It’s CSA Wednesday again! I ran home during the day to pick up the share because I had a softball game after work, and boy, is it hot out. Unfortunately the hot weather has not been good for the crops, and our share this week was the smallest that we’ve had so far. I’m not too concerned because we still have stuff left from last week, plus Josh is traveling so I haven’t been eating our veggies (otherwise he might get jealous). Our share contents this week included:
Lettuce – 1 head green leaf
Radishes – 4 each
Squash – 1lb
Onions – 4 each
Peas – 1/2 lb
Fava Beans – 1lb each
The peas and the beans will be interesting to cook with, since we don’t eat too much of either, but I’m really interested to taste freshly shelled peas/beans.
Peas, white and red onions, green leaf lettuce, squash, radishes, fava beans
Our fruit share also included less fruit, though we did get a strawberry rhubarb jam, which should be interesting:
Cherries – 1 quart
Jam – 1 pint
Juice – 1 pint
Cherries, strawberry rhubarb jam, blackcurrant apple juice
A new juice this week as well, blackcurrant apple this time. Still sad that it’s the smaller bottle, since the first week was more than double the size. The cherries this week are a different variety from the last two weeks, and hopefully they’ll be a bit sweeter. Still more recipes to come!
Tags: Cherries, Fava Beans, Jam, Juice, Lettuce, Onions, Peas, Radishes, Squash
Loving these posts. Are you finding it hard to cook so much at home instead of ordering in?
It depends on the day. Some days I’m all about the cooking, and some days it takes every ounce of will power not to order in Papa John’s :-p The best motivation though is that vegetables only have a certain shelf life, and I don’t like to waste food so I want to make sure we eat everything while it’s still fresh. We’re actually doing pretty well – we’ve been cooking at least four nights a week, and it’s usually just on weekends that we go out to eat or order in. It has actually been harder to keep up with the cooking posts than it is to do the cooking! I’m trying to mix in restaurant reviews with the recipes so that we still have variety on the blog, although a lot of these restaurant excursions actually took place a few weeks/months ago.