More Cabbage (please stop giving it to us!)

This last round gave us an over abundance of cabbage - 2 heads plus 2 bok choy!  I've been enjoying the cabbage but this is a bit much!

Arugula
Kale
Lettuce
Green Onions
2 Leeks
Broccoli - 2 heads
2 Bok Choy
5 Carrots
2 heads of Cabbage
2 Green Bell Peppers
1 package Grape Tomatoes
Crimini Mushrooms
Shitake Mushrooms
9 Potatoes
3 large Beets

We started out making a green salad to take to a potluck.  I used the lettuce, 1 bell pepper, and most of the tomatoes for that.  About half was eaten at the potluck and we ate the other half with tuna on top.

We ate the kale steamed with several other meals.

I made Brothy Chinese Noodles with the bok choy and used a head of cabbage instead of the noodles.  That actually worked quite well and the soup didn't have the thick texture that the broth took on last time.  I'm not sure if that was because we didn't have starch from the noodles or because I thinned out the homemade broth a little more than last time.

Next I made Wild Mushroom Risotto which used up all the mushrooms.  We ate it with Roasted Chicken.  They went well together.  We didn't like it quite as the other risotto we usually make, but it was still good.  It had an earthier flavor.  I would make it again if we get a lot of mushrooms another time.

I used the broccoli and arugula to make a Quiche.  This recipe was better tasting than the other one I tried.  I did use too much broccoli though.  I tried to cram both heads into this quiche, even though the recipe only called for one.  They are not joking!  It tasted fine but had more broccoli than egg in it, I think!  The directions are also not well written, they seems to skip some steps or have them out of order.  I missed sautéing the onion with the arugula and had to add it raw at the last minute.  It still tasted fine, but I think I'll write out my own version for next time!

Last night I used this Mashed Parsnips and Potatoes Recipe but used a turnip instead of the parsnips.  I didn't actually weigh any of the items I just used the 4 potatoes and 1 turnip left over from the previous box.  I was worried they would start to go bad.  The leeks we had were fairly large, so I only used one of them.  This turned out great, we both enjoyed it more than the time we made it with parsnips.  The turnip has a milder flavor.