First, let’s start off with salad stuff. Roma tomatoes sorrel lettuce spinach carrots cucumber Now I normally wouldn’t put Romas in salad, but it’s just too cool to have local lettuce and tomatoes at the same time. So this salad will have lettuce, sliced tomatoes, and sliced cucumbers. Wow! There’s not a lot of lettuce, [...]
Archive for March, 2010
3/31 lettuce, tomatoes, and cucumber – oh, my!
Posted in CSA reports, Farmers Fresh CSA on March 31, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Two vegetarian meals (well, except for the shrimp)
Posted in CSA reports, Farmers Fresh CSA on March 31, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Shrimp Fried Rice This week’s fried rice was some of the best yet. Here’s the prep. diced celery, onions, and baby turnips minced garlic, chopped watercress stems, and chopped turnip green stems watercress leaves and turnip green leaves crunchy bean sprouts and eggs half-dozen shrimp, chopped
Member Pack 2010 and Food Rules
Posted in CSA reports, Farmers Fresh CSA on March 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I got my renewal member’s pack this week. Here’s what was in it: toaster pancakes creamed honey red pepper jam shopping bag yummy granola cornmeal Food Rules by Michael Pollan
CSA meal planning at my house
Posted in CSA notes, Tips, tagged CSA on March 26, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Feeding a family takes planning – especially with a CSA subscription. Here’s an overview of how I plan our food on a weekly basis. Sunday: Check the CSA menu and online store Usually, updates to the weekly menus and online store are available by Sunday afternoon. The CSA menus are just for getting an idea [...]
3/24 reporting in
Posted in CSA reports, Farmers Fresh CSA on March 26, 2010 | 3 Comments »
This week’s delivery in three parts hydroponic lettuce yogurt sorrel! sprouts baby turnips with greens yellow polenta carrots I was happy to find the bonus sorrel leaves in my bag of lettuce. Sorrel leaves and cheese is currently my favorite breakfast.
3/17 – A St. Patrick’s Day Delivery (cabbage included)
Posted in CSA reports, Farmers Fresh CSA on March 18, 2010 | 2 Comments »
For this St Patrick’s Day delivery, I’ll divide the discussion into three parts – like a shamrock! Part 1 bean sprouts honey yogurt apple pie jam cabbage popping corn watercress sweet potatoes The bean sprouts are going to my mom because she has a pad thai recipe she’s been wanting to try. The yogurt was [...]
Salad notes
Posted in CSA notes, Produce, Squash and Pumpkin on March 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Salad’s a big part of spring and fall CSA-dom. Here are some of my thoughts on how to get the most out of your CSA salads. Tools There are two essential salad tools: a salad spinner and a good sharp knife (or two). I used to think that a salad spinner was just another kitchen [...]
CSA meal planning tip – pizza night!
Posted in CSA reports, Farmers Fresh CSA, tagged CSA on March 9, 2010 | 4 Comments »
I’m really sorry I haven’t had time to post anything recently. I’ve got a huge deadline this Thursday. Chris and I have both been working our tails off to make it. Here’s one tip for now about CSA meal planning – order pizza. I’m serious! The day you get your box, spend all your energy [...]