CSA Week 3

For a second week in a row, we've managed to keep up with the CSA and use our full share. A lot of stuff (radishes, lettuces, sprouts) ended up in salads. We roasted the asparagus with balsamic brown butter (yum.) The spinach got souped. The mint was used to make mojitos and encrust lamb chops, both of which were awesome. Overall, it was a good share.

On to this week, which contains our first real CSA roadblock of the year.

Cabbage is destined for slaw and soup.

We accidentally ended up with an absurd mushroom bounty. We forgot that we had picked some up from the store, so we bought a second package. Then, we got some in this share. That's a lotta mushrooms. Hopefully between omelettes and other uses, we can get them used up.

Little Gem Lettuce is adorable, and makes one large or two small salads.

Sugar Snap Peas are tasty, but this is too many to put on salads. Maybe we'll go for a mushroom and pea stir fry?

Parsley.

Lettuce.

Collards are getting subbed for kale in a soup with the cabbage.

Now this is what a strawberry share should look like. These were so sweet and delicious, we ate the bulk when we got them home and only had a few leftover to bring as lunch the next day.

Garlic Scapes we usually just sub for garlic.

The first zucchini of the season is slated for zucchini bread.

Meet our nemesis: Grape Leaves. The only thing we can find to do with these is stuff 'em, and neither of us are very gung ho about any of the recipes for those we have seen. Also, eight leaves seems like too few to make a full recipe of anything, but we certainly aren't going to go buy more. This will be the first item of the CSA that we don't use, though I think we deserve credit for willfully composting them rather than letting them rot in the fridge for two weeks and then tossing them shamefully in the night.