being content with who and what I am, blog-wise, & CSA update

I don't know what it is about me and blogs but I definitely stall out thinking about something to say. Other people's blogs seem so much more interesting - chickens, sheep, goats, travel!! However, when I dial down my expectations a bit, I realize that things happen around here every day. They may not be real exciting, but they do happen, so I'm going to quit trying to be the next PW and just try to be myself, whoever the hell that is.

So, here's a pic of last Thursday's CSA. Kinda more of the same from previous weeks. I've eaten a few of the tomatoes, one of them in a big juicy BAT (Bacon Avocado Tomato) that I had for breakfast on Monday morning. It was great.

Tonite I'm making a pasta salad with some of the zukes. It gets tough to know what to do with all the squash. I troll several food blogs looking for ideas and actually tried making zucchini crisp, but it was... weird. I don't think I took a pic of it. It wasn't too bad straight out of the oven, but cold it was very strange. It went in the trash.


The lettuce and chard went next door to people who actually like that stuff. Actually, I like lettuce but it doesn't like me. Chard has been mostly unsuccessful for me in the various things I've tried it in, so I'm giving up on it for the time being.

My own tomatoes are coming along but more slowly than last year.

This is about what I'm getting each week. The Sweet 100s are the best tasting, as usual. The grape cluster (not sure if that's the right name) are a bust. They're so tiny that I guess they have about a 2-hour picking window and I keep missing it. Won't do those again. Also have some gourds that are doing ok. Lost the tag but I think they're the gourds you can dry and then paint. Guess I'll find out in due time.

more CSA goodness - week 7

Picked up week 7 of the CSA yesterday and was thrilled to see less lettuce and more stuff I like!

This was the crate as it looked when I got it home. Everything is lifeless and dusty and not real appetizing, at least to me. Cleaning and trimming makes a big diff as you can see...

There were several radishes but I gave them to another woman who was picking up her box at the same time. Just can't find a use for radishes that I enjoy. My mom used to eat them sliced thin on buttered white bread with a light sprinkle of salt, but several things about that don't sound good to me, so that's out.

The strawberries will get cut up and slightly sweetened to eat on cereal, but I'm not real sure what I'll do with the blackberries. I ate a few this morning stirred into some yogurt, but feel like they deserve something more exciting. Maybe I should freeze them and wait till I have a couple week's worth to make a small cobbler...

CSA week 1 4/15/10

Picked up our first CSA crate. I was pretty excited to see what was in it since we've never done this before. Another woman was picking up her crate also, so we chatted for a minute. The main thing that struck me was how dirty it all was. I didn't expect it to be all cleaned up like from Save Mart, but I guess I expected it to be washed off a bit more. I headed straight home with it since the day was warm and I didn't want it to wilt in the car all day.



This week got 3 kinds of lettuce, a bag of spinach (DH will love that), a few carrots, parsnips and radishes, two artichokes, 2 spring garlic, and some fresh thyme. I'm sort of embarrassed to admit that I've never bought fresh herbs before, so using the thyme will be a new experience.

The next night we steamed one of the chokes and roasted the parsnips and carrots with some potatoes. I love roasted veggies and the parsnips were quite sweet, but the carrots seemed no better or worse than the ones from the grocery.

It's been over a week and we haven't done much with the lettuce. I guess I'll take a head to work to give away and pile a bunch on our sandwiches. Just not interested in salads at the moment. Actually ever since I read that lettuce is on the no-no diverticulitis list, it hasn't sounded good to me.

So I'd score this first CSA crate as a 6 out of 10. They skipped this past week cause it's been so wet, so the next one will be the 29th.