thoughtful consumption

Check out the goods! I was really excited to see the lettuce.

• 3 heads of lettuce, beautiful lettuce
• 4 sweet potatoes
• 3 white potatoes
• 5 apples
• a bunch of radishes
• cherry tomatoes
• mess of greens

This season I upgraded to a premium bag. So I’ll try to separate it out for reference. The above stuff is pretty much the standard bag according to our weekly CSA flyer, and below is the premium extras.

• 3 tomatoes
• 3 heads of garlic
• half dozen eggs
• 1 zucchini
• herbs: parsley, chives, and lemon verbena

This week’s plan

Potatoes (both sweet and white) will be baked in the microwave and eaten up. We’ll put some of the parsley and chives on the white potatoes.

These apples are made for snacking. That is what they’ll do….

Radishes will get 1) sliced thinly and added to salads, and 2) chopped into little chunks tossed in Italian dressing and parmesan cheese and roasted in the oven or toaster oven. This makes a good, easy side dish.

Cherry tomatoes will join the radishes in salads. They also might get sliced and put on pita crisps along with the parsley and chives.

Big tomatoes. Hmmm. I might get a Vidalia at the store and make sliced tomato sandwiches. Or they could get cooked up with garlic for some Italianesque recipe to be named later.

Greens will get cooked, chopped, and frozen to await their chance to become “spinach”-artichoke dip. I just made some dip last week and it’s one of those things you can’t eat all the time. Or they may wind up with my mom. She and my dad like greens a lot.

Parsley and chives: baked potatoes, pita crisps, and salad add-ons

Lemon verbena: I guess there is a Santa Claus! This week I got enough lemon verbena to try the lemon verbena syrup recipe I mentioned last week. I’ll let you know how it goes.

I don’t have any big plans for the eggs yet. A lot of times we just make scrambled cheese eggs. Maybe we’ll try omelets with tomatoes and herbs.