CSA Week 4
This week it was:
Whole Wheat Pasta
Parsley Pasta
Green Garlic (not pictured, sorry!)
Kaboko Cabbage
Mustard greens
Kale
Collard Greens
Strawberries
Raw Milk Havarti
Red Sour Cherries
White Cherries
Beets (also not pictured)
The cherries are sooooo good. So are the strawberries. They taste so different that the ones you buy at the grocery store, so much more flavor.
I made an amazing soup with roasted red peppers, white beans, and used the collard greens along with lots of garlic and some couscous. I had no idea what I was doing but it turned out so good!
CSA Weeks 2 & 3
Well I totally forgot to take a picture for week 2, but here’s what was included:
Salted Butter from organic, pasture raised dairy cattle
Spinach Linguini Pasta
Garlic Scapes
Green Onions
Nancy Leaf Lettuce (similar to a bib or buttercrunch)
Spinach
Honeyoye Strawberries
Goat Milk Feta
Sugar Snap Peas
Green Tomatoes
Bleu Cheese
Week 3 was:
It included:
Green Onions
Red Beets with tops
White Radishes
Garlic Scapes
Spinach
Romaine Lettuce
Strawberries
Garlic Chive Pasta
Rhubarb
Cherries
Cilantro
So far I’ve been pretty happy with the contents and everything has been really fresh. I could do without all the rhubarb though!
I Want My Uncle Sal!!!
to sum it up, go here:
http://scott.littlemeanfish.com/wp/?p=1575
I am currently on step 25, oh and its day 3 of this shit.
In the past 3 days while working on the “little” faucet problem, I had another plumbing problem arise. The stupid tub backed up and had 8″ of water sitting in it. After much plunging, cursing, chemicals, homemade remedies, and snaking, the drain still hasn’t budged. So I called a professional. He should be here in the morning.
Goodbye paycheck…hello pb&j for lunch and dinner for quite a while.
PS-Have I mentioned how much I hate home-ownership?! What was I thinking!??!?!
Man, Check Out All the Updates Lately!
I’m on a roll!
Here’s the offending burning “tree” before I hit it with the clippers. Yes, the burning bush had not been trimmed in about 5 years and had grown in this monstrosity (on the far right). This pic was taken a couple months ago, and it had grown very full of leaves (and a couple robin’s nests) and even taller than it was in this pic:
And after:
There may be no coming back from that trimming, we’ll see. My neighbor assures me that I didn’t kill it. Let’s hope so.
Speaking of neighbors, I have a 90 year old living to my right, and her daughter (who I’m guessing is about 65?), who looks freakin’ awesome and is in great shape. Anyhoo, she came over when she saw me cutting that thing down and helped me tie up all the limbs and haul them back behind the garage. She’s been so great and so helpful. Much more helpful than my own brother who lives with me! I came home the other day and she was weeding my hosta. Love that neighbor!
And here are my hydrangeas just blooming away. They’re small but they’re gorgeous.
More Yard Pics
Let’s try this one more time
Before:
After:
And here are the new hanging baskets I put up in the side yard:
And the new hydrangeas I planted. I pulled out some small pine trees cause they were looking sad and turning brown. I thought these were much prettier anyway! You can’t really tell in the pic, but one is a pretty purple and one is a bright pink. They won’t stay those colors, it will depend on how acidic my soil is, but they’re pretty right now:
I’m hoping they grow large enough to hide the neighbor. They only mow about once a month, its a disaster over there.
As Promised – CSA Week 1
So here is a pic of what was included in my CSA bag for week one:
Here’s the list of what was included:
Spinach on the stem (missing from pic)
Radishes
Cilantro
Leaf Lettuce
Pea Shoots (missing from pic)
Grassfed Blue Gouda
Bread (missing from pic)
Jonagold apples
Rhubarb
Chocolate mint
Mizuna
Pepper Havarti
The bread they ran out of, the other two items they just missed, but they will be made up to me this week.
I made a salad from the lettuce and mizuna (which is really good!) and the radishes and bleu cheese. The chocolate mint has been chillin’ in my iced tea and its really yummy. The rhubarb I gifted to my neighbor. She loves it and I can’t stand the stuff, so I’m glad she could use it.
I also made a millet casserole and a wheatberry salad this weekend which both turned out pretty good! Oh, and some Samosa brownies (you know, like the ever-so-addictive girl scout cookies? Baby steps…
Dandelion Picker 