Getting towards the end of the fall CSA. We will be going through fresh veggie withdrawal, and this CSA does not start up again until May. It was rainy and muddy picking up our box, but there were twelve wonderful additions to the fridge.
We received:
Red Romaine Lettuce
2 baby bok choi
1 large leek (plus the extra one that I got when I swapped the lacinato kale)
a bag of green and red mustard greens
a bag of mixed cooking greens
butternut squash
a bag of garlic
a bag of carrots
a bag of Beauregard sweet potatoes
purple topped turnips
1 large rutabaga
All organic, and this week’s box was quite a bit different than last week, which is a good thing. I like the variety.
I am making sauerkraut again with last week’s cabbage, and will be making “pumpkin” bread using two of the squashes that I have been saving. I find butternut squash works great in many zucchini or pumpkin bread recipes. Looks like a stir fry later in the week as well. I did find organic chicken thighs at the natural foods store yesterday, and have enough other stuff in the pantry to make chicken chow mein and use up bok choy and Napa cabbage from past weeks.
We are definitely eating better from this CSA than we did in the past, and I appreciate getting good veggies since the stink bugs have been limiting what I harvested from our garden. Can’t wait until we eliminate those pests from our environment. I heard they may have found a natural predator and are studying it. It can’t come fast enough for us.
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