Aug 25, 2019

Menu: Week of 08/25/19

This Week's CSA box contained:

Herbs: a bunch each of flowering dill, sage, purple shiso, thyme, purslane and celery leaf - also known as soup celery - the top item in the image above of layer one of the treasures in my CSA box. It is basically a celery plant that is grown for the sake of its leaves rather than its stalks.

Greens: a bunch/head each of red leaf lettuce, rainbow chard, red Russian kale and a copious amount of beet greens.

Alliums: a head of new garlic and 3 white onions.

Vegetables: 2 ears of corn, 1 eggplant, 1 cucumber, 1 very large zucchini, 2 fist sized new potatoes, 3 large beefsteak tomatoes, an assortment of jalapeno and serrano peppers which I am already overloaded with and need to do something about (probably freezing for the winter; easy enough to do), 3 huge red beets, 1 large green pepper, 4 patty pan squash (a vegetable which I confess intimidates me) and a beautiful bunch of French breakfast radishes.

Fruit: 2 white peaches and a handful of gorgeous, tiny, bite-sized, unfortunately mealy to eat, dusky plums.

My mother's birthday celebration (which is a separate shop) and the zucchini (which I will make into my uncle's zucchini "chips") aside, the contents of this week's box (and a package of grated carrots) will be transformed into:

Sunday [“Raid” Meal]

Grated Carrot Salad with Dried Cranberry-Caper Vinaigrette

Grilled Sausages with Pepper and Onion

Wilted Mixed Greens (Kale, Swiss Chard, Beet and Radish Greens) with New Garlic

Monday [Wildcard but dinner party for my mom’s birthday]

Brie and Pickled Blueberry Grilled Cheese Finger Sandwiches

Summer Tomato Salad with a Yuzu-Kosho Vinaigrette, Mozzarella and Savory Nori Granola

Pappardelle with Corn Crema, Green Onions and Spicy Buttery Crab

Chocolate Cloud Birthday Cake with Whipped Cream

Tuesday [Pasta]

Tomato Salad with Sugar and Salt Pickled Radishes and Red Shiso

Spaghetti with Tomatoes