Tasty tofu and potatoes with whatever veggies you can get your hands on, including asparagus for spring if you want to. Meatballs for the tofu lover, or to make you a tofu lover.
All in Recipes
Strawberry Tarragon Chicken Salad
Adapted from Taste of Home
Strawberries, the sweet royalty of spring. Asparagus, the crown. Make way for a chicken salad that can satisfy your sweet side and cure your spring fever.
Asparagus and Veggie Stir Fry (Vegan)
Spring veggies all jump into the skillet for some stir fry fun. A sweet chili sauce makes the flavor shine, with tofu and rice added in for a complete meal.
Creamy Carrot and Onion Potato Salad
from Cuisine at Home
Gear up for graduation parties this spring! Take your carrots, potatoes and onions and turn them into a crowd-pleasing salad just like your grandma used to make! Plus, bacon makes everything better.
Cheesy Hakurei Turnip Gratin with Herbs
from Sow the Table
Don't ignore the hakurei in your veggie drawer! Try this mild, but still flavorful turnip in a savory casserole and surprise your friends and family. Get your gratin on, and don't forget the real butter and heavy cream!
Easy Kale Salad with Fresh Lemon Dressing
Spring is a time for a kale reset! Get that kale into your salad and feel the spring in your step. You can't go wrong with the kale in your box this week!
Fall-Apart Beef Vegetable Soup
Perfectly falling apart beef. Perfectly seasoned broth. Perfectly comforting veggies. The best soup for rainy weather!
Warm Lentil Salad with Roasted Beets
This recipe with cool lettuce and warm beets will keep you company as the spring air still nips at your nose. The satisfaction of sweet beets, the bite of sherry vinaigrette, the comfort of dependable lentils—this salad will be worth the wait.
Buttered Radishes with a Poached Egg
Celebrate the start of spring with French Breakfast Radishes for breakfast! We promise, the butter will help you love radishes more. And the egg over easy is a simple sauce to keep your toast from being dry. This breakfast will be anything but boring!
Asian Greens and Veggies Stir Fry
Your organic veggies and Asian greens will work together happily in a stir fry that will 1) keep you from calling for take out and 2) make your veggie drawer clear out quick! Add some chicken if you’d like and rice or rice noodles on the side. Feel the satisfaction of eating 10 different veggies at once!
Balsamic Cherry Rack of Lamb
If you’ve ever been intimidated by a rack of lamb, try this mouthwateringly simple (but still impressively elegant) recipe with just 3 main ingredients! Impress your friends by learning what “demi-glace” means, and how to make it. We’ve got you covered for lamb at YB! Check out rack of lamb and other choices here.
Parsnip-Ginger Layer Cake
This takes spice cake to a whole new level. It's amped up with parsnips and fresh ginger and balanced with the most perfect sweet-and-nutty, browned butter frosting. Serve it as a layered birthday cake with frosting in the middle and on top, or bake it into cupcakes. Top with browned buttercream frosting, recipe here.
Roasted Parsnips and Vegetables
Parsnips star in this roasted veggie recipe, topped by a crispy sage oil. Those parsnips pack a nutrient punch!
Shallot and Cilantro Chili Crisp Meatballs
Bring meatballs to the next level by adding shallots, fresh garlic, fermented soy sauce and chili crisp, and local cilantro! Who knew they could be so fancy?? Or how easy it is to “get gourmet” on a weeknight?
Grilled Purple Potato Salad with Cilantro Pesto
Purple suns are high in vit C and carotenoids, and NYT describes them as having a "full earthy flavor that hints of hazelnuts." Rich purple on the outside and golden on the inside, these beauties will make a potato salad that will wow ‘em!
Indian Spiced Lentils with Spinach
My house is going through a kitchen remodel and we’ve been sans a functional kitchen for awhile. My current kitchen consists of a hotplate, Instant pot, and a what I think may now a broken toaster oven. The instant pot has become increasingly helpful since it’s also a slow cooker, can saute things, and of course, is a pressure cooker. Jack Lalanne would have been in his element on this one.
Knowing that the instant pot is not something that all Yellowbirders have, I finally found a cookbook that shares recipes that can either be made in the Instant pot OR a slow cooker. I made this dish last night and it is delicious and super healthy.
Homemade French Fries and Balsamic Ketchup
I remember going to my best friend’s house in upstate NY a decade or two ago and having her introduce me to oven fries. They were better than any fast food fries I had ever eaten! I’ve made them quite a bit over the years and last season, the winter box of Yellowbird was heavy on the potatoes so I pulled this recipe back into the mix and my hubby and I enjoyed them several times over the winter.
Stacked Vegetable Quesadillas
I got a great cookbook called Simply in Season from Half price books years ago. It breaks recipes out by the four seasons and highlights which vegetables are being used on each page, which is helpful when you have a certain vegetable(s) that you’re looking to cook with. Here is a recipe from that cookbook that I've made a few times and love because it’s pretty easy and versatile - substitute whatever veggies are in season. Or add meat, beans, vegan cheese.
DIY Almond Milk Recipe
If you’re vegan or like myself, lactose intolerant, you may be buying almond milk or some other milk alternative and noticed that most of them have ingredients that don’t sound natural and may or may not be safe to drink, the jury’s still out. Until the science is conclusive, I prefer to make my own. I went through a period a few years ago where I made my own almond milk but life happened and I fell out of the habit. Truth be told, I didn’t love the straining part of the process - it was messy and I could never think of what to do with the leftover pulp. I recently saw in a cookbook where the author suggested something super helpful:
Berry Clafoutis Recipe
If you missed the July 3rd box or just happen to misplace recipe cards like I do, here is the recipe for Berry Clafoutis (pronouced kluh•faw•tuhs). This recipe has been super popular in the Seat at the Table FB group and is described as not too sweet and can be altered to be dairy free as well as gluten free by a couple of our members. Without further ado, I give you