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. So far, I’ve made tortilla soup into which I snuck some of the arugula (I’ll post the recipe, which was adapted from a couple in the new Gourmet cookbooks–it was delicious and eaten by all, including picky short people); lovely green salads, of course; great saag with tofu instead of paneer from this Chow recipe; rapini (that’s the rabe) sautéed with good olive oil, a fair bit of garlic and salt, and a sprinkling of pepperoncini. All: divine. Next up: Alana’s incredible spring turnip soup (Alana’s, I should say, by way of Alice Waters) and either kale pizza (my fave) or kale salad (which I love and the kids will eat.) This year, I am making a concerted effort to really consume all that I bring home; since we’re chickenless at the moment (lots of foxy carnage last summer) it’s up to us to try to eat all this good produce. This means that between the arugula I brought home and what I have to cut in my own garden, I have to make and freeze some arugula pesto, which I’ve never tried, so I can use it all up. I’ll be sure to share a recipe if I find one I like; or, as I am prone to doing, I may just vamp up my own. We’ll see.
{Curious to see how this year’s bounty stacks up against the same farm’s output two years ago? Read about Week 1, 2008, here. And for even more nostalgia, read about Week 1, 2007, at a neighboring farm, here.}
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