CSA 2010 - Week 2

Thanks to a busted DSL modem and irritation at ATT, I am without internet at home until I can get high speed set up from Comcast, which means I am posting this as I eat breakfast at work. I may get pictures up later, but for now it's gonna be a huge wall o' text.

Week 1 of the CSA went well overall. We used all of the veggies as planned, and did pretty well with the fruit. We didn't go into the fruit with a very good strategy (it was pretty much eat it as fast as we can) which I think did us a disservice. We ate so much last week that we got a little sick of it, and this week we have none left. I think that for the next fruit share we will try to preserve (freeze, jelly, dry) half of it so we can spread it across both weeks. We'll see what we get next week and how that goes for us.

On to this week's share!

Beets are one of those foods that we never would have thought to try in the past because... ew, beets. Now we find ourselves looking forward to them every year. This year we even saved the greens and cooked them along with the baby turnip greens to top a winter green pizza. We'll eat the beets too, though since I am at work I can't call out to Mary to ask her what we have planned for them. Something delicious I am sure, and I believe a new recipe for us.

Hidden in with the lettuce was a small handful of radishes. Fitting, since both will get en-salad-ed. Hrm. That came out better in my head.

You'd think with us using the beet and turnip greens that we must have had a green shortage, but you'd be wrong. We also got spinach and kale. We used both in a pasta fagiole dish already, and have some kale leftover. We have a ton of kale recipes, so I am sure that's headed somewhere tasty.

While still faced with an onslaught of zucchini, at least this CSA likes to mix it up. We got a normal looking green one along with a fun yellow one with some faint white coloration and a green cap. Maybe if we keep getting heirloom varieties we'll have to start distinguishing them, but for now they both went into a quiche-like pie.

Scallions have no specific plans, but are pretty easy to use up.

Garlic scapes are likely to end up in naan, since we are planning on grilling for the 4th even though our deck will be post-demo, pre-rebuild. It's more fun with the green flecks anyway.

One huge head of cauliflower. Cauliflower cooked in any way is another item we never thought we'd like, but roasting once again proved us wrong. Not sure what we have slated for this big fella, but I wouldn't be surprised if it ended up in multiple dishes given the size.

One tiny head of broccoli, which we augmented with another small head from the swap box. I guess the good spring shifted this early, because it really seems like we are in the tail end of it already and it's only week two.

One head? Bulb? Wad? of Kohlrabi (which, if you can believe, we augmented with another from the swap box.) Despite looking like the lovechild of Sputnik and a softball, this has a pretty mild flavor in the cabbage family. We have a gratin planned for it along with the actual fruit of the turnips.