Friday, November 23, 2012

CSA Week 8

Hooray for kohlrabi!  I'm doing a happy jig in my kitchen because this week we received kohlrabi in our CSA share.  YUM!

We also received carrots (which will go in with the kohlrabi), mesclun (which keeps ending up in the compost because we don't get to it before it turns), swiss chard, and cilantro.

Not sure what we'll do with the cilantro yet, but we'll be enjoying kohlrabi and carrots, and swiss chard rigatoni.  Good thing I have one bell pepper left from a previous week!

And if we're on the ball we'll have a salad with the mesclun.  ;)

Friday, November 16, 2012

CSA Week 7

Another round of kale, pac choi, radishes, turnips, as well as broccoli and thyme.  I got smart and separated the radishes from their greens.  A couple of the kale ribs came with bugs (a different variation of squash bugs?) so I set it to soak in vinegar water to see if it helped loosen any of the unwanted, umm, protein so they could be washed away.  They were tenacious little buggers so the affected parts were tossed.

I made a radish green soup that I added some barley to on a whim.  None of us have tasted it yet...I'm thinking of adding more to it for a heartier soup/stew.

We revisited one of the pasta recipes from Week 4 for the kale.  I'm noticing a recurring theme of greens and pasta...yum!

The pac choi leaves were used in a fish packet recipe that we won't be making again.  I think I ended up improvising it too much.  The stems are slated for a pork fried rice recipe.

We found a pork chop recipe for the radishes...it was okay, but it won't be made again in our household.  The turnips, broccoli, and thyme are still in the crisper.

Friday, November 9, 2012

CSA Week 6

This week we had the opportunity to enjoy radishes, carrots, mesclun, swiss chard, and sweet potatoes.  Some beets were thrown in as well.  It was an interesting week and nothing was touched after it had been loaded into the fridge until over a week later.  Surprisingly, the mesclun was still hunky-dory (but it didn't last a second week of no use); the radishes, not so much.  The beet greens were unsalvageable as well.

I used the swiss chard in a rigatoni that received high marks from all.  I made it for lunch, and they asked for it for dinner as well!  The carrots, beets, and sweet potatoes are still in the crisper.

Friday, November 2, 2012

CSA Week 5

Turnips, baby carrots, a small head of lettuce, collards, bell peppers, and cilantro comprised this week's assortment.  At the time we hadn't utilized quite all of the greens from previous weeks (I post a couple weeks after the fact) so I asked if I could swap the collards for a butternut squash.  They kindly obliged!

The turnips, butternut squash, and carrots (along with the sweet potatoes and the rest of the kale from last week) were utilized in a glorious meal called Stamppot.  I used brautwurst rather than rookwurst.  It is beyond my understanding why my husband and my middle child do not like this meal.

And we actually had salad with the lettuce.  It took me too long to get to the computer so I don't remember what meal it was with.  The cilantro was used in a pork recipe in Week 7.