thoughtful consumption

sausage chevre (goat cheese) arugula honey-flax-wheat bread spinach 2 heads of lettuce popping corn watercress (This was really wet! Check yours and wrap it in a paper towel in another bag if necessary.) sorrel coffee eggs sweet potatoes corn meal herb mix Leiden cheese cabbage carrots kabocha squash most of a blueberry-oat mini loaf not [...]

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Ribs We cooked the ribs from a couple of deliveries ago. I “grilled” them in the oven according to a recipe from How To Cook Everything. I basted them during the last roasting part with a balsamic-orange dressing I originally made for our supper guests. I wasn’t thrilled with it as a salad dressing, but [...]

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Blueberry pancakes We made these with the whole-grain pancake mix from the CSA and frozen blueberries from last summer’s deliveries. I suppose we could have used CSA eggs, but we went with this ricotta cheese recipe instead. Chris and I are trying to learn how to do pancakes for two. This time, we made the [...]

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Dry shrimp run Before I served the shrimp from this week’s delivery to guests, I thought Chris and I should try it out. So I defrosted and cleaned a handful. Then I set out making a garlicky-tomato sauce. I started with sautéing some minced garlic in olive oil. I added a little red wine, a [...]

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Ezekiel bread Carolina Gold rice hydroponic lettuce (green and red) mixed leaf lettuce butternut squash Bordeaux spinach wildflower honey arugula strawberries eggs carrots Shiitake mushrooms oyster mushrooms mini-breads chervil, lemon thyme, and salad burnet Sea Island red peas 2 lbs shrimp! I also ordered three things from the store dried herbal tea mix creamed honey [...]

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Tonight we had a very CSA supper. Kale with raisins and pine nuts, baked sweet potatoes, and toasted honey-flax-wheat bread with wildflower honey. We whine about kale a lot, but this wasn’t so bad. We cleaned our plates and everything. Tomorrow I’m going to make fried rice with what I’ve got left: kale, turnips, sprouts, [...]

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We love kabocha squash! It’s now our favorite winter squash now even though we’re mighty fond of butternut and acorn. (Of course, it terms of specific squash, these two guys are still my favorite.) Preparation I’m still not at the stage where I do anything fancy with it. I just bake it in the oven [...]

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Pre-season (and early spring) always means lots of salad. And salad goes with lots of things. Here are some of the meals Chris and I have had with salad. scrambled eggs sausage and kabocha squash (More on kabocha squash later. And this supper was one of my favorites ever. It’s when I figured out that [...]

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