CSA #5, and how I fared with #4
Aug. 18th, 2011 03:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
taylweaverSo, as you some of you know, I'm in Gaithersburg, MD at the moment on vacation. A good friend picked up Share #5 for me, and we will be splittng it.
Here's what's in the share:
- 2 ears of corn
- 3 mini peppers
- some cherry tomatoes
- 3 tomatoes
- 1 large zucchini
- 1 medium cucumber
- some basil
- 1 head of lettuce
- 2 small eggplants
- 2 carrots
I will probably be getting:
- 2 ears of corn
- some of the mini peppers
- 1 or 2 tomatoes
- half a zucchini
- 1 cucumber
- 1 small eggplant
- 1 carrot
A nice bunch of veggies - and all things I've heard of before, which makes them easier to use. On the other hand, that means I have to put in actual effort if I want to do any experimenting.
Here's what happened to Share #4:
Corn: got boiled and served as part of a Shabbat meal. There was some left over, but most of it got eaten.
Green peppers: one of them got mixed into various egg omelets (I threw some onion into both, and some jalapeno into one of them). The other one ended up coming with me to Gaithersburg, and may or may not get eaten.
Lettuce: was supposed to go into a salad, but the salad never got made. Sadly, this ended up in the trash.
Zucchini: mostly got sauteed with garlic and eaten as a side dish. Some of it went bad before I could get to it
Cucumber: not sure which cucumber I used where... some of this got eaten on its own, and the rest went into a salad with purslane
Cherry tomatoes: got put out as nosh when I had people over Shabbat afternoon. Many but not all of them got eaten. (I'm not a fan of cherry tomatoes, so I let other folks eat them.)
Basil: Got turned into pesto and is now in my freezer. I haven't had the chance to try any of it yet.
Purslane: Got put into a salad that was based on a recipe I found online: purslane leaves, jalapeno, cucumber, tomato (I used heirloom tomato for it), and lemon juice. I was too scared of the jalapeno, and didn't use enough of the hot part of it, so it was hard to tell it was there, but otherwise, I guess it came out okay...
So I guess I didn't do anything exciting with the last share... we'll see what happens with this week's. I bought a vegetable cook book at a farm store on Friday (we went to buy fruits before Shabbat), so maybe it will give me some interesting ideas.
Here's what's in the share:
- 2 ears of corn
- 3 mini peppers
- some cherry tomatoes
- 3 tomatoes
- 1 large zucchini
- 1 medium cucumber
- some basil
- 1 head of lettuce
- 2 small eggplants
- 2 carrots
I will probably be getting:
- 2 ears of corn
- some of the mini peppers
- 1 or 2 tomatoes
- half a zucchini
- 1 cucumber
- 1 small eggplant
- 1 carrot
A nice bunch of veggies - and all things I've heard of before, which makes them easier to use. On the other hand, that means I have to put in actual effort if I want to do any experimenting.
Here's what happened to Share #4:
Corn: got boiled and served as part of a Shabbat meal. There was some left over, but most of it got eaten.
Green peppers: one of them got mixed into various egg omelets (I threw some onion into both, and some jalapeno into one of them). The other one ended up coming with me to Gaithersburg, and may or may not get eaten.
Lettuce: was supposed to go into a salad, but the salad never got made. Sadly, this ended up in the trash.
Zucchini: mostly got sauteed with garlic and eaten as a side dish. Some of it went bad before I could get to it
Cucumber: not sure which cucumber I used where... some of this got eaten on its own, and the rest went into a salad with purslane
Cherry tomatoes: got put out as nosh when I had people over Shabbat afternoon. Many but not all of them got eaten. (I'm not a fan of cherry tomatoes, so I let other folks eat them.)
Basil: Got turned into pesto and is now in my freezer. I haven't had the chance to try any of it yet.
Purslane: Got put into a salad that was based on a recipe I found online: purslane leaves, jalapeno, cucumber, tomato (I used heirloom tomato for it), and lemon juice. I was too scared of the jalapeno, and didn't use enough of the hot part of it, so it was hard to tell it was there, but otherwise, I guess it came out okay...
So I guess I didn't do anything exciting with the last share... we'll see what happens with this week's. I bought a vegetable cook book at a farm store on Friday (we went to buy fruits before Shabbat), so maybe it will give me some interesting ideas.
