Vegetables!
Jul. 11th, 2008 11:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sierciaThird week of the CSA today. I love my farmer's markey. Today there was a guy with raw honey (yum), the goat cheese lady, the bakeries and there were reports of someone selling eggs who'd sold out by the time I got there. There was also a local coffee shop selling iced coffee, which about made the entire trip completely perfect, in my mind.
Got honey, a snackie for the afternoon and a loaf of some cheese bread that made some of the most divine toast I've ever ever eaten this evening for my dinner.
Our box this week was more greens, a couple heads of lettuce, a bulb of fennel, two HUGE bunches of beets, 3 each of zucchini and yellow squash, some arugula. They hade a giant box of basil, and I asked if there was basil in my box this week, and they said "There can be!" and dumped a giant bunch in. Awesome. I'm making pesto iffen I can find pine nuts tomorrow!
When I got home tonight, I tool all the greens left from the last box, cleaned them, blanched them and put them into the freezer to keep for later in the season. I think that's going to be my strategy, at least for right now - anything e don't eat in the preceding week gets frozen when the new box arrives, so that we don't end up wasting as much as we did last yea - even though frozen is not as good as fresh, it's a damn sight better than throwing it away.
I saved the last bit of the Swiss Chard for my dinner, though - sauteed a clove a garlic and the chard in a little oil, then at the end tossed in some sliced up salami. Added a few eggs, dropped in the last of my garlicky goat cheese and then popped it under the broiler to brown. With a couple slices of cheese bread toast, I had myself a fantastic dinner. Awesomeness.
I think on Sunday, I'm going to try and pickle this week's beet assortment, but we'll see if there's demand for eating beets this week before I do it.
Got honey, a snackie for the afternoon and a loaf of some cheese bread that made some of the most divine toast I've ever ever eaten this evening for my dinner.
Our box this week was more greens, a couple heads of lettuce, a bulb of fennel, two HUGE bunches of beets, 3 each of zucchini and yellow squash, some arugula. They hade a giant box of basil, and I asked if there was basil in my box this week, and they said "There can be!" and dumped a giant bunch in. Awesome. I'm making pesto iffen I can find pine nuts tomorrow!
When I got home tonight, I tool all the greens left from the last box, cleaned them, blanched them and put them into the freezer to keep for later in the season. I think that's going to be my strategy, at least for right now - anything e don't eat in the preceding week gets frozen when the new box arrives, so that we don't end up wasting as much as we did last yea - even though frozen is not as good as fresh, it's a damn sight better than throwing it away.
I saved the last bit of the Swiss Chard for my dinner, though - sauteed a clove a garlic and the chard in a little oil, then at the end tossed in some sliced up salami. Added a few eggs, dropped in the last of my garlicky goat cheese and then popped it under the broiler to brown. With a couple slices of cheese bread toast, I had myself a fantastic dinner. Awesomeness.
I think on Sunday, I'm going to try and pickle this week's beet assortment, but we'll see if there's demand for eating beets this week before I do it.