Comments | heresluck: CSA* box: salad days

heresluck

CSA* box: salad days

Jun 13, 2006 18:25

And so the adventure begins.

This week's box: easter egg radishes (remarkably sweet for their size), purple scallions, sage, baby bok choi, mustard greens, galisse lettuce, baby spinach, and lots of salad mix.

I am very pleased.

I'm using the mustard greens and some of the spinach to make saag paneer for dinner (since I have about ten pounds of ( Read more... )

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kassrachel June 13 2006, 23:36:37 UTC

Mmmm. Sounds lovely. :-)

We had our first Farm salad of the year on Saturday. Weeny sweet turnips, a couple of lettuces, turnip greens, and arugula. It was so good I couldn't find words for it. I eat storebought lettuce all winter and I forget what a difference there is, you know?

heresluck June 14 2006, 01:06:54 UTC

You're so right about the difference between lettuce that's bred for travel and storage vs. the stuff that's actually meant for, you know, eating.

I'm beginning to think I need a lettuce icon. *g*

Salad! laurashapiro June 13 2006, 23:40:10 UTC

I'm envious; I forgot to get salad greens this week. Oh, and mustard greens, how I adore them. ::drool::

Radishes are great, but I've never had them cooked before. It's odd, since I cook turnips all the time. I wonder if you could make radish soup? Or, hmm, what about pickling some of them?

My own dinner tonight will be roast boneless leg of lamb with garlic and rosemary, fresh peas, and...I don't know yet. I wish I had some new potatoes. Maybe rice pilaf.

Re: Salad! heresluck June 14 2006, 01:09:07 UTC

Well, I don't exactly cook the radishes; I toss them into stir-fry at the last possible moment, so they stay crunchy. They're rather like water chestnuts, but spicier.

I hadn't thought of pickling them; hmmm...

Re: Salad! laurashapiro June 14 2006, 02:29:40 UTC

Oh, that does sound good. Crunchy!

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heresluck June 14 2006, 01:09:54 UTC

Well, if the greens were that tasty, I should think the market's a good deal more than *just* a wallet hazard...

anonymous June 14 2006, 00:40:41 UTC

Roast the extra beets in duck fat. That's what I'm planning.

anonymous June 14 2006, 00:47:40 UTC

Oops, that was me. Stupid lj.

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heresluck June 14 2006, 01:12:39 UTC

As I don't like duck fat, I will probably stick to my usual plan of roasting them *without* duck fat and also of having dinner parties at which I serve my amazing ginger-beet risotto, which is gorgeous and delicious and has made several of my acquaintences reconsider their anti-beet sentiments.

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morgandawn June 14 2006, 04:29:00 UTC

yuuuum. you are such an inspiration food wise. We cheat a bit - instead of a CSA membership, we get a weekly food box delivered (great for us almost shut-ins) from Planet Organics http://www.planetorganics.com You have some selection ability of the foods/fruit that are in season.

heresluck June 14 2006, 14:56:56 UTC

If I'm ever in the Bay Area again, I'll have to take over somebody's kitchen and have a little fannish dinner party. *g*

That Planet Organics thing looks like a lovely option! I'm curious as to how this CSA thing will go; I'm not thrilled about having so little control over quantity, but the grocery store in town carries very little organic produce, and (more surprisingly) very little local produce of any kind, so I'm fairly sure I'll be CSAing it for the forseeable future.