Food Bloog
May. 13th, 2009 08:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hrjPicked 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
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
