thoughtful consumption

Here’s what was in my box this week.

3/11 Family pack plus muffins

• cabbage
• green leaf lettuce
• red leaf lettuce
• Asian turnips with greens
• green onions
• ½ dozen eggs
• Rosemary
• 4 apples
• ½ dozen chocolate raspberry pecan muffins

I’m excited about the cabbage. (Clearly, I need to get out more.) Part of the cabbage will go into fried rice along with some of the Asian turnips and green onions. The rest will either become cole slaw or corned beef and cabbage for St. Patrick’s Day. This fresh cabbage is nice even just steamed by itself for a side dish. Who knew cabbage could be so much fun?

More salad will be great, but I’m also going to try to use the lettuce in other ways like on sandwiches or maybe as a wrap for the stir-fry. I’ll still slice the smaller Asian turnips for salad along with the green onions, but I’ll use the larger turnips in the stir-fry. I’ve just been treating these Asian turnip greens like lettuce.  They work great raw in the salad.  And I love these green onions. It’s so handy to have the white parts and green parts to use for different things.

I’m teaching again for a couple of months, and so I’m learning how to pack CSA lunches for the daily grind. So far it’s been salad with sliced turnips and some chicken or lunch meat. I pack the lettuce separate from the turnips, meat, and dressing and then mix it all up at lunch. I’ve also taken apples along with cheese and crackers. I can’t stand brown apples, so I pack a little knife. (And fig newtons! Maybe they’re not a CSA product, but they’re an essential part of my afternoons.) Next week, I plan on taking the fried rice (and more fig newtons).

I’ve still got some eggs from last week, so I hope to do some baking this weekend. Biscotti and cookies, most likely. And scrambled eggs for supper! I tend to hoard the eggs until we’ve got a bunch. Then I go through them all in a weekend, and the cycle continues.

And the muffins! Breakfast is now a muffin and yogurt. Woo-hoo! Chocolate for breakfast is always good idea. And I like the pecans in the muffins; it’s a nice change from walnuts.

Hope you’re having as much fun as I am!