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My CSA box comes Wednesday night, so Thursday is vegetable day.  (CSA = Community Supported Agriculture; you pay a fee up front, at the beginning of planting season, and reap your reward in vegetables all summer and fall.)

Last week I hadn't entered enough of my books for EYB to help, but this week ... ah, this week is different.  I have every indexed book I own up on my EYB bookshelf.  It took me maybe 20 minutes tops to figure out what I'm doing with every single thing in the box.  Permit me to share with you:

arugula

   1st half
   Crunchy roasted potato and arugula salad
   from Seven Fires
   by Francis Mallmann & Peter Kaminsky

   2nd half, see Greens and potatoes from Crete below

beets

   1st half
   Shredded beet, apple, and currant salad with apple vinaigrette
   from Vegan Soul Kitchen
   by Bryant Terry

   2nd half
   Pickled beet salad
   from Joy of Cooking: 75th Anniversary Edition

beet greens

   Creamed swiss chard
   The Soul of a New Cuisine
   by Marcus Samuelsson

broccoli

   Broccoli, cauliflower, or just about anything else, Roman style
   from How to Cook Everything Vegetarian
   by Mark Bittman

cucumbers

   1st half
   Cooling oasis salad with tomatoes and herbs
   from Beyond the Great Wall
   by Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid

leeks

   see Greens and potatoes from Crete, below

potatoes

   1st third added in to the lamb and sauce from Tuesday

   2nd third, see Crunchy roasted potato and arugula salad above

   3rd third
   Greens and potatoes from Crete
   from The Foods of the Greek Islands
   by Aglaia Kremezi and Jim Botsacos

Plus sweet peppers and tomatoes, which are never a problem; I eat them while I'm working on the rest.  (As my great-grandmother used to say, "The cook gets the licks.")

xxx, mcvl

That all sounds amazing - and so healthy!  One day, when I have the time, I would love to work out a way of contacting all the CSAs around the country and telling them about EYB as I think it would be a huge benefit to their members.  One of the repeated cries you hear on discussion boards from CSA members is "Help! I have a box of x vegetable - what interesting ways can I use it up?".  With EYB you can instantly find all the recipes for that vegetable that you have in your cookbooks, or even if you don't find what you want in your own books, look in the library for some inspiration.

I agree - we've got something very similar in the Netherlands called a "groententas" (vegetable bag), where you get a subscription to get a bag filled with organic seasonal vegetables (of their choice) every week.

EYB is wonderful for finding something different to do when you have cabbage again, and for finding some recipe to try when you've got burdock root and don't have a clue what to do with it.

I'm not sure whether you are saying that you cannot find the book or the specific recipe.

If locating the recipe is the problem I don't own this book to check for you, but I think the issue is that the recipe is listed as Swiss chard with beet greens as a variable so you would need to search for chard.  When you don't see a result you expect, look in the Only show filters on the right and see how many recipes contain the ingredient category you are looking for.  So for the beet greens you would look at the filters Ingredients, Vegetables, Cooking greens and you would see this book contains 20 recipes for greens.  There is one listed in this category for beet/chard, and when I select this as the filter, I see Creamed Swiss chard.  Is that the one you are looking for?

If your issue is that you cannot find the book, enter "soul of a new cuisine" in your Bookshelf search box - if in Books then that is the only book that comes up, if in Recipes then you see the 180 recipes listed that you can either search through by adding another search term in the search box or filter through using the Only show... filters.

There is a Report an error button at the bottom of every page but it's good to post questions on the Forum, particularly about the new version of the webiste, so that everyone can learn from the answers.

No, I should apologize!  I'm so used to answering questions that I wasn't seeing the joke.