Oh dear…it’s been a long time since I’ve done anything really fun with our CSA shares. My parents were up last weekend, and then I caught the cold mom had and have been nursing that this week. I will say, nothing fancy, yes, but lots of soup. Our share this week looks [...]

We’ve been a bit crazed here, at the little one acre. That happens sometimes–this life thing! At any rate, week 4 of our CSA involved a lucky-draw–lots of zucchini, beets, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, purslane (used in an egg-salad concoction last week)–all really good stuff. We purchased an additional 2 gallons of blueberries [...]

The title is a bit of a joke–we were originally scheduled to pick up our CSA share on Tuesdays, but now its switched to Saturdays, so, our produce “overfloweth.”
The zucchini and cabbage really made the share this week. I did a zucchini strips (veggie peeler-style) salad with sunflower seed dressing, caramelized some onions and [...]

Oh dear–we’ve been moved to Saturday pickup instead of Tuesday, so our Week 3 items already came in, hence, an early post on Week 2:
I love how the CSA allows us to try things we normally wouldn’t, like the 9-grain bread from Rayville Baking Company.
The strawberries, we sprinkled with sugar (macerated), and after they sat [...]

We signed up for a CSA this summer because we’re relocating parts of our vegetable garden closer to the house and didn’t have time to plant enough for summer eating and canning. The photo above shows last week’s offerings–mmmm…and sausage and bacon–what a treat!
We were able to make:

salsa
stir fried peas and pea shoots with [...]