so on friday we got our delivery from farm fresh to you. organic produce. we got some fruit (pears, tangelos), 2 avocados, 2 heads of napa cabbage, 1 bunch of collards, a head of green leaf lettuce, and a ginormous leek.
so this week i'll be making:
hearty wild mushroom stew over polenta with leeks braised in red wine and napa cabbage salad with buttermilk dressing
hazelnut-panko crusted trout with braised collard greens and a sweet potato (or parsnip)
jerk chicken and napa cabbage slaw with spicy cilantro dressing
as you may have noticed, i did cook one meal last week. i did not make the brazillian dish or the split pea stew. sam and i have been finding it difficult to go to the market.we have been subsisting off of healthy mexican food (chicken burritos with no cheese or fat on whole wheat tortilla) since he got sick (or rather got well). gotta get back into the swing of things! the CSA box certainly helps with that. i hate to see produce go to waste.
but i am going to check out a competitor's box and we'll get that delivered on tuesday of next week. i am hoping it's a better selection.
All the farm boxes I've seen or heard about can vary a lot from week to week, and season to season. I'm sure some are better than others, but I suspect that even the best ones can sometimes be disappointing, depending on which crops are in or out of season. Just be glad you live in a place where a lot of stuff can grow year round --- you should hear about the farm boxes that my mom used to receive in the dead of the winter. No local pears or avocados in New England in January!
ReplyDeleteI've never subscribed to a CSA myself, but I've heard it takes some getting used to, and sometimes forces people to be pretty resourceful about what to do with nothing but 10 pounds of beets, or whatever. (Duh---a borscht party!)
I am sooo inviting you to my borscht party! :)
ReplyDeleteI remember living in NYC and going to the Union Square Farmers Market right by my apartment during the winters of`97 and `98. I was appalled at the (lack of) choices. The selection seemed to be onions and cabbage and onions and cabbage. I was so spoiled from having lived in the Bay Area for so long.
And I think it's really fun to figure out how to use what you're got. Having those kind of restrictions can really focus you. But I checked the list for the new CSA I joined and I like the selection a bit more. It's a slight difference but it seems to be a better deal and more variation than the one I received last week. We'll see!!