CSA Box 4 & 5
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sarahbyrddDue to car trouble, we got a little discombublated with the box pickup and had to get box 4 on the saturday rather than the wednesday so these two batches kinda got lumped together in our kitchen.
Week 3: 1 lb. of honey, 2 heads of lettuce, 1 bunch of radish, spinach, snap peas, and squash.
Week 4: one dozen corn, beets, cucumbers, yellow, green and golden zucchini squash, and a pint of blueberries.
Radishes got sauteed to go with a lamb dish and the eggs from the previous week became pavlovas and hollandaise sauce. Snap peas went into salads and were eaten with white bean dip, spinach was creamed, and some of the squash has been grilled or boiled and other squash is in the fridge waiting to be eaten.
I plan on making blueberry muffins tomorrow, we've planned a beet/cuke/feta salad, we'll par-cook and freeze a the corn we think we won't get to this week, and I'll make a batch of "zucchini goo" to freeze (eventually, I'd like to pressure can things like this) for future use.
Thus far, we've lost a few yellow squash and beet tops to spoilage, but we're still doing a pretty good job of keeping up with the produce. The one bag of bad spinach which bytchearse reported was replaced by the farm at the next pickup. He reports that our grocery bill is down, so a month in I'm inclined to call this a success.
Not from the CSA: I made a batch of my apricot cordial, and then had the clever idea of adding the boozy apricots to the rumtopf. The rumtopf is smelling fantastic; it's going to be amazing by December.
Week 3: 1 lb. of honey, 2 heads of lettuce, 1 bunch of radish, spinach, snap peas, and squash.
Week 4: one dozen corn, beets, cucumbers, yellow, green and golden zucchini squash, and a pint of blueberries.
Radishes got sauteed to go with a lamb dish and the eggs from the previous week became pavlovas and hollandaise sauce. Snap peas went into salads and were eaten with white bean dip, spinach was creamed, and some of the squash has been grilled or boiled and other squash is in the fridge waiting to be eaten.
I plan on making blueberry muffins tomorrow, we've planned a beet/cuke/feta salad, we'll par-cook and freeze a the corn we think we won't get to this week, and I'll make a batch of "zucchini goo" to freeze (eventually, I'd like to pressure can things like this) for future use.
Thus far, we've lost a few yellow squash and beet tops to spoilage, but we're still doing a pretty good job of keeping up with the produce. The one bag of bad spinach which bytchearse reported was replaced by the farm at the next pickup. He reports that our grocery bill is down, so a month in I'm inclined to call this a success.
Not from the CSA: I made a batch of my apricot cordial, and then had the clever idea of adding the boozy apricots to the rumtopf. The rumtopf is smelling fantastic; it's going to be amazing by December.
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Date: 2011-07-20 11:56 pm (UTC)