Originally posted by Jess – June 15, 2015
A very exciting day as the 2015 Summer CSA has begun at Springdell! Sarah and I look forward to picking up our first summer share box on Friday, in the meantime, we’ll continue to “Tell”about the pre-season sharebox that we’re enjoying as we patiently await the end of the week!
Spinach. It’s a versatile veggie available throughout most of the season. It’s great raw or cooked, has a solid amount of protein, calcium, and vitamin C. Popeye totally knew the score.
Tonight I decided to try a simple cream of spinach soup. In a saucepan, I started with warming 4 cups of homemade veggie broth from my chest freezer. As it worked to a light boil, I put about 4 tablespoons of Amish Roll Butter into another saucepan before adding a chopped onion and 3 cloves of minced garlic.
After stirring the onion for a few until it began to soften, I added in roughly 2 tablespoons of flour. As I was quickly stirring things up, I began to slowly and carefully whisk in the broth to the onion/flour pan (aka making a roux.)
Next, in went my spinach!
After about 15 minutes of simmering the spinach in the roux, I took things off the heat and added a healthy squeeze (about 2 teaspoons) of fresh lemon juice. A quick and careful trip through the blender (an immersion blender would work, too- careful as the soup is obviously hot) and the soup was ready for a bit of heavy cream, salt and pepper to taste.
I put a few thin shavings of the West River Creamery Londonderry Cheese on top and watched it melt in. This went great with a grilled cheese.
