thoughtful consumption

Welcome back to Summer CSA 2009!

• three grain pancake mix
• green beans
• blueberries
• chard
• cucumbers
• blackberries
• eggs
• chives, chervil, tarragon, and parsley
• radishes
• carrots
• chocolate raspberry muffins
• lettuce (not pictured because we ate it all Wednesday night!)

Hmmm… Blueberries and pancake mix… blueberries and pancake mix. Ideas, anyone? Ha! Talk about a no-brainer. Saturday morning we’re having blueberry pancakes!

The green beans are my favorite skinny kind. I’ll blanch and then sauté some of these in garlic and olive oil. All of the herbs will go well with sautéed green beans, so I’ll play around with them, too.

The chard’s really pretty. I’m thinking about trying it with raisins and pine nuts like in this recipe. And some of it may end up in the week’s fried rice along with a couple of radishes and some squash from the farmers’ market. One of us is seriously anti-carrot, so I don’t put carrots in fried rice. But that’s okay because the other two of us love to snack on raw carrots.

To be frank, it’s hard to get excited about blackberries when you’ve got 2 pints of fresh blueberries lying around. (I ordered an extra from the online store.) So I just froze the blackberries for later. They’ll have their moment – probably as blackberry crumble or just yummy frozen fruit bites.