Today’s haul was kale (two bunches), turnips, a pepper, new potatoes (!), mesclun, and a whole pound of eggplant. There were actually tomatoes available, but they were pretty well gone by, so I opted for the eggplant instead. I don’t really have any interesting to report from last week. We had company for a good […]

This week’s haul was lettuce, frisee, green peppers, scallions, shell peas, baby bok choy, Swiss chard, and turnips. I also grabbed eggs, and some locally made jack cheese. The shell peas are already shelled, and in a bowl, available for snacking. The lettuce, frisee, and some of the baby bok choy are in the gigantic

So far, we’ve enjoyed some great salad; I love their mesclun mix. It’s easily the best lettuce mix I’ve ever tasted. It’s just the right amount of peppery mixed with the green. One quart of the berries is already curing in the freezer (started on a cookie sheet for hopefully ease of separation down the

It’s been a busy week, so the CSA post is a bit late. First, to round out last week: The roasted radishes and turnips were wonderful. Roasting totally changed the flavor of the radishes, and the turnips were as good as I’d hoped they’d be. Since the roasting didn’t use the greens, I saved those

Week two’s haul was more of the lettuce (though no mesclun), Swiss chard and salad turnips, as well as kale, basil, and a lovely peony. We rounded out the week one bounty using a recipe for Penne with Chard and Sausage from Andrea Chesman’s Serving Up the Harvest. That came out pretty well, though probably