What's in your CSA this week? And what are you making? - Page 3

[artemis33]

Ours is just getting going - this was our 3rd week and we had a really cold early spring.

basil
dill
kale
sugar snap peas
lettuce
broccolini (? a broc/cauli cross I think)
flowers
1/2 doz eggs
and I still have a big bunch of bok choi left over from last week I need to use up!

[dillonandmarasmom]

subbing...I just started a CSA (backyard/frontyard based) with 2 friends for our community. We are currrently growing squashes of all kinds, melons, lettuces, snap peas, corn, many, many varieties of tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplant, peppers, herbs, onions, potatoes, leeks, and many, many native flowers.

So excited to start sharing!!

[tifpaul]

Originally Posted by Youngfrankenstein

What do I do with the swiss chard?!!?

The Joy of Cooking has a recipe for "chard tart" which is easy, full of chard and tasty. It's one of the few recipes my husband is confident making . . . he's made three of them for me since our baby came - a month ago!

[SophieAnn]

Subbing.

Our first CSA pickup is tomorrow. I'm expecting greens. Lotsa greens.

[Elecampane]

Ooh, subbing.

My second delivery is tomorrow.

last week we had a quart of strawberries, which I froze (since our own crop is also in and we are inundated).
1 bunch of garlic scapes - scape and spinach frittata
4 bunches of leaf lettuce - salad (I still have some; we don't eat that much salad!)

[Raene]

This week we got:

-strawberries
-chard
-kale
-collards
-bok choy
-mustard greens
-kohlrabi
-various lettuces
-endive

I think I'm forgetting something. Anyway, anyone have a great (vegan) recipe for kohlrabi? I don't know what to do with it.

[tifpaul]

I also need kohlrabi recipes of any kind. Well, ones that taste good, anyways.

[dillonandmarasmom]

Originally Posted by Youngfrankenstein

What do I do with the swiss chard?!!?

I love chard wilted (sauteed) in butter, garlic and mushrooms. If you eat meat, you could also do really crispy bacon pieces for flavor. Soooo yummy! We sautee the stems, too.

[dillonandmarasmom]

Originally Posted by tifpaul

I also need kohlrabi recipes of any kind. Well, ones that taste good, anyways.

http://www.cookitsimply.com/category-0020-02j71.html

If you google, there are several sites that have lists of recipes just for kohlrabi. Enjoy!:
ETA: On the sidebar, I noticed a vegan recipes tab.

[SophieAnn]

1st pickup was last night. : We got:

1 bunch Bok Choy - stir fry
1/2 lb. Broccoli - stir fry
1 bunch Tat Soi - Browned Butter Pasta with Tatsoi
http://backyardfarming.blogspot.com/...sa-week-2.html
1/2 lb. Kamatsuna, Kale & Mizuna Combo - Kale chips and add to soup
1/2 lb. Spinach - salad
8 Radishes - we love eating them raw, sometimes dipped in ranch

We pick our own, not prepacked. There's a big chalkboard that says what we get each week, and how much we get for a small share or a large share. They have scales for us to use for the things that are by weight. We can take less than the allotment of course. Leftovers are donated to local shelters/food bank.

Photo here, if the link works:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Dh4gU2O-cK...h/IMG_1221.JPG

Recipe for sweet dressing (yummy on spinach)
1 part real mayonaise
2 parts maple syrup
4 parts neutral flavoured salad oil

[BetsyS]

We like kohlrabi braised (stir fry in a bit of oil and garlic until the kohlrabi gets a little color on it, then add oh, 1/2 inch of water or so. Cover and cook until tender.)

We like tat soi, too. To us, it tastes like a good cross between spinach and mustard. I like it stir fried in olive oil and garlic. Really good with all of the garlicky pan juices poured over polenta. Yum.

[Down2Earth]

Pick up was yesterday and we got to tour the farm. So cool!

1 qt strawberries, 1 qt sugar snap peas, lettuce, broccoli, green onions, cucumbers.

We are going to do a stir fry with peas, onions, broccoli and cukes.

[Mamatoto2]

This past week we got LOTS of lettuce, spinach, zucchini and yellow summer squash, herbs, arugula, bok choi, radishes, and probably other things that I'm forgetting. Last night I made this pasta with arugula, asparagus, and bacon (which was yum-I used org. brown rice spaghetti FWIW) Tonight, I'm trying an arugula salad with pears, roasted grapes, and a roasted shallot dressing along with Japanese Zucchini and Onions and lots of sauteed spinach to go with some ribs that I'll be glazing with balsamic vinegar and a strawberry/raspberry/balsamic preserves that I made last week with the strawberries that we picked. I LOVE CSA season-new box tomorrow!

[almadianna]

corn!!! i looove the local corn... but I am sad because of the drought this is the last week of it.

[Elecampane]

Mine was pretty much the same this week as last week
*about 8 bunches of leaf lettuce
*2 quarts strawberries
*1 bunch parsley
*1 bunch garlic scapes

I gave away a lot of the lettuce. My DH is out of town so I haven't been cooking just for me and DD, and don't really have time to prepare an elaborate salad when it's just me. I froze the strawberries for later use. Parsley I used in a quinoa-black bean-avocado salad. Garlic scapes are slated for pesto.

I love this thread. It's so fun to see the variation in what folks are getting and doing with their CSA produce!

[dflanag2]

I'm glad to be here, too! This is our first CSA and we've been picking up for 3 weeks now. This week we have

bok choi
Chinese cabbage
a small head of cauliflower (what should I do with it other than steam it?)
garlic scapes (pesto and various recipes)
baby salad greens (a very nice salad)
Thai and Italian basil (pizza topping, frittata topping)
oregano (pizza topping, may add the rest to a soup)
lavendar (put it out to smell pretty in the bathroom )
also our CSA has been giving out seedlings they didn't end up planting. So far I have planted a parsley, 2 tomato plants, some sort of hot pepper, ground cherries, basil, oregano, and rosemary.

The nice thing about the lettuce is that it keeps pretty well if you put it in a bowl with the bottom part in a little water. At least this is working for me b/c my greens still have roots attached! I also have an herb/asparagus keeper from Pampered Chef that is working pretty well.

I want to get up to speed on freezing things we aren't going to use right away (if they can be frozen, of course). My freezer is tiny, though. Maybe I should move the new refrigerator/freezer higher on the priority list!

Thanks for all the recipe ideas. I think I am going to the garlic scape/mushroom/bacon/greens stirfry tonight.

[tifpaul]

Our delivery was similar this week also.

My triumph was making two batches of pesto - one with cilantro and one with basil, and freezing them. Typically I don't do it in time and then the basil gets black and wilted - such a waste!

[jessicafairy]

Our 4th week and we got more lettuce, kale, kohlrabi, salad mix, strawberries and broccoli and carrots!

I can't decide if I want to roast the carrots or just steam them. I want to cook them simply so I can bring out the fresh carroty goodness!

I need kale recipes for my anti-green eaters!

[williamsmommy2002]

We got:

peaches
nectarines
apricots
pluots
sugar baby watermelon
green beans
lettuce(red and green leaf)
potatoes
pattypan and yellow squash
red cabbage
carrots
basil
cherry tomatoes

We will be eating a lot of salads. Tonight i'm making pasta and cooking artichokes from last week's box. I'm also making some soup to freeze today.

[beanma]

I'm making PESTO today! Yum! We're getting basil, tomatoes, squash & zucchini, elephant garlic, and corn lately, also some green beans. The corn is already gone. Yummy corn on the cob. The basil I shall dispatch today. Right now I'm just about finishing up the tomatoes with a BBT (bacon, basil and tomato) on olive bread. .