Adventures with CSA: Week 3 (Summer 2015)

This week's share includes collard greens, lettuce, napa cabbage, broccoli, red scallions, snow peas, cucumber, and parsley.

Grilled Chicken Thai Salad (Napa cabbage, some of the red scallions, leftover cilantro I bought for the tacos I made last week)

PF Chang's Knock Off Mongolian Beef (some of the red scallions, and I will serve it with steamed broccoli on the side)

Tabbouleh (Rest of the red scallions, leftover tomatoes I bought last week, parsley, cucumber. Also can serve over lettuce.

Black Eyes Pea Cakes with Collard Greens (collard greens, parsley)

The snow peas, I may end up throwing into a salad or just eating raw with some hummus. I like sugar snaps that way too.

Adventures with CSA: Week Two (Summer 2015)

This week's share included lettuce, spinach, kale, kohlrabi, green onions, garlic scapes, parsley, and strawberries.

Quinoa Salad with Kale and Feta (Kale, possibly some of the green onion)

Baked kohlrabi fries (Kohlrabi-I plan to make the spiced ones and serve them with burgers. They sounds amazing!)

The spinach and the parsley will probably go into a big pot of tortellini soup, since I have two big bags of tortellini in the freezer.

The garlic scapes I may make pesto with, my basil plants are producing pretty well and could probably use to be cut back.

The lettuce will be used for salads, wraps, and burgers + sandwiches.

I will probably clean and slice the strawberries for eating on cereals, etc. Those will probably go fast! :)

Adventures with CSA: Week One (Summer 2015)

Our very first CSA share is here!!! This is our first experience with doing this, and I am super excited!

For those folks who might not know, CSA stands for 'community-supported agriculture.' Basically, you contribute a fee to a local farm, and in return you get a share in their harvest during the season. Our CSA is through Edible Earth Farm in Tionesta, PA. We get our deliveries weekly and purchased a small share, although as I am beginning to understand, it's not actually small. Here's week one's haul:

So one of the challenges (which I accept, btw) of a CSA is that it requires a little more meal planning than I generally engage in, being that I work full time and then some and am generally running around like a chicken with my head cut off most of the time. So here's some of the recipes I am planning to make with our first week's bounty, which came last night:

Rustic Indian Lentils with Collard Greens (collard greens)
Radiant Bok Choy (bok choy)
Mushroom and Garlic Scape Quiche (garlic scapes--I may also throw some of the spinach in this)
Cheeseburger Quiche (this recipe comes from my mother and is a favorite of our gaming group; green onions)
Salad (Lettuce and spinach if there's any left)

I am looking forward to my weekly culinary adventures! :)