thoughtful consumption

The goods… Delivery was a day early this week, but that worked out fine. Here’s the standard bag (more or less). 8 pretty apples (I’d already eaten 3 by the time I took this picture!) kohlrabi butternut squash arugula Swiss chard sweet potatoes (There are more sweet potatoes hiding in the arugula, too!) Here are [...]

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The recap… Here’s what became of some of my stuff this week. Everyone loved the salad (loose leaf lettuce, arugula, and radishes) at my father’s birthday party. And my parents loved the Komatsuna greens. We loved our spinach and shrimp alfredo. I blanched the spinach and then made a half recipe of the mock alfredo [...]

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This week’s bag Here is the standard subscription stuff. Komatsuna greens butterhead lettuce arugula loose leaf lettuce apples broccoli Here are the premium add-ons. pretty little radishes (These might have been standard items.) potatoes eggs lavender goat’s milk soap parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme! And here’s the honey and oregano I ordered from the online [...]

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Maybe greens aren’t so bad after all. I made three attempts to use greens with pasta. The first one I just added some kale to pasta with pine nuts. It wasn’t a lot of kale, and it wasn’t bad. I tore it in to pieces and blanched it for about 30 seconds. Then tossed it [...]

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It’s really fall now… No more straggling tomatoes or peppers or green beans. But lots of great stuff! Here’s this week’s standard bag. 5 apples 2 heads of butterhead lettuce mixed greens spinach loose leaf lettuce (There was more, but we had some for supper.) 2 sweet potatoes a bag of turnips, rutabagas, and mixed [...]

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Fried Green Tomatoes! We fried the tomatoes, and it worked really well. I dipped them in buttermilk and then cornmeal with some salt, pepper and paprika. The sweet potatoes were so delicious that they got eaten all the way down to the skin. Here’s the proof. I stir-fried the Komatsuna greens with onions, ginger, garlic [...]

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So I caved and bought a 10# bag of ugly sweet potatoes. I’ve been so pleased with the CSA sweet potatoes; they’re like what grocery store sweet potatoes wish they could be. Here are my uglies. Here’s my regular subscription stuff… Green tomatoes Sweet potatoes Chard Apples Komatsuma greens Acorn squash Here’s what I think [...]

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Here’s what I have to report from this week. Charlie is no more. But he had a good long life (for a squash-o-lantern) and will be missed. Radish greens work in “spinach” dip. My step-son said the other night, “You know, I think I kind of like radishes.” I agree. Our salads will seem sad [...]

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