Ingredients: Dressing: 3 tablespoons freshly squeezed Meyer lemon juice 1/4 cup olive oil 1 tablespoon diced shallot 1/4 teaspoon sea salt Salad: 6-8 cups mixed greens, torn into bite-size pieces (lettuces, mizuna, mustard greens, cilantro, etc.) 1 avocado, sliced with a squeeze of lemon juice to prevent browning 3 medium beets, trimmed and washed 1 [...]
We made this salad for the Solstice celebration. It is a free flowing salad, using whatever your heart desires from the CSA box. This is what we used… Ingredients: SALAD 1 bunch chard, ends removed, stems chopped, and leaves cut into bite-size pieces 1 bunch mizuna and tatsoi, stems removed 1 bunch radishes, sliced, stems [...]
Ingredients: ½ pound radicchio, torn into bite-size pieces handful of mizuna 6 leaves lettuce, torn into bite-sized pieces Yogurty Orange Vinaigrette (click for recipe) 2 oranges, sectioned, sections removed from membranes ½ cup lightly toasted pistachios Directions: Wash the radicchio, mizuna, and lettuce, then spin dry and transfer to a large bowl. Add about 6 [...]
Ingredients: 1 head of butter lettuce 2-3 cups of mizuna or tatsoi 1 carrot, cut into fine matchsticks (cut the carrot on the diagonal in thin cuts then cut into strips) 1 beet, peeled and grated 6-8 radishes, cut into rounds then strips Herb Dressing (recipe follows) freshly ground black pepper Directions: Separate the leaves [...]
Ingredients: 1 celeriac (celery root) 3 tablespoons olive oil ¾ teaspoon sea salt, divided ¼ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper 1 love garlic 4 teaspoons sherry vinegar or your choice 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard 8 cups arugula, stems trimmed 3 cups mizuna 1/3 cup dried cranberries Directions: 1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees. 2. Cut [...]
Ingredients: 3 cups mizuna 3 cups arugula 6 radishes, sliced thinly ¼ cup toasted pumpkin seeds 2 tablespoons dried cranberries ¼ cup chopped fresh herbs; such as cilantro, flat-leafed parsley, mint, and basil Dressing: 4 tablespoons olive oil juice of ½ lemon 1 clove garlic, crushed sea salt and pepper to taste Directions: 1. Wash [...]
Ingredients: 1 package of fresh spinach pasta 7 tablespoons soft butter 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard 3 shallots, finely chopped 2 cloves garlic, minced 2 teaspoons balsamic vinegar, or more to taste 1 tablespoons parsley or handful mizuna, roughly chopped 1 cup breadcrumbs 2 sun-dried tomatoes, cut into small pieces 3-4 cups broccoli and romanesco florets, [...]
Ingredients: 1 small clove garlic 3 tablespoons sherry vinegar 2 tablespoons white-wine vinegar 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard 1 tablespoon minced shallots ½ teaspoon honey 1/3 cup olive oil ¾ pounds mizuna 1 large pear, cored and thinly sliced (I use apple instead of pear sometimes) ½ cup shaved Parmesan Directions: 1. Mince and mash the [...]
A member who prefers to remain anonymous sent me these great suggestions. He, his wife and two children manage to consume TWO shares a week, so I know they know what to do with greens! We eat mizuna in many ways, but here are just a few: As a salad. Toss mizuna with whatever other [...]
Mizuna, a member of the mustard family, has a delicate, feather-like (or sometimes described as sawtooth) multi-pronged pale to medium-green leaf on a whitish stem. You’ve probably seen baby mizuna in mesclun or salad mixes in stores or at restaurants. Mizuna in the field. Arugula, also a member of the mustard family, has [...]