One of the things I like best about having a CSA is that I barely have to grocery shop. Most of our starches and dairy I order monthly in bulk. The pantry items and vegetables I supplement with fruit and cheese from the natural food store and I’m pretty much good to go.
Lots of greens to start out, but it gets more colorful:
Some recipe suggestions to use these items:
- Tempeh Lettuce Wraps would work with lettuce or with chard leaves
- Greek Salad is my favorite way to use cucumbers
- Raw Red Cabbage Slaw or Warm Red Cabbage Salad — or both!
- This Burgundy Bean Bowl would work with wax beans, too. It also uses lettuce.
- French Yogurt Cake would go so nicely with those strawberries…
It looks like I haven’t posted a quick pasta dish that I make all the time with summer squash, so I’ll work on getting that on the site. Another recipe I make often but don’t have blog-ready is an easy sesame noodle dish that those cucumbers would suit quite nicely. Off to the kitchen!
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I like the new CSA picture setup a lot better. And I am chuffed to realize that if I had been paying attention to your CSA posts instead of skimming I would have recognized mizuna and tatsoi when they appeared in the walk-in.
Thanks! I think the individual ones started when I was too lazy to change lenses. I asked the hubby which he preferred and he voted fewer photos plus labels. At this point it’s sort of a bi-weekly photo project for me — before the daily kitchen project starts to use them up.
Haha! I thought about making one item a “name this veggie,” and maybe I should. ;p
Labels are A++, the number of photos matter less to me than the ease of immediate identification. I do think that in general the smaller things like pea shoots should get a close-up, even though I know that one already and don’t need it 😛
So lovely! Summer squash in early June, blows my zone 4 garden mind.
You should have seen my childhood friend and I picking strawberries in February, giggling in the 70-degree weather. I’m not sure my mind has quite wrapped around it yet, either!