CSA Veggies

Well, they are coming in.  The vegetables are definitely coming in.  This week we got:

• Kohlrabi
• Spinach
• Loose lettuce greens
• Romaine lettuce
• Swiss chard
• Kale
• Parsley
• Radishes

And I actually still have some bok choy and parsley (it's so yummy, but very potent tasting) from last week.  I am going to the cottage this week for my annual vacation with my family and will take my greens, but I honestly can't see that we will eat this much, even as a group of 9, so I'm blanching my kale and chard and freezing it for the winter.

In my garden the lettuce is ready to be picked, as is the cilantro and the pea pods.  That's a lot of food, all at once, and we're not even in tomato season!  This week to use up my chard & kale, I put them in scrambled eggs and made a sweet & sour soup with the kale, and I ate a lot of salad.  Also, I did a stir fry with a sesame seed sauce that I whipped up.  I've really been cooking a lot, and often outside my comfort zone.  It's a learning process.

(Photo credit: Goebelski's family blog.  They got the same Trillium Haven Farm produce, so I figured it would be redundant to snap a photo of mine.  Plus, I'd already started cutting some of it up to blanch.)

tags: garden produce  csa  community sponsored agriculture  cooking  greens