You know you need serious help when you take 100 pictures of your CSA box, just to get the one you want to post. Thank goodness for digital photography. You can click away to your heart’s content and delete like mad leaving only the good ones.
Today’s goodness!
Sandy Spring CSA Week 20
The list:
1 Bag Green Okra (which I swapped for more collard greens)
1 Bag Baby Eggplants
1 Bag Red Roma Tomatoes
1 Bag Garlic
1 Bunch Collards
1 Head Bok Choy
1 Bunch Dinosaur Kale
1 Head Green Leaf Lettuce
1 Bunch Green Komatsuna
2 Leeks
What is komatsuna, you ask? One of those amazing vegetables you would only get in a CSA box, and it really is a great vegetable. Very versatile. Very good for you. I added some chopped leaves to chicken soup I heated up for dinner tonight. The rest will find their way into a stir fry with that humongous bok choy. I have to say, these three in the picture below are items I never would be buying in a store.
komatsuna, bok choy and leeks
Tomorrow I will break out the crock pot again and make all those lovely collards with Italian sausage and some of my tomato sauce. They will grace the table a few times this weekend. I love collards with pork and tomatoes, and a little garlic.
Yikes! Another four pounds of Roma tomatoes. I thought tomato season was over. Apparently not in PA, it isn’t. So, one more round of blanching and freezing. I should never have to buy tomatoes this winter. The freezer will be full of them. And, baby eggplant. How cute. And, garlic. More garlic to roast and spread on bread.
This is such a great basket of goodies this week. So many of my favorites. Who knows what I will cook?
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I am finding myself dissatisfied with the pics my camera takes….think it might be time to get a new camera!
Your picture is awesome. We had our last summer pickup this week, and are moving into the fall season next week.
I can’t wait to see what you cook with it all.
Well, today I cooked all the collards in the crock pot with the white parts of a bok choy. In garlic, balsamic and homemade smoked bacon.
South meets Asian. And, it was awesome. With sweet Italian sausage from a local farmer. Berkshire hogs. Amazing pork.
I agree about cameras. I used hubby’s Coolpix occasionally, and it wasn’t that great. I had a real old SLR from forty years ago that I loved. And it bit the dust.
I splurged for our anniversary in 2011 and bought a Nikon D90. It rocks. I have a wide angle lens and a zoom lens. With the quality of the pics, I can crop them way down and still maintain clarity.
Hopefully, this camera will last me for decades.
Never heard of komatsuma. Thanks for enlightening me! You always seem to get such interesting fruits and veggies in your share…
Thanks for linking up!