thoughtful consumption

Nice haul this week!

basil
apples (These look like baking apples, but they’re my favorites for eating.)
radishes with greens
lettuce
butternut squash
Pioneer porridge
pepper jelly
onion
bean sprouts
eggs
baby squash and zucchini
okra
Asian eggplant

Online store order
I restrained myself this week and only ordered sorrel and garlic from the online store. Next week: sausage, cheddar cheese, and goat milk soap! Or maybe goat cheese. So [...]

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I saved the seeds from the acorn squash we had for lunch yesterday and roasted them according to this recipe. It calls for tossing the seeds in olive oil and salt and roasting them at 275 for 10 minutes or so. Since there weren’t that many seeds, I roasted them in the toaster oven.
They were [...]

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Today’s lunch was a far happier meal.
Chris had fried green tomatoes,
and then we had pan-fried catfish topped with fresh herbs, microwaved acorn squash, and Napa cabbage and Vidalia coleslaw.

Can’t wait to see what comes tomorrow!

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Sunday’s supper was no fun at all.
I’d planned pasta with mushrooms and fresh herbs. (How to Cook Everything, p. 518 for those following at home.)
I chopped up some parcel, lovage, savory, and tarragon.

Then I chopped up some garlic and two tiny little green onions from our garden.

Then I chopped up the mushrooms.

However, when I started [...]

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Here’s a salad made of sorrel, nasturtium leaves, salad burnet, and sliced radishes. Made me feel like a fuzzy brown bunny nibbling on fresh leaves.

Saturday I lunched alone but very happily.

Tomato soup, a.k.a. a can of V8 with a little red wine, lots of summer savory, and Parmesan cheese
Two scrambled eggs with chopped tarragon
Multigrain bread [...]

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radishes! (I’ve been looking forward to these.)
onion
eggs
apples
kale
breathtakingly pretty lettuce
edamame (This is about half of my order; I gave the rest to my neighbor Lucy.)
Zephyr squash
a large quantity of wonderful herbs

Herb bonanza!
After I put everything else away, I went through the herbs that were part of my gourmet upgrade. There was a lot to find.
And more!
After [...]

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I don’t think I’ve ever seen this much rain. I hope everyone’s doing okay. Looks like the farmers and CSA packers will have a couple of rough days getting this week’s orders ready. I know how drought affects what’s available. Guess we’ll see what too much rain does.
At this point, there are few bright spots [...]

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Just got back from Arizona visiting family. A few days in Arizona makes me appreciate the climate here. I don’t like dry, and neither do my sinuses.
Thankfully, my neighbor Lucy grabbed my CSA box Wednesday – including the largest head of Napa cabbage we’ve ever seen.

herbs
green beans
muscadines
Napa cabbage
apples
clover honey
Asian eggplant
sweet potatoes
eggs
nut mix

Herbs
I was happy to [...]

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Chili oil
Thursday James mentioned putting chili oil on pasta, and I remembered drying hot peppers last summer and putting them away. So I dug them out and made two kinds of chili oil: Asian (with canola and dark sesame) and Italian (with olive oil).

With gloves on, I seeded and chopped the dried peppers – about [...]

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Here’s what I got this week.

apples
sweet potatoes
pair of pears
pancake mix
basil
lettuce
sorrel
field peas
okra
squash
eggs
spice rub

I also ordered onions and garlic from the online store.

However, for lunch today, we ate leftovers: sliced tomatoes, field peas and black rice, and green bean casserole that looks oddly like macaroni and cheese.

Supper was another story. We had shrimp in lemon garlic [...]

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