Food Bloog

[hrj]

Picked up my first CSA veggie box today and found that my fears of being inundated by vast quantities of produce are not yet realized (although I understand the volume will pick up later in the summer). At this point it will still need to be supplemented by the salad fixings that make up my work lunches and by onions and celery (which I use generously in my stir-fries). The contents are:

carrots (bunch)
mustard greens (bunch)
asparagus (bunch)
red potatoes (10 medium)
dill (bunch)
strawberries (pint)

Since each of the bunches is about one dinner's worth of volume, and the potatoes about two, this covers about 5 dinner's worth. Less coverage in terms of fruit -- about two dinner's worth (although I don't always have fruit with dinner). But breakfast (fruit for smoothies) and lunch (salad and fruit) aren't covered. It will be interesting to see how it goes. It tends to make most sense to shop for the breakfast and lunch produce on Sunday afternoon, so for the moment that's a convenient time to eke out whatever other meals aren't covered.

Tonight's menu:

half the asparagus, steamed, drizzled with olive oil and sprinkled with truffle salt
2 boiled potatoes, diced, stirred up with the cream off the top of the cream-top yogurt (that I got to start a new yogurt culture) and some chopped dill
and for the non-CSA part, a sort of chicken cacciatore, but including more of the dill and heavy on the onions and tomatoes
strawberries & cream for dessert

Comments

[dave-orphal.livejournal.com]

YUM!

I love the CSA box Wendy and I get -- I think we're using the same company as you -- occasionally, we get something we don't like, but we eat most of it most weeks.

[norayn.livejournal.com]

Well I hope you had a nice Birthday!!!

Vrederun

[ichseke.livejournal.com]

So it looks like about 2/3 overlap with what we got on the right coast. Potatoes will run June-August here; carrots & dill aren't on the menu for our CSA, but I'm growing my own dill & carrots, though perfectly tolerable, don't actually rock my world.

Our gang seem to be a lot heavier on the greenery than yours -- a medley of mustard greens plus young collards sauteed up nicely last night with lots of garlic; steamed spinach w/ malt vinegar for lunch today. That leaves the kale and the head lettuce -- the latter for salad tonight alongside the asparagus, which I adore & B barely tolerates. I try not to force him to eat a lot, 'cause I'm so understanding.

[albionwood.livejournal.com]

Strawberries already, and carrots too! Our strawbs are just forming - actually I saw the first hints of pink today. Carrots, sown way back in February, are still tiny. Asparagus OTOH is all grown out, tho perhaps that's because I didn't pick it much. And my tatties aren't ready yet, but they didn't go in until [checks spreadsheet] March 11.

No lettuce? My neighbors are selling lettuce by the bushel already. As well as spinach, orach, beets, chard, kale, and bok choy (grr... mine failed, theirs thrived).

[hrj.livejournal.com]

And lettuce! I forgot to mention the lettuce! The strawberries were the most heavenly I've tasted in ages (and that includes the ones from my own yard).