CSA

Yesterday’s haul wasn’t quite as mind-bending as last week’s, but maybe that’s because there were no strawberries. Even so, a week of excellent meals await:
2 gorgeous heads of leaf lettuce
2 giant bundles of collard greens
2 more bunches of those sweet, succulent spring turnips
a pound of glossy, toothsome spinach
2/3 of a pound each of crisp snap [...]

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Dark greens, mostly meant for cooking, are maybe my favorite vegetables of all. Kale, arugula, and chard are the top of my personal hit parade, but I love turnip and beet greens, too. Having reaped a ridiculous bounty of all of these this week, I’ve had to figure out how to use them up.
Salad, of [...]

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This week’s haul from the CSA (the first week!) was incredible, but not surprising given the perfect weather we’ve had for the last month. I brought home:

1 pound each of arugula, spinach and salad greens
2 bunches each of kale, broccoli rabe and spring turnips
2 pints of amazing strawberries

Not bad for the last week of May. [...]

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It’s back.

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After the bright red of last week’s gorgeous beets, this week’s haul is all about green: zucchini, kale, field lettuce, parsley and, just for variety, summer squash, too. To top it off, the first onions of the summer, their enormous green leaves still trailing.
Photo will be up shortly, as well as a report [...]

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Summer in my family means something special: my husband cooks. The rest of the year, his culinary efforts are confined to pasta and the occasional quesadilla, though he does make incredible cappucino and espresso, thanks to this (yes, a gift from me. Highly recommended if you’re in the market for a high [...]

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The haul was similar to last week’s, though the lettuces and arugula have matured and so I came home with two large bunches of the latter and two different heads of the former, one red leaf, one bibb. The radishes are the long and sharp ones, again, delicious either as is or in salad. [...]

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This week’s loot included 2 bunches of bok choy (right there, in the foreground;) 2 bunches of spring turnips, tiny, almost tranlucent ivory; 2 bunches of brilliant radishes; a pound of mixed lettuces, red and every green imaginable; and the treasure (as far as this arugulamaniac is concerned,) half a pound of baby arugula.
Now–how to [...]

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Not much progress at the farmer’s market in Lenox this Friday, though there were oodles of plants to buy. I was waiting, though, because I knew I’d find some treasures at the plant sale at this year’s CSA farm, The Farm at Miller’s Crossing, in Hudson. And I did–in particular, some chile plants [...]

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