What is CSA? It is an acronym for Community Supported Agriculture. At our house, we "subscribe" to two boxes of produce (often called a farm share) that we get once a week: a mix of vegetables and fruit from Eatwell Farm and additional fruit from Frog Hollow Farm. We are lucky enough to be able to host delivery sites for both at our house, so 15-35 different people swing by to pickup their produce from our breezeway every week.
This season both farms are taking new members, you can find out more from Eatwell and Frog Hollow.
Week of March 18, 2012 - Oh Boy, Oh Boy! I hope we get a cabbage this week! Both the San Francisco Chronicle are featuring it in their recipes. It's not very often I hope for that.
Week of March 4, 2012 - Finally, spring is here! I know it, because there is green garlic in the box, and fennel and celery root. The peas growing on the deck are flowering, and I finally took the cold frame off the arugula.
In the Garden:
- arugula - we have to eat it fast, because there is a gopher living in my raised bed, and he's eating it too. I can't believe it. Please send advice if you have any.
- lemons - so many, we need to make lemonade!
This week's Eatwell Box:
- oranges - lunches, snacks, juice, sorbet?
- parsley - I'll put it on everything, it's always good for that.
- lemons - salad dressing, of course.
- lettuce - salad!
- apples - snacks, lunches, breakfast
- spinach - sauté it up and serve with pasta
- stir fry mix - stir fry?
- green garlic - must find something special and springy for this...
- fennel - I've been waiting for it, to make The Kitchen's Couscous with Chickpeas, Fennel and Citrus.
- celery root - there is a great wild rice and celeriac chowder I made last year...but I might get lazy and throw it in the crockpot with the lamb.
- red cabbage - I never know what to do with these...except grate them over lettuce for salad.
Still in the Fridge:
- leeks - Used one with the mystery green (cabbage?) I pulled from the garden on Sunday, one with some chard...
- turnips - Eatwell individual turnip gratin recipe? Like anyone in my house will eat that....
- green cabbage - Stir fry? Soup? With bacon?
- lamb - put it in the crockpot
- tofu - stir fry? Miso sesame winter squash again, from 101 Cookbooks
Week of January 29, 2012 - Lot's of wintery greens and squash again this week, I'm looking for new ways to use it up, let me know if you have a good one.
Still in the fridge:
- Salad
- Leeks
- Sweet Potatoes (just two)
- Pumpkin (half)
- Butternut (two small ones)
From Eatwell:
- Dill
- Oranges - good for breakfast, as juice and in smoothies
- Lemons - use instead of vinegar in salad dressing
- Lettuce - I'll clean it and store it in the fridge, ready to eat
- Stir Fry Mix - stir fry with some chicken, in a recipe from a new cookbook I got for Christmas, Stir-Frying to the Sky's Edge.
- Broccoli - I'll try to replicate my favorite soup, from a few years back at La Boulange in Cole Valley
- Romanesco - can go in the soup, too
- Mixed Mustard Greens - not sure....maybe a side vegetable?
- Baby Bok Choi - use a recipe in the stir fry book for a side veg
- Red Cabbage - ugh. All I know to do with this is grate it with carrots over salad
- Apples - snacks!
- Squash - maybe there's something new on 101 Cookbooks for this
In the Garden:
- Brussels Sprouts - My son and I saved them from a visiting gopher. We'll cook them with bacon and toss it with pasta.
Here are last year's CSA notes.
