Fresh Mint tea

 

Todays Pickup

Carrots (finally)
Beets
Parsley
Grilling onions
Kale
Lettuce (who knew?)
A little cilantro
Broccoli (yay!)

oh yeah and lettuce (more)

Catch-up

Being several weeks behind, i have to think hard to remember what we did with our share. I have nothing but fond memories about it though.

With the exception of always being tired, I feel pretty good too. Doing something good, that's good for ya.

:)

Turnips

The turnips were wonderful. Rare, I would say. Not many did we get. But we made roasted veggies with them included and they rocked. looking forward to next year. don't think the turnips will be back.

The dill, sidelined

Froze everything we had left. Too good to pass up fresh, but for good reason. It's been sidelined for now.

Dill

Got some nice light basa fillets, rubbed them in chopped dill, olive oil and a bit of garlic. Roasted in the oven, in pachetto. This was good stuff.

Beets

The first beets have arrived if a little skant. But, I roasted them (my favorite way) and cooked the greens italian style; with just a little garlic and olive oil.

Good.
But, not nearly as good as the orange ones I got from the CSA; beet and green! The orange beet greens are strictly green and have a really nice bitterness to them. And the orange beets?? You can't touch them. I made them again but in the oven (yes, retarded when it was 90 outside) and they roasted for a good long time. Taste like butter balls. And no mess. My vote for the CSA next year.

Ramble on.

Salad Salad Salad

For the first few weeks, we were eating salad every meal for everyday and still fighting by Tuesday.

But we did it (with a small exception)

This week, we were both NOT in the mood for lettuce at all. And it's really pretty butter lettuce. 2 full heads.

Previously, we were eating some awesome salads. Lots of simple olive oil and basalmic salads. Some had lemon zest, some had lemon juice. Some had slices of roasted leg of lamb. They were my favorites. Balsamic reduction on top. Yummy.

tonite, the butter lettuce sits (as I snuck some of my favorite orange beets to supplant the red ones we got at CSA)

Kale

Joy of Cooking recipe for baked Kale. Looks great. Smells great. We'll see in 20 minutes

Introduction

In the dead of winter we read about CSA's (Community Supported Agriculture) and thought that they were a great Idea.

Ours is Grant Farms in Wellington. We made the decision to join with a little prompt from our Buy Local Book (50$ discount) that we got at the Farmers Market (more about that within.) In a nutshell, we get a weekly delivery of fresh produce starting in mid June and lasts until the season is finished (close to 26 weeks)

We bought a small share since it's just the two of us, figuring that it would be no problem dealing with the amount. And, so far it hasn't been (although we've been eating lettuce for just about every day for every meal since we started)

26 Weeks of CSA is our attempt to document and enjoy the commitment we've made to using everything we get each week. It certainly will be a challenge to use it all in interesting ways over the course but we're off to a good start.

So far so GREAT I would say; we're at week 4 as we start this Blog. There will be some catching up to do and I'm pretty sure we're having a salad tonite to boot.