CSA Share Week 7 & 8

 

PLGCSA Week 7
Lettuce Head

Swiss Chard
Garlic
Basil
Peas
Dill

Fruit share:
More blueberries...I wanted raspberries. But then I got pretty addicted to frozen blueberries in my oatmeal and fresh blueberries in my ice cream, so...I guess it was a success.

PLGCSA Week 8
Salad greens
Garlic
Zucchini
Parsley
Basil
1 (!!!) Zucchini blossom, no idea what to do with just one, I guess it will be a tester ::shrug::
Cabbage—but I didn't take it after the failure I had with the previous week's cabbage (it's still in my fridge, disappointing me)

Fruit share:
Plums & Apricots


I tried to make Stuffed Cabbage on Monday night—two mistakes I made: I waited too late into the night to start cooking and the cabbage wasn't cooked long enough to "stuff."

I was pretty, meh, about last week's share. I'm more excited about this week. Tonight I'm making a zucchini fritatta (which won't require standing in my excessively hot kitchen for too long)! And I now have a game plan with my salad greens/lettuce—I eat it on the first night, so that it won't fall victim to disintegration, discoloration, or freezing. You can bring frozen lettuce back to life, but defrosted salad greens are questionable. FYI: my fridge sucks.

Green.

Everything will be vibrantly green this week. I already kicked it off with last week's garlic scapes, by canning some garlic scape pesto (7 garlic scapes, handful of walnuts, 2 oz. of CSA cheese, about 1 cup of EVOO, salt and pepper). Shrimp, garlic scape pesto, and whole wheat pasta is pretty addictive—which is the reason why my lunch today was sans shrimp. Can't wait to defrost some more shrimp and start dipping.   PLG CSA Week 5  Lettuce Heads Salad Greens Peas Scallions Kale Swiss Chard Basil Turnips  My plan for this week's share: kale chips, roasted turnips (with honey like my mama does), basil + pea pesto (not sure about this, maybe mint would be better), lots o' salad—hmm, maybe roasted turnips with salad greens, and pasta/cous cous/quinoa with swiss chard! Sounds like a plan.  Photos of last week's meals to come later . . . been a little lazy about posting photos and recipes. My laptop is too old to be running more than one program at a time, which really puts a damper on uploading photos while watching Hulu—it's just not possible.