSA food. I got the recipe for the chicken from a Betty Crocker cookbook, but it's fairly close to this recipe.

I finally got around to washing the lettuce from this week's share. Last week, we got romaine lettuce and spring mixed greens. I recognized both of them and I'd had them before. This time, the lettuce pieces had long stems. I wasn't sure what to do with them, but I didn't think I'd like them in the salad. I cut all the stems off. I'm sure a couple years from now the trendy farmer's market thing will be to sell "lettuce stems" and people will pay for and eat the parts I didn't want.

stemmy lettuce

Here's the salad:


Crunchy garlic chicken with roasted sweet potatoes and sauteed spinach and onions

Later on, I made a dessert. I hadn't used the tortillas yet, and I thought about making some sort of french toast using them and the apple syrup. I ended up heating up some butter in a frying pan with brown sugar and cinnamon. I cut up two tortillas and cooked them for a little bit on each side. Roy opened the syrup jar and heated up some syrup in the microwave.


I think if I do this again, we'll keep the syrup as a dipping sauce rather than pouring it on the tortillas. It got messy, but it was good.

I ended up using spinach, lettuce, radish shoots, last week's olive oil, tortillas, and the apple syrup today.